Quick start: your first five minutes

1. Open visualOS

   Go to my.visualos.app in Chrome, Edge or Brave — or open the app on your iPhone, iPad or Mac. No account, nothing to set up. You land on your root canvas, called My Canvas.

2. Write your first note

   Click the Note tool in the left toolbar (or press N), then click anywhere on the canvas and start typing. Drag the note around; grab a corner to resize it. On iPhone and iPad, tap the + button instead and choose “Note”.

3. Create a folder

   Press B (or pick the Folder tool), click the canvas, and give the folder a name. Now double-click it — you’re inside, on a fresh canvas that belongs to this folder. The breadcrumbs at the top show your path; click any crumb to jump back.

4. Drag things into folders

   Go back up (click the first breadcrumb), then drag your note onto the folder and let go. It disappears from this canvas and now lives inside the folder. This drag-into-folder move is the heart of staying organized in visualOS.

5. Add a to-do list

   Press K, click the canvas, and type into the “Add a task…” row. Enter adds the task and starts the next one. Tap a checkbox to tick it off.

A few instant power-ups

• Zoom with Cmd/Ctrl + mouse wheel or a trackpad pinch; pan with two fingers or by holding Space and dragging.
• Paste anything. Copy an image, a URL or plain text anywhere and press Cmd/Ctrl+V on the canvas — visualOS turns it into the right kind of element.
• Undo everything with Cmd/Ctrl+Z. Even deleted folders can be brought back.
• Find anything across all folders with Cmd/Ctrl+F.