Editor overview

Open a Book and you see two things: its typed properties — Author, Pages, Date — and a free-form body for your reading notes. Every Object page works this way. The Object Type decides which properties appear and whether the Object has a body at all; a Person, for example, can be purely structured.

The header shows the Type, tags, and the Type's properties. The body editor sits below the header.

Parts of an Object page

• The header holds the title, Type, tags, and the ⋯ menu (More actions) with page-level actions.
• The property area shows typed fields and relations, arranged by the Type’s page layout.
• The body holds paragraphs, lists, tables, media, embeds, and other blocks.
• The side panel shows the Object’s details — outline, backlinks, unlinked mentions, version history — along with related content, the graph, and AI chat.

Lar saves every edit automatically to your device, encrypted at rest. There is no Save command; the save-state indicator shows when changes are persisted.

Start writing

Select the body and type. These shortcuts cover most of what you’ll reach for:

Type	To
/	Open the slash menu and insert a block
[[	Link to another Object
![[	Show another Object’s content inline
((	Reference a single block
#tag	Tag the Object with a Tag

Use the gutter handle beside a block to move it or open its action menu. See Blocks and formatting and Links and transclusion.

Page and edgeless modes

Page mode is a linear document; edgeless mode is a spatial canvas. Open the ⋯ menu and choose Page mode or Edgeless mode, or press Ctrl+Shift+E. Lar remembers the mode per body. See Page and edgeless modes.

Keep context while you work

• Tabs keep several Objects open. Ctrl+Tab cycles through them and Ctrl+W closes one.
• The side panel (Ctrl+\) keeps backlinks, related content, or AI chat beside the current page.
• Focus mode (Ctrl+.) hides everything but the Object. See Find, outline, and focus mode.

Next: Blocks and formatting.