> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.ainomos.ch/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Finding your way > A tour of the Ainomos screen: the sidebar and its areas, the room switcher, search, the inbox, the account menu and the language switch. Every Ainomos screen has the same frame: a sidebar on the left, a top bar above the page, and the page itself. The sidebar holds the places you work, the top bar holds the room you are in and the tools that belong to you. This page walks through both, so you know where things are before you start. ## The sidebar From top to bottom, the sidebar shows: 1. **The room switcher.** The room you are in, with its data class. See below. 2. **New conversation.** Starts a new conversation in the chat of the current room. This is the way into the chat from every page. 3. **The areas.** The places you work, listed in the table below. 4. **The setup card.** For owners and curators, a small card such as "2 of 6 set up" with the next step for the room, for example **Next: write a rule**. It disappears once the room is fully set up. 5. **Recent.** Your conversations in the current room. Click one to open it in the chat. 6. **Your account.** Your name, with the account menu. Below it, your organisation's footer line and legal links, if it has set them. | Area | What it is for | | - | - | | **Knowledge** | Everything the room has decided, must follow and can cite. Its pages: **Import** to add files, **Decisions**, **Documents**, **Rules**, **Exceptions**, and **Graph**, which shows how they connect. | | **Connections** | The apps and agents that work with Ainomos. **Personal apps** are apps you use as yourself, **Organisation apps** have their own identity and work in a room, and **Governance** shows the rules every agent in the room runs under. | | **Dreaming** | What the background knowledge upkeep found and proposed, for one room or across all rooms. | | **Usage** | What the rooms use: answers, sources, knowledge health and decisions by status. It opens on the room you are in. **Knowledge Health** opens from here. | An area with pages has an arrow that shows or hides them. In the chat every area is open; inside an area, only that area is. The rows under **Knowledge** carry the room's numbers. A dot means something is new since your last visit, and an amber **!** beside **Knowledge** means something in the room waits for your decision. On an empty kind, owners and curators see **add the first**, and can choose **Not needed here** from the row's menu if the room does not need that kind. To fold the sidebar away, use the button at the far left of the top bar, or press Ctrl+B (Cmd+B on a Mac). On a phone the sidebar opens as a panel over the page. ## The room switcher and the breadcrumb Most of Ainomos works on one room at a time. The room switcher at the top of the sidebar names that room and shows its data class, such as **C1**. Open it to see your rooms as a tree, type into **Search rooms…** to find one, or choose **New Room** at the bottom to create or request a room. On pages that can look across rooms, such as **Usage**, **Dreaming** and the inbox, the list starts with **All rooms**. The top bar repeats where the room sits, as a breadcrumb: its parent rooms, then the room itself. Click a parent to move up. In the chat, the title of the open conversation ends the breadcrumb. ## The top bar On the right of the top bar you find: * **Search.** The field marked **Search …**. See below. * **Room details.** The sliders icon opens **Details of this room**: its facts, responsibilities and members, and the settings its owners may change. See [Rooms](https://docs.ainomos.ch/admin/rooms.md). * **Inbox.** The tray icon, with the number of open items across your rooms. It opens a short list where most items need only a yes or a no. **View all** opens the full inbox. See [Inbox](https://docs.ainomos.ch/chat/inbox.md). Notices, such as planned maintenance, appear in a strip above the page. An installation that is not your live one, such as a test installation, shows its name in the corner of the logo. ## Search Search finds decisions, rules, documents, knowledge entries and rooms across every room you can open. It searches only what you could open anyway. Type at least two characters. Results are grouped, with exact matches of a key or title first under **Direct hits**, and each result shows its type, its room and its status. Binding decisions are marked **binding**, drafts **Draft**. Click a result to open it. Press / or Ctrl+K (Cmd+K on a Mac) to jump to the search field, and Escape to close the results. On narrow screens the search field is hidden. ## The account menu Click your name at the foot of the sidebar. The menu shows your email address and: | Entry | What it does | Who sees it | | - | - | - | | **Sign-in security** | Opens the page where you manage your password and authenticator app, in a new tab. See [Signing in](https://docs.ainomos.ch/get-started/signing-in.md). | People with an Ainomos account that has a second factor set up | | **Settings** | Opens your organisation's settings. See [Settings overview](https://docs.ainomos.ch/admin/settings-overview.md). | Platform admins | | **Switch language** | Lists the languages, with a tick at the current one. | Everyone | | **Release notes on GitHub** | Opens the release notes. The version number follows the label. | Everyone, where the installation provides the link | | **Sign out** | Ends your session. | Everyone | ## Switching language Ainomos speaks English and German. Open the account menu and choose **EN** or **DE** under **Switch language**. The page changes at once, and Ainomos remembers the choice in this browser. Before you sign in, the sign-in page has the same two buttons. This changes only the interface. The language in which Ainomos writes rules, proposals and drafts is a setting of the organisation. See [Branding and language](https://docs.ainomos.ch/admin/branding-and-language.md). ## What depends on your role Some entries appear only when they apply to you: * **Import** under **Knowledge**: owners and curators of the room. * **Decisions** and **Documents** under **Knowledge**: people who may read them in the room. Your organisation decides whether members without a responsibility may browse them. * The setup card and **add the first**: owners and curators of the room. * **Settings** in the account menu: platform admins. * **Sign-in security**: Ainomos accounts with a second factor. The in-app help opens from the **Help** link on the sign-in page and from the help links beside some screens. ## Related * [Key concepts](https://docs.ainomos.ch/get-started/concepts.md) * [Asking questions](https://docs.ainomos.ch/chat/asking-questions.md) * [Rooms](https://docs.ainomos.ch/admin/rooms.md) * [Signing in](https://docs.ainomos.ch/get-started/signing-in.md) This documentation is built and hosted on [Mintlify](https://mintlify.com), a developer documentation platform.