Getting Started with Rho MD
Welcome to Rho MD — a Markdown reader and notebook where documents don't just sit there: they chart, animate, and respond. This guide gets you productive in five minutes.
The window, in one tour
- Activity bar (far left): Psi library · Explorer · Bookmarks · Discover · plugins. The bottom holds Search commands, New canvas, Help, and Settings.
- Sidebar: whatever view you picked — outline, files, your library.
- Tabs: documents, canvases, and cloud pages all live here.
- Status bar: word count, edit-mode slider, and document controls.
Open & create
| Action | Shortcut |
|---|---|
| Open a file | Ctrl+O |
| New Markdown note | Ctrl+N |
| New canvas | Ctrl+Shift+N |
| Quick open (files) | Ctrl+P |
| Command palette | Ctrl+Shift+P |
| Today's note | Ctrl+D |
Everything Rho MD can do is a command. If you remember one shortcut, make it Ctrl+Shift+P — type what you want and it's there.
Read comfortably
- The Outline follows your document's headings; click any entry to jump.
- Bookmarks keep your place across sessions.
Ctrl+Shift+Tflips light/dark.Ctrl+=/Ctrl+-resize text.- Documents can declare their own theme and layout — a novel opens as a book with page turns, a slide deck as slides.
Edit in place
Ctrl+Etoggles edit mode: click into any paragraph and type. The document stays rendered while you edit — no raw-text whiplash.Ctrl+Shift+E(while editing) opens the source editor for the full raw Markdown.Ctrl+Ssaves. A brand-new note saves straight into your Psi library.- Interactive blocks (charts, scenes) are locked in the free editor — they render, and their source is always editable in source mode.
Your library: Psi
Your documents form a galaxy: each note is a star, each category a constellation. Open the Psi view to browse, search full-text, and open the 3D star map to literally fly through your knowledge. See the guide Psi & the Cloud for the full picture.
Where to go next
- Interactive Documents — make your notes move: charts, sliders, live scenes.
- Psi & the Cloud — library, sync, publishing, and reading what others publish.
- 5-minute tour — every AINP capability at speed, then build your first interactive doc.
- Interface tour · Keyboard shortcuts · Settings — the app in detail.
- Cheatsheet — one-page syntax reference for writers, and the FAQ for everything else.
Press F1 any time to come back to these guides.