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The sidebar is the library. ⌘S (or ⌘, or the button in its header) hides and shows it; drag its edge to resize it. From top to bottom: The wordmark and the hide button. Search — ⌘F from anywhere. See search. Three rows, numbered so the left hand can reach them while the right is on the mouse: All Documents (⌘1), Timelapse (⌘2) and New Document (⌘3). The first two also answer to ⌘P and ⌘D, the third to ⌘N. Recents — the six documents you opened most recently, newest first. Starred — documents you have starred, from the right-click menu. The section appears when there is at least one. Documents — the folder tree, with a count. It starts collapsed on a fresh install, because All Documents is the better way to browse and the sidebar stays calmer without it; open it once and it stays open. Hovering a folder swaps its count for a + that makes a new document inside it; the arrows button in the header sorts everything by last edited, name or date created. Folders remember whether they are expanded. Shelf — documents set aside, collapsed, with a count. Present only when something is on it. Tags — every #tag in the library with a count. Click one to filter; the tags page explains. The footer — the library folder’s name, the number of documents, and a gear for Settings. Hover any document row for a moment and the time it was last edited appears.

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Right-click on a document

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Right-click on a folder

New Document Here, New Subfolder…, Rename…, Reveal in Finder, Shelve (the whole folder, structure intact), and Move to Trash.

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Undo

⌘Z undoes text edits first. When the editor has nothing left to undo, the same key reaches the library’s own history: a document you created by accident, a rename, a move, a duplicate, a trip to the Trash, a shelving. ⇧⌘Z redoes.

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Small things

Rows slide in and out as documents come and go — a new one, a shelved one, a search that ends. Counts tick between values rather than flashing. Stars spring in. The search field brightens while it has the keyboard.