The welcome tour is a guided, interactive introduction to the editor. Rather than showing screenshots, it opens the real panels and menus one at a time, spotlighting each with a highlight ring and a short explanation. It takes about a minute, and you can leave at any point.
When it's offered
The first diagram you ever create opens with a centred welcome card: Show me around starts the tour, No thanks dismisses it. The offer appears once ever. However you answer (decline, skip midway, or finish), it won't come back on its own, and if you're signed in the answer follows you to every device. You can always replay it from Settings.
What it covers
The tour walks the editor's chrome in a natural order:
- The Palette: the floating panel every shape, arrow, and icon comes from.
- Selection modes: the dropdown that changes what your pointer does (Select, Hand, Eraser, and friends). See Selection modes.
- Shape categories: the Palette's category dropdown, from Favourites through Shapes, Tools, Icons, and Technology.
- The Explorer: browsing and organising your diagrams without leaving the editor.
- The element menu: the right-click menu where styling, links, notes, comments, and actions live.
- Tabs: pages within one diagram, plus the + button and the tab menu.
- Theme & Canvas: the paintbrush button that restyles the whole tab. (The button lives on every screen size; the tour step itself only runs on desktop.)
- Search (desktop): the Cmd/Ctrl+K panel that finds diagrams, elements, and help articles, and can run actions.
On a phone the tour is slightly shorter: it skips the Theme & Canvas and Search steps.
During the tour
- Each step shows a step counter, a title, a sentence or two of copy, and Back / Next buttons, with Skip always available.
- The highlight ring never blocks your pointer: you're free to poke at whatever is highlighted while the step is up. The tour opens real menus, so what you see is exactly what you'll use afterwards.
- Finishing (or skipping) closes anything the tour opened and returns you to a quiet editor, ready to work.
Replaying the tour
You can rerun the tour whenever you like:
Close Settings. The tour relaunches from the welcome card, exactly like the first run.
Finishing the rerun marks it completed again.
Prefer learning by doing? Your First Diagram builds a small connected flow from scratch, and Keyboard Essentials covers the shortcuts that make it fast.
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