# Create and name a step
URL: https://docs.awellhealth.com/docs/design-care-flows/create-and-name-a-step

> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://docs.awellhealth.com/llms.txt).





A step is the building block of a track: a **container** holding the actions that happen at one moment
for one group of people.

## Create a step [#create-a-step]

1. In the left sidebar of Studio, hover over the **New step** icon.
2. Click it, then either drag the step onto the canvas or click the canvas to place it.
3. Double-click the step, or click the three dots in its top-right corner and choose **Edit**, to open
   the step context menu.
4. Rename the step there.

<img alt="The care flow canvas, with the component palette on the left and a step holding a Message action" src="__img0" />

The palette on the left holds everything that can go on the canvas: steps, notes, agents, decisions,
code and timers.

Keyboard shortcut: **Ctrl + S** adds a step to the canvas.

## Name it for the person who didn't build it [#name-it-for-the-person-who-didnt-build-it]

"Step 4" tells a colleague nothing, while "Collect baseline patient-reported outcomes" tells them what
happens and roughly why. Care flows outlive the people who build them, and the step name is the first
thing a clinician sees in the activity feed.

## A step does nothing until it holds actions [#a-step-does-nothing-until-it-holds-actions]

Each **action** is a piece of content or work assigned to someone:

* an **in-app message**, say to introduce the care flow to a patient
* a **form**, say for a nurse to record baseline data
* a **calculation**, say to check age eligibility before continuing

## Next steps [#next-steps]

**Next:** [Duplicate steps](/docs/design-care-flows/duplicate-steps), which is faster than building a
near-identical step from scratch.