Your first five minutes

Take a short tour of Lilo after installing it: the sidebar, Spaces, the command bar and the few shortcuts that make everyday browsing faster.

This page finishes the setup, then walks you through six moves: open a page from the command bar, pin a tab, peek at a link, group tabs in a folder, put two pages side by side, and make a second Space. Do them in order, in your own window; each takes under a minute.

Finish the setup

After the import, the setup has one or two screens left.

The rest of this page assumes your tabs are on the left, the default. The sidebar shows your Space’s tabs: favorites as tiles at the top, then pinned tabs, then the tabs you open.

1. Open a page from the command bar

The command bar is how you open, find and do almost anything in Lilo.

1. Press ⌘T. A new tab opens with the command bar over it.
2. Type example.com and press Return.
3. Press ⌘T again and type a few letters of a page you visited. Your open tabs, history and bookmarks come up with the web search, and choosing an open tab switches to it.

Start with @ to search only open tabs, / for history, # for bookmarks or : for actions such as New Split View. ⌘L opens the command bar on the current page’s address, to edit it. More in The command bar.

2. Pin a tab

Tabs you open are temporary: a tab left alone for 12 hours moves to the archive, so the sidebar stays short. Pin the tabs you come back to.

1. Right-click the example.com tab in the sidebar and choose Pin Tab. It moves up with your pinned tabs.
2. Quit Lilo with ⌘Q and open it again: the pinned tab is still there.

You can also drag a tab up to the pinned tabs. To get an archived tab back, press ⌘T and start with <. Each Space sets its own delay; see Tabs and folders.

3. Peek at a link

A pinned tab keeps its place: a link from it to another site opens in Peek, over the page, instead of taking the tab away.

1. In your pinned example.com tab, click the link on the page: it leads to another site, so it opens in Peek over the current page.
2. Press Esc, or click outside it, to close it. You are back where you were.
3. In any tab, hold Shift and click a link to peek at it. To keep the page, click Open as Tab at the top of the Peek, or press ⌘O.

See Peek and Little window.

4. Group tabs in a folder

1. Open two or three pages on the same topic.
2. Right-click one of them in the sidebar and choose Create Folder from Tab.
3. Drag the other tabs onto the folder. Click the folder to close or open it.

Right-click the folder and choose Edit Folder to rename it and pick a color. Folders nest, and can be locked; see Tabs and folders.

5. Put two pages side by side

1. Open a second tab, so there is one to show and one to drag.
2. Drag a tab from the sidebar onto the right edge of the page, and drop it on Open on the right.
3. Both pages now share the window. Drag the line between them to resize.

A split view holds up to four tabs. To undo it, right-click one of its tabs and choose Separate Split View. More in Split view.

6. Make a second Space

A Space is a set of tabs with its own name, emoji and color: one for work, one for home. Your first Space is called Home.

1. Click New Space, the plus button at the bottom of the sidebar.
2. Pick an emoji, type a name, and click Create Space. Lilo switches to the new, empty Space.
3. Click the Space icons at the bottom of the sidebar to switch, or press ⌃1 and ⌃2.

⌃⌘→ and ⌃⌘← go to the next and previous Space. Under Signed in as, a Space can share your sign-ins or keep its own; see Spaces and profiles.

Shortcuts to remember

Coming from Arc? Open Settings > General > Keyboard shortcuts and set Preset to Arc. The full list is in Keyboard shortcuts.

To see the setup again, open Settings > Advanced and click Replay next to Replay the welcome tour.

Where to go next