Your first ten minutes

The tutorial

After a few questions about how you will use Hedwig, the tutorial opens on a practice inbox that never touches your real mail: a short guided quest, taught by doing. The practice world is shaped to what you told us.

Connect an account

Then connect Gmail or Outlook. Sync starts right away; your mail appears in the frames within moments. Add more accounts later from Settings → Accounts.

Three first moves

1. Stand a frame. Press the + among the frames, type mail, pick it. The frame rises into place.
2. Open an email inside the frame. The frame becomes the reader; the list stays beside it when the frame is wide enough.
3. Tell Hedwig something in the conversation (press C if it is hidden): “what needs a reply today?”

Where things are

• Boards home — every board you have, with live previews. A board is a workspace for a kind of day; most people run one or two.
• A board — opens on your conversation with Hedwig, with the board’s frames in the rack on its left. The stage, the board itself, is one step away.
• Settings — accounts, tags, appearance, connections, billing, and this manual.

Next: how the stage works.