Power User Mode

Once you know where everything is, the words that taught you start to take up room. Power user mode is one switch for that moment. Turn it on from Settings, under Editor → Power User.

What it sets

Switching it on applies these settings once:

• Panel Layout: Toolbar, the palette in one strip across the top.
• Alignment Guides: on.
• Auto-Attach Arrows: on.
• Welcome Tour: marked as seen.
• AI Suggested Prompts: off.
• Minimal Chrome: on (see below).

Panel opacity is left as it is.

While the mode is on, its row in Settings shows Minimal Chrome beneath it, and a Set By Power User Mode list of the settings above with their current values. Change takes you to each one.

It is a starting point, not a lock. Change any of these afterwards and the mode stays on. Switch the mode off and every setting you left alone goes back to what it was before; the ones you changed keep your change.

Minimal chrome

Minimal chrome is a setting that only appears while power user mode is on. It hides the words and hints that teach the interface:

• the caption above the selection toolbar ("Selected Square");
• the captions under palette tiles;
• the text beside Search, Settings and the appearance button in the bottom bar;
• the "Tabs" label;
• panel titles and their ? buttons (the Explorer's ⋯ menu gains a Help row instead);
• onboarding notices: the modifier-key hint, the sign-in notice in the Explorer, and the theme-match suggestion;
• the bin in the selection toolbar, on a computer: press Delete or Backspace instead. Touch screens keep it.

The Editing / Viewing pill leaves the title bar and becomes a pencil or an eye at the start of the bottom bar. Click it, as you would the pill, to preview your diagram read-only.

Every control stays. Hover one for a second, or focus it with the keyboard, and its name appears. Screen readers hear the same names as before.