# A tour of the app

> What each part of the raea app's sidebar is for: the workspace, New chat, the Inbox, Publish, Plugins, projects with their Feed, Compositions and Controllers, Chats and Settings.

The raea app has one sidebar, and everything you open shows beside it. This tutorial goes down the sidebar from top to
bottom and says what each place is for.

## The workspace

Everything you open shows to the right of the sidebar. At the top of it is your workspace. A workspace holds your
projects, your agents and your libraries, and nothing in it reaches another workspace. Switch workspaces from this
menu, or make a new one for each client.

## New chat

New chat is where work starts. It's one box. Write what you want made, in your own words, and pick a project under the
box. The workspace's primary, the AI you picked in Settings, reads it and starts the work, and the session appears in
the sidebar.

## Inbox

The Inbox gathers everything your agents make, across every project, newest first. Each card is the real thing: a
cut, a still, a sound, a board or a game. The number beside the Inbox counts what you haven't seen yet. The Inbox is the
best place to start your day.

When the Inbox or a feed gets long, fold it up: right-click past its cards, or open its settings, and choose
Consolidate. Everything but your pins becomes one summary on the timeline, which says how many, from when to when, what
kinds, who made them and how many are unread. It opens in place to its cards, a search still finds what's inside, and
Ungroup in its menu puts them back. What comes after shows as ever until you consolidate again.

## Publish

Publish is where finished work goes out, to the accounts you've connected, such as YouTube, LinkedIn or Bluesky. It
shows what's ready to post, what's scheduled, and how each post is doing.

## Plugins

Plugins lists everything raea can connect to: the agents that do your work, where your footage comes from, the networks
you publish to, generation services, and computers of your own.

## Projects

Under Projects, each project is a folder. Open one, and it has three pages. The Feed shows the project's work. The
Compositions page shows what each piece is made of. And Controllers holds the project's settings, which every agent
works to. In the Feed, the Agents button lists the project's agents, and what each one is working on. While an agent
works, a stop button sits beside it, in that list, beside its status in the Feed's chat and on the message it's
answering in the Inbox. Press it to stop that agent.

## Chats and Settings

Chats lists every conversation, in a project or about the workspace itself. At the bottom, Settings holds your account,
your agents, your libraries, your connections and your plan.

Next: [Review work and leave notes](review-and-notes.md).