The interface

The rail, on the left

The rail lists what you are working on, with Diamonds at the top and Chats under them, newest first. The + on each head makes a new one, and dragging the divider gives one list more room.

Above them is the Everything row, a play, a pause and a round light for the whole app. Pause there and nothing runs anywhere until you release it.

Below the divider is your account, showing the name you gave, one status line, and what you have spent today, this week and this month. Start here covers the status line, and Details opens the diagnostics behind it.

One of those details is the build you are on. Press it for the release history, which shows what is planned, the build you are running, and every earlier build with its date and its place in a sealed record. You cannot go back to an older build, by design, because an old client holds faults since fixed and may read newer data wrongly.

The centre

The centre holds the conversation and whatever you are reading beside it. Panels here sit side by side and not over the chat, so you need not leave the conversation to look at something.

Width decides how many fit, from two at the narrowest to four at the widest, with one more for roughly every 380 pixels. Narrow the window and the panel opened most recently closes, and the chat is never the one to go.

• AI holds the conversation, and comes back whenever the centre would otherwise be empty.
• Web shows a web page, or drives one.
• Doc shows a file as its characters, with room to read and edit it.
• Preview shows what a file looks like, whether a picture, a PDF, or typeset pages beside their source.
• Email message opens one message beside the chat.
• Tools lists what Daimond can do.
• Compose is for writing mail, and only you can press Send.
• Graph draws your diamonds and the links between them.
• Terminal is a real terminal on your machine. See Your computer.

The dock, on the right

The dock holds what you pull from.

• Email holds your mailboxes.
• Workspace shows your files as a tree.
• Agents lists the helpers running now, with what each is costing. It stays out of the way until the first one runs.
• Spending shows where the money went.
• Pending lists what is waiting on you. Each row is answered with Do it, discussed, or dropped.
• Trash holds deleted chats and diamonds for thirty days.
• Social and Improve are covered in Social & proposals.

The top bar

The top bar carries the wordmark, a row of chips, and five buttons at the far right, which are the update chip, About, Link another device, this guide, and Appearance.

Every panel has a chip. Click one to open or close that panel. An open panel's chip is filled in, so the row reads as a map of what is on screen. Chips are grouped by zone in the order the zones sit, and each keeps its position so you can learn it.

A fresh account gets six chips, for Diamonds, Chat, Web, Workspace, Tools and Spending. The rest live behind the ⋯ chip at the end of the row. Click it for the gallery, which lists every panel there is, searchable and grouped by zone, with a pin on each row that puts it in the bar.

A dock chip is greyed when the dock is full, and its tooltip names the fix. Ctrl K opens any panel or setting by typing.

Appearance

Appearance is the last button on the right. It holds how Daimond looks and where things sit, and nothing about what it does.

• View. Simple shows names only, and Max puts the model, the cost and the context on every tile. A tile's own cog overrides it.
• Theme. Thirteen palettes in three bands. This guide wears whichever the app is wearing.
• Text size. Four steps. Only the type changes, so for a bigger interface use the browser's zoom.
• Side panels. How the dock tiles, and so how many panels it holds, whether four in one column, four at 2×2, or six at 2×3 or 3×2. Auto lets the window decide.
• Language and Currency. Billing is in US dollars whatever the figures show.

With a diamond open, the menu also offers to keep the current arrangement of panels with it, and opening that diamond again puts the panels back. It is saved only when you ask.

The Graph

Open Graph to see your diamonds drawn, with the links between them. Bring the pointer near a tile's edge and four anchors appear. Drag from one and a line follows, snaps to the nearest diamond, and makes the link when you let go.

A link can exist with no relation on it, which means only that the two are joined. Chips offer a Relation on the line that has just appeared, and Esc leaves it blank.

Let go over empty canvas and a box asks for a name, then a new diamond is made there, already linked. Nothing is written until you give the name.

Click a link to select it and press Delete to drop it. Its form carries Reverse, which writes a new record, so the note travels and the date does not. Organise lays everything out again to reduce crossings. From the keyboard, select a diamond, press L, and click the target.

By keyboard, and by ear

Tab moves through the controls, Enter or Space operates one, and Esc closes what is open. Every dialog, menu and sheet also carries a cross, sized for a thumb.

A dialog keeps focus inside itself and hands it back on closing. With a screen reader, an answer is announced once when it arrives instead of being recited as it is written. The window has named regions and real headings throughout. Anything you cannot reach or cannot hear is a fault, so say so on Social.

On a phone

Below the phone width the chips give way to the phone shell. The chat is the floor, and a panel rises over it as a sheet you can drag down again. The rail becomes a drawer, opened at the top left, with your account at the foot of it.

The chat’s head keeps its title, the permission chip and a ⋯ button, and Concise, Copy, Steps, Expand and Select are in the menu behind it.

The row along the bottom is the same chip row, scrolled sideways, and it carries every panel instead of six. The filled chip is what you are looking at, because on a phone only one thing is, so a chip takes you there instead of toggling.

Where a row of controls runs off the edge, it scrolls, and fades at the edge to say so. A diamond's page has a full-screen button that gives the whole display to the page.

Installed to the home screen, Daimond runs in its own window with no browser furniture and holds clear of the notch. It is the same page and the same stored work.