Editor
Editor
Open the editor with New at the top of the dashboard (its tooltip reads New blueprint), or by editing an existing blueprint. A new blueprint first asks What are you trying to build?, with up to four cards. Draw a design from scratch, then Continue, Blank diagram and Start blank, opens step 1 on a blank diagram; Start blank on the first screen does the same. The three steps can be visited in any order; only publishing is gated.
1. Content
Title and tabs. The first tab must be a diagram or a Continuum tab.
The canvas fills most of the step. The engine menu switches between Vellum, draw.io, Excalidraw and Mermaid; Vellum is the default unless you have changed it in Settings → General.
Right-clicking a shape offers Add Stratum… here, so detail can be written before the diagram is finished.
2. Details and files
Everything alongside the diagram: strata, further diagrams that are not tabs, and uploaded files organised into folders.
Skippable on a first pass.
3. Publish
Generated from your content. Correct them: they drive discovery and the related-content rail.
Empty canvases, empty tabs and missing titles are blocked here rather than shipped. Each item in the list links to the thing to fix.
Sets a version. Readers see that version until you publish again.
Preview shows the reader's view without publishing, including strata and tab chrome. Use it before the first publish rather than after.