Getting Started
Quick Start
Five minutes from first launch to an organized workspace. This walkthrough touches every core idea in ReticulOS.
1. Make your first capture
Launch ReticulOS — the widget appears floating at the top-right of your screen. Type or paste anything into the text area at the bottom and press Ctrl+Enter (or click Add to Collection).
- Paste a URL and it's saved as a link — purple border, one click opens it.
- Paste an image (a screenshot, say) and it's saved as an image.
- Anything else is saved as text.
Your capture lands in Home, the collection that always exists.
2. Summon it from anywhere
Click into any other app, then press Ctrl+Shift+\. The widget vanishes. Press it again — it reappears exactly where it was. This works system-wide, whatever you're doing.
Try one more: select some text in your browser with the mouse — don't copy it — and press Ctrl+Shift+=. The selection is captured straight into your open collection.
3. Create a collection
Collections are named buckets, one per context. In the widget, click the ＋ button next to the collection name, give it a name ("Research", "Snippets", whatever fits), and it becomes your active collection. Use the ◂ / ▸ arrows to move between collections — the one you leave open is remembered across restarts.
4. Open Reticulum
Click the gear icon in the widget's header and choose Open Reticulum. This is the full workspace: your collections as chips across the top, your cells as cards below.
- Switch between Grid, List, and Canvas views with the view switcher — try Canvas and drag a card somewhere. Its position is saved.
- Click the color droplet on a card to tint it one of eight colors.
- Pin a card and it moves to its own Pinned shelf at the top.
- Press Ctrl+V anywhere with something on your clipboard — it's captured instantly as a new cell.
5. Turn a cell into a note
Click the text of any cell to open the editor. Type / and pick a block — a heading, a checklist, a code block. Select text to format it bold or italic. Everything autosaves as you type; press Esc when you're done.