# Find your way around

The dashboard, the sidebar, the New menu and the phone layout.

## On desktop

The sidebar on the left is your main navigation. What it shows depends on whether you are in your personal space or inside a group.

**Personal space**

- **Dashboard**: a greeting, a to-do list of transfers to accept and requests to answer, security alerts, your activity feed, and shortcuts to your groups and organisations.
- **Drive**: your encrypted files. See [Upload and organise files](https://databeamer.eu/en/docs/files/upload-and-organise).
- **Exchange**: everything you send and receive. It contains **Transfers**, **Requests** and **Secure Mail**.
- **Contacts**: people you work with. See [Contacts](https://databeamer.eu/en/docs/chat/contacts).

**Inside a group**

- **Dashboard**, **Chat**, **Drive** and **Exchange** (Transfers and Requests), all scoped to the group.
- **Settings**, visible to owners and admins.

Your groups are listed in the narrow rail on the far left.

![The dashboard with the sidebar on the left and the New button top right](https://databeamer.eu/docs-screenshots/en/dashboard.png 'The personal dashboard on desktop.') **New group** sits at the bottom of that rail.

### The New menu

The **New** button in the top bar is the fastest way to start something: **New Transfer**, **New Request**, **New Group** or **New Organization**. You can also drag files onto the window from anywhere to start a transfer.

![The New menu with New Transfer, New Request, New Group and New Organization](https://databeamer.eu/docs-screenshots/en/quick-add-menu.png)

### The user menu

Click your avatar in the top right for **Notifications**, **Settings**, the **Dark mode** switch, **What's new**, **Send feedback** and **Sign out**.

## On your phone

On a small screen Databeamer uses tabs along the bottom:

- **Chats**: direct messages and group chats. This is where the app opens.
- **Activity**: your activity feed.
- **Drive**: your files.
- **You**: your transfers, requests, contacts, settings, audit log and sign out.

![The phone layout with the Chats, Activity, Drive and You tabs](https://databeamer.eu/docs-screenshots/en/phone-chats.png 'On a phone, Databeamer opens on Chats.')

## Locking and unlocking

Whenever you open Databeamer it asks for your PIN, or for your passkey if you enabled one. This unlocks the keys stored on the device. If you would rather be asked once per browser session, turn on **Stay unlocked on reload** under **Settings › Security**.