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description: "A guided tour of Jotaid on iPhone — the drawer, the glass title bar, the pull-down filter panel, detail pages and the gestures that replace menus."
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# iPhone Interface

iPhone has no room for three columns, so Jotaid folds the same features into **one screen plus a drawer**. Everything you can reach on Mac is here; it just lives in a different place — [the three views](https://docs.jotaid.com/en/guide/canvas) are reached through the drawer behind the logo in the top-left corner.

## Quick Note — the Launch Screen

Jotaid opens on **Quick Note**, not on a list. It's a bare capture screen: a title, a body, a tag field, and a save button that stores the note and immediately clears itself for the next one. The full app is already loaded behind it — save or dismiss and you land in your notes. See [Quick Capture](https://docs.jotaid.com/en/guide/capture).

## The Title Bar

A floating glass capsule sits at the top of every main screen:

| Element | What it does |
|---------|--------------|
| Jotaid logo | Opens the left drawer |
| Project name | Opens that project's note in a sheet (the Inbox has none, so it stays a plain label) |
| **THEMES** / **NODES** | In Theme and Node view, opens that view's list as a sub-page |
| **+** | In the note list, returns to Quick Note to capture something new |

## The Left Drawer

Tap the logo — or swipe the dimmed area to close it again. Top to bottom:

- **Three view icons** — Note, Node and Theme. Tap one and the drawer closes on its own.
- **PROJECTS** — Inbox plus your projects; tap to switch scope, or add a new project (a [Pro](https://docs.jotaid.com/en/guide/pricing) feature).
- **SETTINGS** — at the bottom.

## The Pull-Down Panel

The note list has no visible search bar. **Pull the list down** and a panel appears above it holding:

- The **NOTES / TRASH** heading with a live count — tap it to switch to deleted notes
- A **search field**, scoped to the project or theme you're currently in
- The **filter funnel**, which opens View Options: sort by name / created / modified, ascending or descending, and filter by theme, node or tag. The funnel is highlighted whenever anything is off its default, and **Reset** in the sheet's top-left clears it.

## The Note List

Each row shows a title, a preview and its metadata. Touch replaces the Mac's menus:

| Gesture | Result |
|---------|--------|
| Tap | Opens the note full-screen |
| Swipe left | Delete, or **Move to** another project or theme |
| Long-press | Enters multi-select — a batch action bar appears for moving or deleting several notes at once |

With the drawer open, tap the dimmed area beside it to close it.

## The Note Page

Opening a note replaces the screen. A floating glass bar sits on top of it: a **back** capsule on the left, and a **⋯** menu on the right with **Preview / Edit**, **Smart Format** (AI formatting), **Note Info**, and **Theme Summary** on project notes.

**Note Info** opens a bottom sheet with the same content the Mac shows in its right-edge panel — the note's nodes, its potential links, and the notes it's related to.

## Theme View

The canvas is the full screen and everything is a gesture: **long-press a card** for its menu (colour, delete, move). The floating buttons on the right recentre the board, run **Tidy Up**, and add a card.

The capsule at the bottom is both a readout and a control: it counts loose cards, themes and grouped cards — and tapping it opens the canvas filter panel. To create a theme, open the **THEMES** sub-page from the title bar; new themes are created there, by hand or with **Smart Theme**.

## Node View

Node view opens on the whole network. A segmented capsule floats at the bottom to switch between **Graph** and **Matrix**; tapping any node — or any matrix cell — opens a bottom sheet with its details, which on Mac would be the hover panel.

The **NODES** entry in the title bar lists your concept nodes with their reference counts. Tap one to open its detail sheet, which carries three tabs:

- **Content** — the node's own note
- **Backlinks** — every note that mentions it
- **Relations** — its co-occurrences, predictions and AI suggestions

The title bar's menu also holds **Smart Node**, the AI-assisted way to draft a new concept node.

## Settings

Reached from the bottom of the drawer. The top of the page shows your Pro status (or an unlock card), followed by four groups:

| Group | Contents |
|-------|----------|
| General | [Appearance](https://docs.jotaid.com/en/guide/appearance), interface language, node appearance, import & paste |
| Intelligence | AI API keys, and which AI behaviours are on |
| Sync | iCloud sync status and diagnostics |
| Storage | Storage usage and cleanup |

## Next Steps

- [macOS Interface](https://docs.jotaid.com/en/guide/macos-interface) — The same features in a three-pane window
- [Quick Capture](https://docs.jotaid.com/en/guide/capture) — Quick Note, dictation, the Share Extension and templates
- [Shortcuts](https://docs.jotaid.com/en/guide/shortcuts-faq) — Gesture reference
