02 A Tour of the Screen

Let's take a light stroll around every corner of ObsiKO. Once you know what's where, everything else is a piece of cake! 😎

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▲ ObsiKO at a glance: the file tree on the left, the editor in the middle, the tool panel on the right.

Left — home to your notes, the file tree (left sidebar) 🗂️

Shows every folder and file in your vault in a tree structure you can take in at a glance. Even as folders get deep, vertical guide lines keep the indentation clear so you never lose your way.
Click a file lightly to open it, and click a folder to have it glide open or closed. Use the buttons above the file tree to expand or collapse everything at once.
You can drag and drop files around to move them, and right-click (or press and hold) to work all kinds of magic — rename, delete, create a new file, and more!
Drag a file from your computer onto the tree and it gets copied straight into your vault. → 07 Search & Navigation
Buttons at the very top of the sidebar 🧭: Dashboard 📊 (⌘⇧B) / Search 🔍 (⌘⇧P) / Command Palette ⌨️ (⌘P) / Graph View 🌌 (⌘⇧G) / Codex 📇 (⌘⇧K) — all your character and place cards in one spot!
File tree buttons below them: New… menu 📁 / New Document 📝 / New Mind Map 🧠
The New… menu 📁 doesn't just make folders! Press it and out unfolds New Folder · New Base (table) · New Project · PARA Board · Library · Ledger. → 12 Bases (Data Tables) · 12-2 Library & Reading Log · 12-3 Ledger
Organizing buttons next to them: choose a sort order ↕️ (by name, modified date, or created date) / jump straight to the file you're currently viewing in the tree 🎯 / toggle to expand or collapse all folders at once 🔽
Footer buttons at the very bottom: Open Folder 📂 (⌘O) / Export 📤 (⌘⇧E) / Settings ⚙️ (⌘,) → 23 Settings & Themes · 19 Export

Becoming a file tree pro 🏆

Bookmarks ⭐: Right-click a note you open often and choose "Add to Bookmarks" to pin it to the "Bookmarks" section at the very top of the tree. One click, wherever it is! (Right-click to unpin too.)
Folder colors 🎨: Right-click a folder and you'll find a row of color dots right inside the menu. Tap one of the 8 colors and you're done (the striped dot at the front means "back to the default color"). The folder name and even its child indentation guide lines get tinted with that color, so you can tell projects apart at a glance!
File count badge: The number next to a folder's name tells you the total file count, including subfolders.
Multi-select: ⌘(Ctrl)+click to gather items one by one, and Shift+click to select a whole range. Right-click for "Move n items…" or "Delete n items" to handle them all at once. (Press Esc to clear the selection.)
Move to folder…: Choose this from the right-click menu to open a picker with a folder search box, letting you move things precisely into deeply nested folders without any dragging.
Copy wiki link: Right-click → "Copy Wiki Link" to instantly copy a [[Note]] link and paste it into another note. ("Copy Path" is available too.)
Zip around with just the keyboard ⌨️: With the tree focused, use ↑↓ to move, →/← to expand/collapse folders (← also jumps to the parent folder), Enter to open, F2 to rename right there on the spot, and Delete (⌘⌫ on Mac) to send to Trash! And just type letters to jump to the item that starts with that name — it even understands initial consonants (e.g. ㅎㄱ → 한글).

Center — your wide-open field, tabs and editor 🏟️

Tab bar: Keep several documents open at once and hop between them, just like a browser!
Title bar: Change the file name quickly and easily right from the very top of the document.
Editor: This is where your wonderful writing comes to life! Feel the hybrid editing where wherever the cursor passes instantly turns into gorgeous formatting. → Curious about this hybrid magic? 05 View Modes & Korean Input

Bottom — your personal assistant, the status bar 📊

Wondering how much you've written so far? It kindly tells you character count, word count, link count, estimated reading time, and even manuscript-paper page count.
You can also check whether your writing is being safely saved right here!

Right — your all-purpose toolbox, the right side panel 🧰

Swipe left or use a single button to slide it open, and switch between tools with the navigation at the top of the panel. (Only one shown at a time!) - Outline (Table of Contents): See the skeleton of your writing at a glance → 09 Backlinks & Outline - Connections: The links and relationships this note points to (outgoing), and the notes that point back to it (incoming) — all in one panel! → 09 Backlinks & Outline - Tags: Neatly gather things by #tag, click one to expand everywhere it's used → 08 Wiki Links & Tags - Reference View: Keep another document, image, PDF, or video floating alongside as you write for easy reference. 'Open' button, zoom — all supported → 07 Search & Navigation - Image Search: Search free images (Openverse, Pixabay, Pexels, Wikimedia, Giphy) right in the panel and drag them into the editor or mind map! Hover for a large preview, use the HD button to save full resolution, and hit ↗ to check the original page → 03 Markdown Basics - Dictionary / Spell Check: A dependable Korean-language teacher for flawless writing! Insert definitions into your note and even listen to pronunciation → 06 Korean Writing Tools - Calendar: Browse notes by date, with today's schedule (to-do) timetable and alarms all in one place! (Use the Calendar+ button in the header to whip up today's note in an instant!) → 13 Calendar - Focus Timer (Pomodoro): Get into flow with 5–60 minute sessions! Goals and completion rate, plus a character counter too → 14 Focus Timer - Cheat Sheet: A quick reference table that even helps you insert Markdown syntax with one touch when you can't remember it (⌘⇧M). Use the search box at the top to find the syntax you want right away (favorites are searchable too), and hover over an item name to pop up a rendered preview. The Expand All/Collapse All buttons make it easy to skim through everything at once. - Activity Log: A time-ordered record of everything that happened in your vault (the clock button in the header also opens a note's version history!) → 21 Activity Log - Trash: Bring back deleted files → 22 Trash - Prompt Helper: Build well-structured prompts with blocks, plus agent rules and command harnesses, all in one place ✨ → 16-7 Prompt Helper - AI Agent: Call up your very own smart AI assistant 🤖 (full functionality on desktop; a chat-only mode where you just enter an API key also works on web and mobile) → 16 AI Agent · 16-8 Chat-only Mode (Mobile & Web) - AI Change History: For every agent run, see exactly what changed with a line-by-line diff — and revert anything you don't like! (Desktop) → 16 AI Agent - Writing Helper: Get a structure check on the note you're writing, plus questions that push your own thinking further and genre-aware editing suggestions ✍️ → 16-12 Writing Helper - Help: This very "ObsiKO 101" you're reading, right inside the app! Search to find what you need right away, and flip through it like a book with Back · Previous/Next Chapter buttons. Click a screenshot to see it larger. 🔍

Top — the View menu, for looking at things every which way 👁️

Press the View button (👁) at the right of the tab bar and a menu slides open. From here pick Source view (⌘⇧O) · Reading mode (⌘⇧V) · Zen mode (⌘⇧Z) — whichever suits your taste! → 05 View Modes & Korean Input
If the document has a special incantation (frontmatter) on it, extra items — Slide · Book · Web Novel · Messenger · Visual Novel — quietly appear lower in the same menu. → 18 Making Presentations · 18-1 E-book & Web Novel Viewer · 18-3 Messenger & Visual Novel Views
The doors into the mysterious Graph View (⌘⇧G) and the Dashboard (⌘⇧B) are at the very top of the left sidebar.

Settings modal — make ObsiKO your own ⚙️

Press the gear button at the very bottom of the left sidebar (⌘,) to open it. Themes, gorgeous fonts, keyboard shortcuts, and every other bit of ObsiKO's configuration — tune it all to your taste right here! → 23 Settings & Themes

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