Slowly
The builder

Setting up your screen

A quick way to set the editor up before you build, then start on the globals.

A few minutes of setup makes the editor calmer to work in. One order that works:

  1. Dock the navigator on the right. With the block tree open beside the canvas, you select and reorder by name instead of hunting around the page.
  2. Add your common blocks to the quick-insert. The blocks you reach for on every build sit one click away rather than a search each time.
  3. Set your home viewport. Pick the screen size you design at most often, so the canvas opens there.
  4. Start with the globals. Set your colours, type, and classes in the global design system first, so everything you build afterwards inherits them.

None of this is required, and you can change any of it later. It just keeps the small frictions from adding up.

The editor

A map of the Slowly editor, the canvas, the inspector tabs, the navigator, the inserter, and the breakpoint switch.

The global design system

Global colours, typography, classes, stylesheets, and design tokens, set once and reused everywhere.