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id: MAC-1
title: The Mac window
group: On the Mac
summary: The sidebar and cards — each streamline a card, its open chats as tabs, the overview, Chats and its theme beside it
keywords: [mac, window, sidebar, card, tabs, chats, overview, sidecar, library, settings, style, about, vault, theme]
---

On the Mac, Streamliner is a sidebar beside a row of **cards**, in one window with a slim top edge: the window's buttons sit over the sidebar and the cards start right at the top. Every destination is a card: each streamline, and the Library, Usage, the Vault, Settings, Style, About and Report an Issue. It looks and works like manolab's other Mac apps.

## The sidebar

At the top, your organization's name and yours (or *On this device*). Then, in this order, with a gap between groups and no headings:

- Any **arrangements** you have kept, and *Keep This Arrangement* while one is on screen without a row. See Side by side, windows and arrangements (MAC-2).
- **Your streamlines**, in your organization's order. Each row shows the streamline's icon and name, and at the right edge the count of chats that need you and the unread ones. A click opens that streamline's latest chat in its card (or a new chat when it has none).
- Under each streamline, **its open chats**, newest first, each with its title, when it last changed and its last message. Click one to open it as the card's selected tab; the chat on screen is outlined. Right-click a chat for the same menu as its tab: **Rename…**, **Speak Replies**, **Copy Chat Reference**, **Close Tab**, **Archive Chat** and **Delete Chat…**.
- Right-click a streamline's row for its menu: a new chat, **Show Side by Side**, **Open in New Window**, **Show Finished Chats**, **Archive All Finished**, its **Theme** and **Edit in Library**, where you may. To start another chat beside the one you're in, use the **+** at the end of the card's tabs. A new chat appears in the sidebar once you type in it.
- **Discover** (coming soon), **Library** (on this device, and for an organization's owners and admins; it shows how many changes are staged; LIB-1), **Usage** (owners and admins of an organization), **Vault**, **Settings**, **Style** (with the name of the theme the app is wearing), **About** (with the build number, the shortcuts and this manual), and **Report an Issue** last (MAC-3).

## A streamline card

The card's header shows the streamline's icon and name, and how many chats are open, or *On site only* if it is. The card wears the streamline's color.

Under the header, the **tab band** holds the chats you have open, one tab each. The selected tab has a colored underline. Each tab carries one mark for the most urgent thing about it: an error, a confirmation that *needs your tap*, a form or sign-in waiting for an answer, something unread, the assistant at work, *waiting* on someone else, or done.

- **+** at the end of the band starts a new chat (⌘N).
- **⌃⇥** and **⌃⇧⇥** move to the next or previous tab; **⌘W** closes the selected tab.
- **Closing a tab never deletes the chat.** It stays in the streamline, open or done, and you can bring it back from **Chats**.
- When there are more tabs than fit, the band scrolls sideways.

## Beside the card

Icons at the right of the header open a panel docked to the card's edge, one at a time:

- **The overview** of the selected chat, such as the sale ticket (⌥⌘I). See The overview (ST-4).
- **Chats**: every chat in this streamline, with a search field (⌘F). Finished ones wait behind **Show finished**. Pick one to open it as a tab; a chat whose tab is closed says *Closed tab · click to open*. Its context menu has **Rename…**, **Copy Chat Reference**, **Speak Replies**, **Archive Chat** and **Delete Chat…** (also in the **Chat** menu).

If you may change the streamline's look (your own streamlines on this device; an organization's owners and admins), a **palette** follows them. It opens the streamline's **Theme** card beside it. See Appearance (AP-1).

## What to watch for

- A confirmation waiting in a chat whose tab is closed still counts on the sidebar row, and the chat is listed under it. Nothing that needs you is hidden. A row's count is what is listed under it: finished chats count only while they are shown.
- The layout is kept per organization and person: switching person or organization shows that person's own cards and tabs.
- When your access to an organization ends, its windows close and its layout is removed with the rest.