The tour and what is new

The tour

The first time the window opens, a short tour shows you around. Each card lights up one part of the window and darkens the rest:

1. the activity bar, which decides what the side bar shows;
2. the tree, every folder you added, on this machine or in the cloud;
3. Add a folder, the way in for a folder or a bucket;
4. the tabs, one per file, and splitting to read two side by side;
5. search, by name with ⌘P or inside every file;
6. settings: folders, cloud accounts, the cache, the plan and updates;
7. the ?, which shows the tour again.

Next (→ or Enter) and Back (←) walk the cards; Skip, the ✕ or Esc ends it. Once it has been shown it never starts by itself again. The ? at the bottom of the activity bar, Show me around, starts it any time.

What is new

Each release names what it brings. On a later start, the window points at the newest of them that you have neither used nor been shown, with one card: what it is, and Got it. At most one card comes up by itself a day, and none on the day the tour ran. Something you have already done is never pointed at.

What you have seen and used is kept on this machine, in ~/.objectexplorer/onboarding.json. On a server, what a signed-in person has used is kept by their email, so a card they dismissed in one browser does not come back in another.

Next: memory.