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Find your way round the dashboard

You willKnow where to start a job, continue a project, open an example or get help.
Time1 min

Try it in Plotlay → Opens Plotlay with this lesson beside it. Nothing to install.

Steps

  1. The dashboard opens when you start Plotlay. To come back to it from a project, choose Plotlay (the logo, top left).
  2. What do you want to do? lists the common jobs, such as Draw a room or Capture a GPS point. Each one opens what it needs and shows the steps.
    The Plotlay dashboard: What do you want to do? with ten task cards, and Start something new below.
  3. Start something new has every kind of project: a Map project, a Plan from a drawing, a Blank plan, or rooms from Plotlay Scan.
  4. Your projects lists everything you have made. Search them, or sort by Most recent or Name.
  5. Examples are real projects to explore, each opened as a fresh copy. Guides and Help are at the bottom.

Tips

  • Esc on the dashboard takes you back to the project you had open.

Common mistakes

  • Looking for a File menu: there isn’t one. Projects save themselves as you work, and Saved in the top bar says so.
Check yourself

Where do you go to open one of the example projects?

Related lessons

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Steps checked in the app on 14 October 2026.