A tour of the interface

Once your vault is open, Myne is a single window with a few fixed regions. This tour names each one so the rest of the guide can refer to them without re-explaining. From left to right and top to bottom:

The left sidebar

The left sidebar holds two things:

• The vault-switcher chip at the top shows which vault is open. If you keep more than one vault, this is where you switch between them; see Multiple vaults.
• The note tree below it lists your notes and folders. Select a note to open it; this is where you create, rename, move, and organize notes.

The tab strip and editor

The center is where you read and write. Notes open in tabs along the top, and you can split the pane to put two notes side by side. The editor itself fills the rest of the space: plain markdown, with autosave handling persistence (see Your first note).

In the top-left chrome, next to the sidebar toggle, two arrow buttons walk through the notes you have visited: navigate back (⌘[ / Ctrl [) and navigate forward (⌘] / Ctrl ]). Each greys out when there is nowhere to go.

The right sidebar

The right sidebar surfaces the connections to the note you are reading:

• Backlinks: other notes that link to this one.
• Unlinked mentions: notes that name this one without linking to it.

How these work, and the rest of Myne’s linking and search tools, are covered in Find & connect.

The bottom bar

The status bar along the bottom carries small, persistent controls and readouts:

• Local-only · not synced: the honest state of your notes. Myne today runs entirely on your device; nothing leaves it.
• Save status: shows “Saving…” while a save is in flight, so you can see autosave working.
• Workspace chip: shows the active named workspace and lets you switch between, rename, or save the current layout as a named workspace.
• View mode: shows the focused note’s mode (Live, Reading, or Source) and cycles through them on click; see View modes.
• Views: opens the saved views surface.
• Graph: opens the graph view of your notes and their links (also ⌘⇧G).
• Settings: the gear opens settings (also ⌘,).
• Lock vault: locks the vault immediately and returns to the Unlock screen.
• Word count: the document-statistics readout for the current note (words and characters, with the full breakdown on hover); it follows your selection when you have one.

Right-click anywhere on the bottom bar to hide or show individual items — each readout and control above can be turned off. Your choices persist with the vault.

The command palette

Press ⌘K (or its alias ⌘P) to open the command palette, a searchable list of actions like locking the vault, opening settings, showing the graph, importing an Obsidian vault, and managing templates. It is the fastest way to reach anything that isn’t a click away.

Shortcuts

Most of these are defaults you can change: Settings → Hotkeys lists every rebindable command and lets you record your own chord (see Custom hotkeys). The values below are the shipped defaults. Two groups are fixed and cannot be rebound: the editor-formatting shortcuts (bold, italic, headings, lists, folding) and Ctrl Tab for cycling tabs.