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# Finding Your Way Around (Mobile)

Where everything lives in TempoWeave Mobile — the layouts, the panels, and the touch gestures.

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### Two layouts, one app

TempoWeave Mobile adapts to your screen:

* **Tablets (iPad, Android tablets)** — panel buttons run down a **side rail**; tapping one slides its panel in from the side, next to your draft.
* **Phones** — the same buttons sit in a **dock along the bottom**; tapping one slides its panel up as a sheet.

Same features, same names, different furniture. This guide says "panel" for both.

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### The top bar

Left to right:

| Control      | What it does                                                                 |
| ------------ | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **☰**        | The main menu — file operations, cloud, account, settings (see below)        |
| **Filename** | The active draft                                                             |
| **✎ Pencil** | Structure editing mode — tap cells in the threading, treadling, or tie-up    |
| **🖌 Brush** | Color mode — the palette appears; tap a swatch, then paint warp/weft threads |
| **↶ ↷**      | Undo / Redo                                                                  |
| **✋**        | Pan mode — one-finger drags scroll the draft instead of editing              |

With neither pencil nor brush active you're in **read mode** — safe to handle the screen without changing anything.

Below the top bar, each open draft has a **tab**; tap to switch, **✕** to close. Closing the last one returns you to Browse Drafts.

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### The ☰ menu

* **ACCOUNT** — **Sign In…** (unlocks your licensed features and your cloud).
* **FILE** — **Browse Drafts…**, **Open Local Draft…**, **New Draft…**, **Save**, **Save As…**, **Export WIF…** (see the Drafts & Library guide).
* **PROJECT** — **Project Info…** (title, notes, sett, yarn calculations, tags), **Snapshots…** (named version history).
* **CLOUD** — **Share Pattern…**, **My Patterns…**, **Browse Public Patterns…**, **Open Shared Pattern…**.
* **APP** — **Settings…**, **About TempoWeave**.

Tap anywhere outside the menu to dismiss it.

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### The panels

**Home** — the everyday basics in one place: mode, navigation, and quick actions.

**Project** — project-level info: sections, info & history.

**Design** — draft structure: tie-up editing and style, liftplan/tie-up conversion, warp & weft style, transforms, layout.

**Tools** — the workhorses:

* **ASSISTANTS** — Weave Assistant and Thread Assistant.
* **DRAWING TOOLS** — Freehand, Straight, Point, and Line for the pencil mode.
* **ADD / REMOVE THREADS**, **SELECTION**, **TABBY**, **OPTIMIZE**, **ANALYSIS** — insert/delete threads, copy/paste selections, add tabby, shaft/treadle reducers, float check, and friends.

**Yarns** — the **Yarn Catalog** (real yarn lines with colors, photos, and sett suggestions), **My Yarns**, the **gradient tool**, color painting, and palette position.

**View** — how the draft is displayed: view styles, **Fabric view**, **3D interlacement**, zoom options.

A panel stays open while you work; tap its button again (or the ✕) to close it.

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### Touch gestures

| Gesture                             | What it does                                                                  |
| ----------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Pinch**                           | Zoom the draft in or out                                                      |
| **Two-finger drag**                 | Pan (scroll) the draft — works in any mode                                    |
| **One-finger drag on the drawdown** | Pans in read/pan mode; edits in pencil/brush mode                             |
| **Drag on the warp/weft headers**   | Scrolls the draft (headers never edit by drag-scroll)                         |
| **Tap**                             | Edits a cell (pencil), paints a thread (brush), or selects a swatch (palette) |

If you keep editing when you meant to scroll: tap **✋** to switch drags to panning, or leave pencil/brush mode.

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### The palette strip

In brush mode a **color palette** appears — across the top or down the right edge (your choice in Settings). Colors already used in the draft are gathered at the start of the strip, then the full palette follows. Tap a swatch to make it the active color — **its name (and yarn line, for catalog colors) appears beside the strip** so you know exactly what you picked.

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### App settings

**☰ → Settings…** holds app-wide preferences: palette position, Browse-on-launch, display options, and more. Draft-specific settings (sett, title, notes, tags) live in **Project Info**; Weave and Thread Assistant settings live inside each assistant's ⚙.

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*See also: TempoWeave Mobile: Quick Start and Your Drafts & the Library.*