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The project you made earlier should be open. pensiv has two screens, broadly: home, where you pick a manuscript, and the project home you reach once you are inside a project.

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Home — which manuscript to open

The sidebar holds your account and the search box, and below them the workspace and All Projects. As manuscripts pile up, drag project cards into Collections to group them.

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Project home — where to pick up today

Under the greeting, four cards — New Document · New Sheet · New Plotboard · New Canvas — are fanned out, and below them come Recent files, Upcoming events, and My tasks. The tab is named “Home”, and closing every file brings you back to this screen.
The project home. The greeting, the four New Document · New Sheet · New Plotboard · New Canvas cards, and the Recent files row all fit in one screen. Sidebar included.
The project home. The greeting, the four New Document · New Sheet · New Plotboard · New Canvas cards, and the Recent files row all fit in one screen. Sidebar included.

The project home you get when you open a project. The creation cards and Recent files are visible together.

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The sidebar — the handles you run the manuscript with

Of the two icons at the top right, the funnel is the filter, which narrows the tree by conditions, and the magnifying glass is Search (Cmd/Ctrl + Shift + F), which opens the command palette in search mode. Below them is the project name. Press it to jump to another project or leave for home. The three rows that follow are passages across the whole project.
  • Graph — see how the items in the project are connected, on a single sheet.
  • Tasks — carries a number for the tasks you have not finished yet.
  • Notes — collects the ideas that are awkward to put into the manuscript. It carries a count too.
Hide the sidebar with the button at the top left of the window or Cmd/Ctrl + Shift + B. The button stays in the same place whether the sidebar is open or closed. While it is hidden, rest the pointer on the left edge of the window for a moment and the sidebar floats up briefly so you can pick a file. Expand it again and it comes back at the width you last set.

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Sections and the file tree

This is where the manuscript actually piles up. A new project has a Bookmarks section and a Project section. Drag the files you open often up into Bookmarks. More, at the right of the section name, makes a New Document, New Sheet, New Plotboard, New Canvas, or New Folder right there. Add Section adds another branch. For a trilogy, put one per part.
The sidebar alone. The Filter and Search icons at the top right, then the project name with Graph, Tasks, and Notes (Tasks and Notes with number badges), the Project section with its file tree, and Trash and Settings at the bottom, all in one frame.
The sidebar alone. The Filter and Search icons at the top right, then the project name with Graph, Tasks, and Notes (Tasks and Notes with number badges), the Project section with its file tree, and Trash and Settings at the bottom, all in one frame.

The sidebar in one shot. The passages at the top, sections and the file tree in the middle, Trash and Settings at the bottom.

Trash and Settings are at the very bottom. You can drag files you want to delete onto Trash, and Settings also opens with Cmd/Ctrl + ,.