Home and your root node

Home is the canvas inside your own root node. It is where you arrange your nodes and keep doors to places you want to visit. Its name is your username, shown with @.

The large node in the middle represents the place you are inside. At home, that is your root node. It has your node's colour and a home symbol. You can use its menu to change its options, colour or sharing, just as you would on another node.

Home is a place you can build#

You can make nodes, put more nodes inside them, and connect things on the same canvas. For example, make a node called Weekend ideas, enter it, and arrange places to visit inside it. A pin can point to a shared node elsewhere while staying among your own ideas.

Home is your outermost place. Zooming out or pressing Escape there keeps you at home. To visit the public catalogue, use the logo's Nexus option or a pin to a Nexus node.

Unshared work and public sharing are different states. Check Sharing before making your root node public: the public share includes what is inside it. For information about how Glob Social handles data, read the Privacy Policy.

The panel beside Home#

On a computer, Home shares the window with the adaptive side panel. Its canvas tabs are Listr, Chat, Wall, Media and Feed. Listr keeps notes and saved places close to the canvas. Feed gives you a reading view of public posts. Opening Pixl Studio or Glob Studio changes the tools beside the same Listr entries.

Listr is the fresh desktop canvas view's starting tab. Entering a node can bring Wall forward for the place you are in, and leaving returns to Listr. At Home, any Wall view concerns your root node. An unshared root can show The wall opens here once this node is shared. You can use Listr or another tab without sharing Home.

On a phone, the signed-in app starts with Feed filling the screen. Choose Show canvas to see Home or the place you last entered. Show Feed brings the full-screen panel back, which can retain the tab you selected. The canvas stays loaded underneath. Panels and windows explains resizing, automatic hiding and the changing tab rows.

Use the logo to get your bearings#

The Glob logo in the upper-left corner is a navigation control.

• Hover over it, or focus it with the keyboard, to reveal the depth rings.
• Each ring represents a level in your route. Its label names the node, and its colour follows that node.
• Choose a ring for an earlier level to return there.
• Choose the centre logo to return along your home route and reset the home view.

The reset recentres the view and resets its zoom. It does not rearrange your nodes. You can use it while you are already home if you have panned away from the middle.

On a touch screen, your first tap opens the rings so you can choose one. A second tap on the logo performs the home action. The rings stay open briefly after your finger leaves; with a mouse, they stay open while the pointer is over them.

Go to the Nexus#

At home, open the logo's rings and choose Go to the Nexus on the dashed ring. You leave your home and enter the shared public place. The Nexus is also an outermost place: zooming out at its root does not lead to another canvas.

Use the logo to return. You can also follow a pin to a topic directly, without starting at the Nexus root. See The Nexus.

Inside another node#

Zooming into an ordinary node opens its own canvas. The large centre node tells you where you are. The background takes a tint from its colour, so a blue node leads into a blue-tinted canvas.

The centre node represents the existing node; it is not a second copy. You cannot drag it, delete it from its own inside, or enter it again. Outside the Nexus, you can draw a link between an ordinary node and this centre node.

Your route gains depth rings as you go further in. Zoom out through the exit gesture, press Escape when you are not typing or using another open control, or choose an earlier ring to leave. Returning restores the earlier canvas view.

When you enter someone else's node, the route can show the owner's name, such as @someone's Garden. Council-owned places use @council; Nexus places use @nexus. The owner and the node's access rules determine what you can change there.

If you arrive somewhere unexpected#

A direct node link can open that place instead of home. Use the logo and its rings to orient yourself. If a node becomes unavailable, return to home and try its link again later; a pin cannot restore access to a node that has been withdrawn or removed.

The round Home control near the bottom opens the Home toolbar. It is separate from the upper-left logo's return action.