Start/Where things are

• Where things are
  • A short map of Tine's main places, so the recipes in this Guide make sense on first read: the page in the middle, the left sidebar, the tab strip, the right sidebar, and Settings and Help. Each place links to the workflow that teaches it — nothing here is a rulebook.
• The middle: one route per pane
  • Each pane shows the page or PDF its active tab points to. Tine opens on the journal feed — one continuous, editable list of days — and the Journals item in the left sidebar always takes you back to it.
  • Everything you write is a block (one bullet). Blocks nest under other blocks to form the outline, and any block can carry a task, a date, a link, or its own id for references from elsewhere.
  • Press Ctrl+K at any time to jump to a page by name or to text inside any block.
• The left sidebar: your graph's contents
  • At the very top sits the workspace switcher — saved window layouts, covered in Workflows/Keep context visible. Just under it, the graph-name menu switches between the graphs Tine knows, with Open graph… and New graph… beside them — on desktop, Shift-click a graph row to open it in a second window instead of switching this one. Right-click a row for the same thing as a menu item — Open in a new window — along with Open here, Show in folder, Copy path, and Remove from this list. The row for the graph you already have open shows the two open actions greyed out, so the menu keeps its shape wherever you click.
  • Below the menu: Journals, then fold-up Favorites, Recent, All pages, and the Namespaces tree, where Project/Roadmap nests under Project. Favorites and Recent remember per graph whether you left them open or folded.
  • Favorites can be arranged without changing what Logseq sees: choose + New group, rename the plain-text label, then drag favorites or groups left/right to lift or nest them to any depth. Deleting a group keeps everything it held one level up. Tine stores that richer arrangement on an ordinary editable page while keeping config.edn :favorites as Logseq's flat list; Workflows/Find and revisit walks the safe path.
  • The + New page button at the bottom opens the same Ctrl+K box; a name that matches nothing becomes a page you can create. Press t l to fold the whole sidebar away, and t l again to bring it back.
• The tab strip: what's open
  • Every open page or PDF keeps a tab along the top, browser-style: click to switch, Ctrl+W to close. Middle-click anything that opens a page — a link, a search result, a bullet's dot — to park it in a background tab without leaving this one. PDF links open in a companion pane by default, and their tabs can be dragged between panes like page tabs. Tabs come back after a restart.
  • Tabs are a desktop feature — the mobile app hides the strip so one page or PDF route keeps the screen, with Back returning through its history.
• The right sidebar: parked context
  • Anything you want beside the current page rather than instead of it — another page, or zoomed into one bullet — goes to the right sidebar: Shift-click a link or a bullet's dot. Items there are live editors, not previews. Press t r to show or hide the whole sidebar.
• Settings and Help
  • The gear at the top right (or press t s) opens Settings: appearance, editor behavior, graph files and backups, and the remappable shortcut list.
  • Settings opens as a small dialog. The button beside its search box makes it fill the window, which is easier to read through; Tine remembers which size you left it at and opens it that way next time.
  • The ? button at the bottom right (or press Shift+?) opens Help: this Guide, the shortcut reference, and links out to release notes and bug reports.
• On a phone
  • Below a 640 px window width, either sidebar opens as an overlay on top of the current route instead of shrinking it — tap the shaded outside edge, press Esc, or use Android Back to dismiss. Split panes and the tab strip are desktop-only.
  • Reference/Platforms and mobile separates narrow-window behavior from native-app behavior and maps each platform's shipping surface.
• Where next
  • New here? Welcome to Tine walks the first hands-on minutes. To put these places to work — parking, pinning, splitting, and saving the layout — continue with Workflows/Keep context visible; Features/Tips & shortcuts is the compact shortcut map.