Finding your way around.

Studio has several views of your work and several places to find tools. Start with Graph when following the desktop instructions below. The phone layout has its own controls.

Hover a desktop icon to read its tooltip. Some controls also have an accessible name that is more descriptive than the tooltip: Assistant, for example, is the toolbar control named Toggle Assistant.

#Find the control you need

In Graph, the floating toolbar starts near the top center; drag its grip to move it. The library opens as a tall left panel, and the view dock floats at the bottom center. Browser has a horizontal section bar at the top. Settings opens a centered panel with a left sidebar. The toolbar's robot-shaped Assistant control opens Penny's input near the bottom center, with its chat control inside the input bar. Panel sizes and the toolbar's position can differ between workspaces.

Switch views — floating bottom-center view dock. Labels sit below the icons. It contains Settings, Browser, Lab, Graph, Blocks, Story, and Timeline. Choose Graph to return to the node canvas. Lab depends on account access. If the dock is auto-hidden, move to the bottom edge and use Pin dock to keep it visible.

Add a node — tall left library panel. Its collapsed trigger sits at the left edge of the canvas. Open Show node library, then use the Library selector to choose Nodes and search for an operation. The selector also offers Projects. In Graph, Tab opens the node search when you are not editing a field.

Find existing work — Browser. Browser fills the workspace, with a horizontal section bar at the top. Its sections are Outputs, Nodes, Projects, Templates, Files, Tutorials, and Playbooks. Templates depends on account access. Use Back to leave Browser.

Use graph tools — floating, movable graph toolbar. It starts near the top center. New Project, Save Project, Open Projects, and Run Graph handle project work and the selected nodes. More Options reveals tools including Minimap, Project Spend, Drawing Canvas, and Project Variables.

Ask Penny — graph toolbar’s Assistant control. Assistant opens Penny for graph work; Cmd/Ctrl+J toggles it. Penny's input opens near the bottom center, with a chat control inside the input bar. Lab has its own chat interface.

Change settings — Settings. Open it from the dock or toolbar, or use Cmd/Ctrl+,. A centered panel has a section sidebar on the left and the selected section on the right. Desktop sections include Account, General, Storage, Connectors, Integrations, Variables, MCP, and Developer. Admin appears for instance administrators.

The Station toolbar control opens Station mode for a saved project. That mode has its own panel and mode bar; it hides the usual graph toolbar and view dock. Stations explains that workflow.

#Switch views and return to Graph

The dock's number keys follow this order:

Key	View	Use it for
1	Browser	Browse existing work and resources
2	Lab	Create through conversation, when available
3	Graph	Build and inspect a node workflow
4	Blocks	Work with supported operations as blocks
5	Story	Plan scenes and shots in a storyboard
6	Timeline	Arrange clips and sound

Choose Graph to return to the canvas. Clicking the active overlay's dock button also closes it and returns to Graph. Switching views does not make a new copy of the graph. Lab conversations and canvas items have their own state; Choose where to work explains that distinction.

#Find nodes, projects, and results

The left library is a quick way to add a node. Its Library selector switches between Nodes and Projects, so check the current label before searching.

Browser → Nodes is another way to browse operations. Browser → Projects finds saved projects, and Browser → Templates finds reusable starting workflows when templates are available on your account.

Use Browser → Outputs to inspect node results from the current graph. Use Browser → Files for your Files library. A node result and a file you have kept in that library have different roles; see Files and results.

#Move around and select nodes

These gestures apply to the graph canvas:

Goal	Desktop control
Pan	Scroll with a trackpad, or drag with the middle mouse button
Pan from empty canvas	Hold Cmd/Ctrl and drag
Zoom	Pinch on a trackpad, or hold Cmd/Ctrl while scrolling
Select a node	Click it
Add nodes to the selection	Shift-click more nodes
Select an area	Left-drag a box over empty canvas
Clear the selection	Click empty canvas without Shift

A node's fields and media preview can handle gestures of their own. Use empty canvas when you want to move the graph without editing a control.

Mouse-wheel scrolling can pan or zoom, depending on how the browser reports the input. Use middle-button dragging when you want to pan reliably.

#Bring work back into view

Press F, or use Fit to View in the minimap toolbar (tooltip: Fit nodes to view). With nodes selected, it frames that selection. With nothing selected, it frames the whole graph.

With nothing selected, Fit to View frames nodes A, B, and C. With B and C selected, it frames B and C instead. The diagram changes the viewport; the nodes stay in the same graph positions.

Click empty canvas to clear the selection before fitting the whole graph. Fitting does not hide other nodes; nearby nodes can still be visible in Studio. Auto arrange nodes is a separate action that changes node positions.

If the minimap is hidden, open More Options → Minimap in the graph toolbar. Hover the minimap to reveal its toolbar. Auto Arrange (tooltip: Auto arrange nodes, shortcut U) moves the selection, or all nodes if nothing is selected, into a layout.

#A few useful desktop shortcuts

Use Cmd on macOS and Ctrl on Windows/Linux. Finish editing a field and close overlays before using graph shortcuts; other views and editors have their own keys.

Action	Shortcut
Open the node library and focus search	Tab
Fit the selection, or the whole graph if unselected	F
Auto arrange nodes	U
Toggle node pins	M
Toggle Blocks	W
Toggle Penny in Graph	Cmd/Ctrl+J
Save the project	Cmd/Ctrl+S
Open Settings	Cmd/Ctrl+,

Run Graph uses the selected nodes. It can also evaluate upstream work needed to supply their inputs. With nothing selected, Studio asks you to select nodes first. Review the selection before running, especially when it includes paid operations. Your first project introduces the node's own run control.

#Settings and missing controls

Open Settings from the dock or toolbar. Account, General, Storage, and Connectors are grouped first. Integrations, Variables, MCP, and Developer appear under Advanced. Admin is for instance administrators.

Available features depend on your account and installation. Read a feature's access message when a control is restricted. In particular, a missing Lab view or unavailable template action can be an account-access difference.

If you cannot find a control, return to Graph, reveal the dock at the bottom edge, check the library's Nodes/Projects selector, and open More Options for extra graph tools. A saved project in Station mode uses the Station mode bar instead of those usual controls.

#On a phone

Studio uses a compact workflow interface with blocks and sheets for parameters, history, and projects. Once a workflow has blocks, its project menu includes project actions, a graph button, and Settings. With one block selected and Multi-Select off, tap that block again to hide or show the controls, including the project menu. The Ask Penny control opens the assistant sheet.

In the mobile graph view, use the visible Fit to view, Auto arrange nodes, and Close graph view controls. Multi-Select lets you select several nodes. Drag empty canvas to pan and use two fingers to zoom.

Mobile Settings has Account and Variables tabs. The full desktop Settings list above describes the desktop layout. For running a workflow someone has already packaged, a Station provides a focused interface.

Continue with Projects to understand what Studio saves and how a workflow stays editable.