Tour of the Interface

Tour of the Interface

Apricity is a three-pane app with a top bar above it. Once you know what each region does, everything else clicks into place.

┌───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│  [logo] Apricity     🔎 Search…  ⌘K          Write  Drafts  🔔 🗑 ☀ ⚙   │  ← top bar
├──────────────┬───────────────────────┬────────────────────────────────┤
│   ROOMS      │      MEMORIES         │           DETAIL               │
│  (wings →    │  (list of drawers in  │  (the selected memory, its     │
│   rooms)     │   the current room)   │   content + metadata + edit)   │
└──────────────┴───────────────────────┴────────────────────────────────┘

The top bar

From left to right:

• Brand — the Apricity logo + name.
• Search box — full-text search across content and metadata. Focus it with ⌘K / Ctrl+K. See Browsing & Searching.
• Write — opens the form to file a new memory. See Writing & Editing.
• Drafts — your inbox of work-in-progress memories not yet filed. A badge shows the count.
• 🔔 Notifications bell — recently created/updated memories, with the originating model's avatar. See Notifications.
• 🗑 Trash — Recently deleted memories, with one-click restore. See Deleting & Recovering.
• Theme — Auto / Light / Dark menu. See Settings & Personalization.
• ⚙ Settings — the settings sheet (Display, Account, Notifications, Shortcuts, About).
• Tools — a power-user panel for MemPalace's MCP tools. Hidden by default; enable it in Settings → Display.

Pane 1 — Rooms (left)

A drill-down navigator, iOS-style:

• The top level lists your wings with a total memory count each. Wings that have tunnels show a small graph-edge glyph.
• Click a wing to drill into its rooms; a back chevron returns you to the wing list.
• Click a room to filter the Memories pane to that room.
• Click the expanded active wing again to collapse and deselect.

Navigating wings/rooms does not close the Detail pane — you keep your place.

Pane 2 — Memories (middle)

The list of drawers in the current room (or all memories):

• Each card shows a kicker (WING · ROOM), the title, a 3-line preview, and the creation date.
• A right-edge accent tint marks recently-updated memories (see Notifications).
• Sort by date or title (configurable default in Settings).
• Click a card to open it in Detail.
• Browse mode (F) maximizes this pane into an adaptive multi-column grid for scanning lots of cards at once.

Pane 3 — Detail (right)

The selected memory, in full:

• A metadata strip at the top: Drawer ID (click to copy), Date, Source, Author, plus Updated / Location when relevant.
• The rendered Markdown content below.
• Edit (pencil, or press E) switches to the inline editor; delete lives in the panel chrome.
• If the memory is bound to a tunnel, a chip shows the linked memory.
• Wikilinks ([[…]]) in the content are clickable; following one pushes a Back to previous memory bar so you can return.

Hover-reveal controls: the panel's maximize/close buttons stay hidden until you hover (a calm-chrome choice). On touch devices they're always visible. You can force them always-on in Settings → Display → Reveal panel controls on hover.

Empty states

• No memory selected → the Detail pane shows a "Select a memory" prompt.
• Empty palace → counters read 0; see Troubleshooting.

Next: Browsing & Searching.