Interface Overview

typealot's window is organized into a few clear areas.

The menu bar

Across the top are the File, Edit, View, Tab, and Help menus. On Windows the menu bar lives inside the window (with the minimize, maximize, and close buttons). On macOS the menus appear in the native Mac menu bar at the top of the screen — though you can also show an in-window menu bar from Options if you prefer.

The sidebar

On the left is the sidebar, which holds your workspace. It has an optional Tabs section at the top (a pinned list of open documents) followed by the file tree of your open folders. Toggle the sidebar with Ctrl+B, and drag its right edge to resize it (double-click the edge to reset the width).

Tabs and the editor

To the right of the sidebar is the tab strip — one tab per open document — and below it the editor, which changes to suit the file you're editing (code, Markdown, PDF, image, and so on).

The status bar

At the bottom, the status bar shows context about the current document: line and column (Ln 12, Col 4), a selection count, a word count, or the current page for PDFs.

The outline panel

For Markdown documents you can show an Outline panel on the right that lists the document's headings — toggle it with Ctrl+Shift+L.

Fullscreen

Press F11 to enter fullscreen, which hides everything but the editor. Press F11 again to exit.