Make a map, find your way around the window, and learn where the help is. Read this page first; the rest of the manual is there when you need it.
Make your first map.
A map is a tree of short labels, called nodes, that grows from one root. Three keys build most of it.
Open Kloni and press Return to choose New Map. The root is ready for you to type.
Type a name, such as Rome, four days.
Press Tab to add a child under it, and type a label.
Press Return to finish the label, then Return again to add a sibling beside it.
Use the arrow keys to move between nodes, and ⌘Return to edit the one you're on.
A line at the foot of your first map shows these keys until the map has five nodes.
Other ways to start
The Welcome screen also offers Try Sample Maps, which opens the templates, and Take the Tour. Reopen it from Help › Welcome to Kloni.
⌘N or the + at the end of the tabs makes a blank map from anywhere.
⌘⇧N opens the twelve templates: SWOT Analysis, Project Plan, Meeting Notes, Weekly Review, Problem Analysis, Book / Essay Outline, Decision Review, Kanban Board, Pros & Cons, Org Chart, Feature Map and Learning Roadmap.
⌘⇧U makes a map from a web page, a video or a file. See Importing.
Saving
You don't need to save. Kloni saves about two seconds after each change, and again when you switch tabs, leave the window, close a tab or quit. ⌘S saves at once, and next time you open Kloni your tabs come back. See Files on disk.
Find your way around the window.
Kloni is one window, with a pane on the right when you open one.
The library column on the left, the map in the middle, the top bar above.
The library column
A switch at the top of the column chooses what it shows:
Switch
Shows
Key
Tasks
Open tasks from every map, in lists such as Today and Not planned, plus the Done log. See The Tasks lists.
Maps, labels and notes across the library. See Search.
⌃⇧4
Above the switch, the Space menu picks which part of your library all three show, once you have Spaces to choose from. The gear beside it opens Settings (⌘,).
⌃⌘S hides and shows the column. Drag its right edge to resize it. In a narrow window it starts hidden, until you show or hide it yourself.
Tabs
Each map you open gets a tab at the left of the top bar, with its own place, zoom and undo history. ⌃Tab and ⌃⇧Tab move between tabs, and ⌘W closes one.
Double-click a tab to rename the map. This renames its file, not its root node.
Drag tabs to reorder them.
Right-click a tab for Rename, Suggest Map Name…, Save, Duplicate, Share…, Pin Tab and the ways to close.
Right-click or press and hold the + for New from Template….
Review, the full-window Tasks table (⌥⌘T), sits first in the strip while it's open.
The top bar
The buttons on the right open panes and switch views:
Button
Does
Key
Note
Opens the selected node's note beside the map. Canvas only: the Document shows notes in place.
Panes dock on the right and the map narrows to make room. One shows at a time: opening another replaces it, and clicking the lit button closes it.
Full screen
⌃⌘F or the window's green button gives the map the whole screen. The top bar, library column and zoom controls fade, and come back while you point at them, while the keyboard is in them or while one of their menus is open.
Also: turn the fading off under Settings › Appearance › Fade controls in full screen. It never fades with Increase Contrast on.
Get out with Esc
One press of Esc closes whatever opened last: a menu, a popover, a dialog, a pane, the search field. Keep pressing to work your way back to the map.
Get help inside the app.
The Help menu holds it all:
Item
What you get
Welcome to Kloni
The first screen again.
Getting Started
A 23-step tour in the live app. Each step waits for you to do what it teaches.
Application Map
A read-only map of every feature, with notes.
Keyboard Shortcuts (⌘/)
The full list, in Settings. It's also on the Shortcuts page.
What's New
The notes for each release. They also appear once after an update.
Send Feedback…
A form for bugs and ideas. It includes basic system information unless you turn that off.
Privacy Policy
Opens the policy in your browser.
Find a command
Press ⌘⇧P to open the Command Palette, type a few letters of anything Kloni can do, and press Return. Each command shows its shortcut, and your last five commands wait at the top.
The palette finds commands by any word in them.
The palette runs commands. To jump to a map or a node, use Go to (⌘⇧O).
Also: with Apple Intelligence, type what you want as a sentence. See Apple Intelligence.
How this manual works.
Each page stands on its own: Think builds a map, Detail fills its nodes, Do gets the tasks done, and Shortcuts and Settings are the reference.
Each page gives the main way to do something in the text and the others on a quiet line marked Also. Notes marked On iPhone say how the same thing works on the phone.
