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Find your way around: rail, top bar and command palette

The main controls on every screen, plus ⌘K or Ctrl+K to do almost anything by typing.

Time
2 minutes
Steps
5

Every CurTask screen has the same frame: a narrow rail down the left, a top bar across the top, and a thin status bar at the bottom. Learn these once and you can reach anything.

  1. The rail: Home, Global Library, Processing queue, Settings and Account

    Step 1Use the rail on the left

    From top to bottom, the rail has:

    • Home (the CurTask logo): your projects, and where you left off.
    • Global Library: every paper you own. See The Global Library.
    • Inside a project only, the three lenses: Library, Analysis and Writing. See The three lenses.
    • At the bottom, the Processing queue (with a badge while papers are being processed; see The queue), Settings and Account.

    Hover over any icon to see its name.

  2. The top bar: breadcrumbs, search, save status, AI status and credits

    Step 2Read the top bar

    • On the left, the breadcrumbs show where you are; choose one to go back up.
    • In the middle, Search or run a command opens the command palette.
    • On the right: whether your changes are saved (All changes saved, see Autosave and working offline), whether the AI is available (AI connected; choose it to see what is sent to the AI), and your credits balance (choose it to open billing and usage; see Credits explained).
    • Then the bell for notifications, and your initials for the account menu: Profile, Security, Settings, Send feedback and Sign out.
  3. The command palette

    Step 3Open the command palette

    Press ⌘K on a Mac or Ctrl+K on Windows, or choose Search or run a command in the top bar. The Command palette lists what you can do on this page, your projects, pages to go to, preferences and help.

  4. Typing "storage" and running Settings: Storage

    Step 4Type a command and press Enter

    Start typing: a page, a project's name or an action, such as "import", "matrix", "dark" or "storage". Move with ↑ and ↓, press Enter to run, or Esc to close.

    The commands change with the page. In a paper you can star it or start coding it; in the matrix you can add a column or export it; in Writing you can turn on focus mode.

  5. Switching from Library to Analysis to Writing in a project

    Step 5Switch lens with the keyboard

    Inside a project, press Alt+1, Alt+2 or Alt+3 (on a Mac, ⌥1, ⌥2, ⌥3) to jump to Library, Analysis or Writing.

    Tip: Settings → Keyboard shortcuts lists every key, such as New project and Show or hide sidebar.

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