# Find your way around

Niv's window has three parts: the sidebar on the left, your open notes in the middle, and the note's context on the right.

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## The sidebar

At the top:

- **Home**: your day in one place. See Home.
- **Search**: search the text of every note (⌘K). See Search.
- **Graph**: how your notes connect. See The graph.
- **AI Chat**: your chats, and **New chat**. See AI chat.

Below that is **Notes**, the folders and notes in your folder. See Notes and folders.

At the bottom is the sync line: the Space's name and a word like "synced" or "offline". Click it to open the matching part of Settings. See Sync status.

⌘B shows or hides the sidebar. Drag its edge to make it wider or narrower.

## Tabs

Each open note has a tab. ⌘T opens a new tab and ⌘W closes the current one. Home, the graph and AI chats open in tabs too.

## The right rail

The rail beside a note shows its context, in six tabs:

- **AI**: a chat next to the note.
- **Links**: what this note links to, what links here, and connected notes. See Links and backlinks.
- **Outline**: the note's headings.
- **Tags**: the note's tags.
- **Graph**: the note's neighbourhood.
- **History**: its versions, and edits made at the same time as someone else. See Versions and history.

Open or close the rail with its button in the tab bar. ⌘I opens it on the AI tab, and closes it when AI is already showing.

## Find a note or run a command

Press ⌘O. Type part of a note's name to open it. If nothing matches, ⇧↵ creates a note with that name.

Type `>` first to run a command instead, such as **New folder**, **Today's note**, **Open graph** or **Open Space…**.

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## Menus

On macOS, the **File** menu holds **New Note**, **New Folder**, **Open Space…**, **Open Recent** and **Close Space**.

All shortcuts are in Keyboard shortcuts.

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