Interface tour

The Dynomatic window has four fixed parts, a left icon rail for navigation, a tab strip for the tables you have open, the work area in the middle, and a status bar along the bottom for connections and activity. This page names each one and lists the shortcuts.

The left rail

The rail never moves. Its top group navigates.

• Dashboard opens the landing page. See Dashboard.
• Tables opens a popover beside the rail rather than a page. See Table browser.
• Query opens the query workspace. See Visual query builder.
• History opens command history, a paid feature.

The bottom group holds Alerts, Feedback, Settings, and the user and account menu. Every button carries a tooltip with its label and its shortcut.

Tabs

Each table you open gets a tab. Tabs can be grouped, reordered, and merged by dragging, and they are restored when you relaunch the app. Closing a tab moves you to a surviving one rather than leaving you on a dead page. See Tabs and groups.

The mode bar

Each query tab has one header row, the mode bar. A mode is one kind of work on the tab’s table. The active mode is a raised key, and its views sit beside it, so every view is one click away.

Mode	Views
Query	Filters, PartiQL, Schema or Import schema, and Vector search
Scripting	None
Streams	None
Schema Explorer	None
Data Model	Schema, Collections, Access Patterns, and Relationships
History	Commands and Changes

Some modes and views depend on the table:

• Schema appears when an imported schema or the table’s data model maps to the table. Otherwise Import schema takes its place and opens the schema import wizard.
• Vector search appears only on a table with a vector index.
• Streams appears only on a table whose stream is on.

A mode or view that your plan does not include stays in the row, and hovering it says what unlocks it. The Table settings button sits at the right end of the row and opens Table settings for the tab’s table.

When you switch modes, the new key rises and its views unfold. If your operating system is set to reduce motion, the switch happens without animation. To switch from the keyboard, run a Switch to command from the command palette, such as Switch to Schema Explorer.

The status bar

The bottom strip is where connection state lives.

On the left it carries the connection segment, which opens the workspaces popover, and a session-elapsed readout. Next come the environment switcher and the table count. The open tab already names its table, so the status bar does not repeat it. On the right sit the sample-mode pill, the S3 export job progress pill, the trial pill, and the app version with its update state. See Connect to AWS.

The command palette

Press ⌘ K on macOS or Ctrl + K elsewhere, or click the search field at the top of the window. The palette searches every table in every connected workspace, every command, your favorites, saved queries, saved tab groups, and workspaces in one list, and each command row shows its shortcut.

Type : to see only commands, # for tables, or @ for workspaces. Press Tab on a row to see what else you can do with it. See Find and run anything from the keyboard and the Command reference.

Keyboard shortcuts

These are the defaults. Every one of them is rebindable.

Action	macOS	Windows and Linux
Execute Query / Scan	⌘ Enter or F5	Ctrl + Enter or F5
Command Palette	⌘ K or ⌘ P	Ctrl + K or Ctrl + P
Show Settings	⇧ ⌘ ,	Ctrl + Shift + ,
Close Tab	⌘ W	Ctrl + W
Next Tab	⌃ Tab	Alt + Tab
Previous Tab	⌃ ⇧ Tab	Alt + Shift + Tab
Dashboard	⌘ 1	Ctrl + 1
Tables	⌘ 2	Ctrl + 2
Query	⌘ 3	Ctrl + 3
History	⌘ 5	Ctrl + 5
Feedback	⇧ ⌘ F	Ctrl + Shift + F
Workspaces	⇧ ⌘ P	Ctrl + Shift + P

To rebind one, open Settings, then Keyboard Shortcuts. Every command is listed there, including the ones that ship without a binding, and each can hold more than one combination, the editor captures keys as you press them, conflicts are detected live, and a reset restores the defaults. Shortcuts appear in tooltips and are exposed to assistive technology.

Themes and language

Choose Light, Dark, or System in Settings under General. System follows your OS as it changes, with no flash of the wrong theme at launch.

Code editors carry their own theme catalog, with separate choices for light and dark appearance and a live preview as you hover.

The interface is available in English and Japanese. Language resolves from your explicit setting first, then your OS locale, then English.

Onboarding

Three onboarding surfaces help you find your way, and all three reset from Settings under Onboarding.

The Get started panel sits in the bottom-right corner with four milestones, Connect to AWS, Run a query, View your query history, and Try the command palette. Each carries a live shortcut chip, and completion is genuine, so connecting counts only once the connection works. Collapse it to a pill, or dismiss it for good.

Component tours are spotlight walkthroughs over one control group, currently the stream controls, the streams viewer, and the workspace row. They skip steps whose target is off screen, defer while a dialog is open, and exit on Escape.

Page tours are a 21-item checklist spread across the Dashboard, Query, and History pages, completed by the app itself as you do each thing. Each item offers a “Show me” spotlight. Page tours are opt-in on real data and always on in Sample mode.