How to Blur monday.com Boards and Client Data When Screen Sharing

To hide item names, person columns, and budget numbers in monday.com while you present, use a browser blur extension like BlurFirst to region-blur the colorful columns and element-blur individual cells before you share your screen. The blur is painted into the page as real pixels, so it survives Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, Loom, and OBS. monday.com runs in the browser, so BlurFirst covers the left workspace nav, the board's groups and columns, and the item's updates panel.

What to hide in monday.com before you present

A monday.com board packs client names, owners, and money into one bright grid, and it is easy to forget how much a single screen reveals on a cross-company call or a recording. Cover these first:

• Board and group names — the colored group headers like "Closing this month" or "At-risk accounts" that summarize status at a glance.
• Item names, the first column, which usually names the client, deal, or project.
• Person columns, whose avatars show exactly who owns each item.
• Numbers and budget columns — deal value, cost, hours — often the most sensitive figures on the board.
• Status columns, the colored labels ("Stuck," "Working on it," "Done") that reveal where things really stand.
• The left workspace nav, which lists your other boards and dashboards by name.
• Updates and comments, the conversation thread that opens when you click an item.

The colorful grid — and why columns scroll sideways

monday.com's signature layout is a wide, color-coded grid. That look is friendly, but it also means sensitive columns can sit off-screen to the right until you scroll — and then appear suddenly on a shared call. Plan your blurs for the whole width, not just what is visible when you start.

Groups and the Main Table

The default Main Table view stacks items under colored group headers. Region-blur a group header when its name is telling, or region-blur a whole column — Person, Numbers, or Status — to hide it down every group at once.

Columns that scroll horizontally

Because columns scroll sideways, scroll all the way right first and blur the budget or person columns there before you present, so nothing sensitive slides into view mid-demo. A saved profile keeps those blurs anchored as you scroll back and forth.

Kanban, Timeline, and Dashboards

Switch to Kanban and item names move onto cards — element-blur those. On Timeline and Gantt, region-blur the date bars. On a Dashboard, element-blur the number and chart widgets that total revenue or workload.

The item card and updates

Clicking an item opens its card with the Updates thread. Element-blur the updates, or specific column values inside the card, so you can open an item without exposing the discussion.

1. 1

   Open the board and scroll right

   Load the board you will present and scroll horizontally so every column, including the budget and person columns, has been on screen.

2. 2

   Start blurring

   Press Ctrl/⌘ ⇧ Y to open BlurFirst on the page.

3. 3

   Region-blur whole columns

   Drag a rectangle over the Person, Numbers, or Status column so it stays hidden down every group; the box stays anchored as you scroll.

4. 4

   Blur group headers and the nav

   Region-blur any group header whose name is revealing, and cover the left workspace nav so other board names stay private.

5. 5

   Element-blur item names and updates

   Click an item name to hide just that cell, or open an item and element-blur the Updates thread; click again to reveal.

6. 6

   Scan for PII

   Run Scan (Pro) to auto-detect and blur emails, phone numbers, and API keys in item text and updates — locally, with nothing leaving the browser.

7. 7

   Save a per-site profile

   Save the layout as a per-site profile (Pro). monday.com re-renders as a single-page app when you switch boards or open items, and the profile re-applies your blurs afterward.

8. 8

   Keep panic ready

   If a client's number appears mid-call, press Ctrl/⌘ ⇧ H to blur the whole board instantly.