The Explorer

Your whole diagram library in one place: how the Explorer is laid out, and where everything lives.

The Explorer is where all your diagrams live. It gives you a sidebar to navigate, a list view of whatever you have selected, and folders to group your work by project, customer, or topic. This page is the map; each section below has its own guide.

The sidebar at a glance

The sidebar is organised into a few sections so the thing you want is never far away:

  • Recent diagrams is the default view: the diagrams you touched most recently, the fastest way back into current work.
  • Shared with you collects diagrams other people have shared with you.
  • My Work is your own library, the Unsorted bucket plus the folders you create.
  • Team Spaces lists the teams you belong to and their shared folders, with your pending invites.
  • Image Gallery holds every image you have uploaded.
  • Saved Themes keeps your custom themes ready to reuse.

The main pane shows the contents of whatever you have selected, with the folder path as a breadcrumb you can click to jump back up.

The Explorer in two places

You will meet the Explorer in two forms, suited to two situations:

  • The full-page Explorer is the complete library view, modelled on a desktop file browser: a sidebar on the left, a breadcrumb and list of folders and diagrams on the right.
  • The floating Explorer panel is the compact side panel in the editor and the new-diagram flow, built for finding a diagram fast while you are mid-task.

Both work whether or not you are signed in. A guest sees the diagrams and folders that their own browser owns, and can sign in later to carry that work into an account.

New here? Start with My Work to learn folders, then lean on Recent day to day, it is the quickest way back into whatever you had open last.

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