1. When no data is open, Start a project opens by itself. Later, click Upload at the foot of the left sidebar, or Start a project to open your data at the top of the page, to open it again.
2. Start a project has 2 steps. In What do you have?, choose A sample, My own spreadsheet files, An export from my coding software, A Google Sheet or A published model. Step 2, Load it, then shows only what that choice needs; Change goes back to step 1, and Themescape remembers your choice next time. Published model and Trace a published figure appear only when you choose the Model card, whichever route you came in by.
3. For spreadsheet files, choose a mode, then drop in the CSV files exported from your working spreadsheet, or click each file button to choose one. Only the Data file is required; Framework, Connections and Settings are optional, and the small i beside each one explains what it holds.
4. If you saved a layout file last time, add it in the Layout slot to bring back your custom placements, your Hierarchy and File tree orders and your built figures.
5. To give the project a title, type it in Project title. It shows at the top while you work, and Your progress keeps it in your Settings file. Left empty, the title in your Settings file is used, or your Data file's name.
6. Click Open viewer, or press Enter in Project title.

Themescape reads your files in your browser and keeps no copy of your project. That is not on its own enough to meet obligations to Māori data sovereignty, which are about who holds authority over Māori data. If your research involves Māori data or Māori participants, talk to your institution's Māori research advisors and the relevant iwi or hapū while you are planning the study. Te Mana Raraunga's principles of Māori data sovereignty are useful background.

Added the wrong file? Clear files, at the left of the Open viewer row once a file is loaded, empties every slot so you can start the step again. A title you have typed stays.

A quote with no theme and no candidate theme sits under Unsorted. Files saved with the older name, (Uncategorised), still load and show there too.

Other ways to start

• No data yet? Make your own copy of the template Google Sheet, or click Download blank template to work offline. Or choose A sample in Start a project, then pick a made-up study close to your own field.
• To connect a Google Sheet, set its Share access to Anyone with the link, then paste its link and click Connect. Only Google Sheets links are accepted. If the sheet cannot be loaded, a message under the link says why and stays there until you change the link: a sheet with headers but no quotes shows This sheet has no coded rows yet. Add your quotes to its Data tab, then click Connect again. Use this only for data that is not confidential, because anyone who has the link can read the sheet. For participant data, export CSV files and load those instead.
• On a paid plan, Connect with Google to save back signs in with Google and lets you pick one sheet, which can stay private. While it is connected, Save to sheet at the foot of the controls, in Work mode, writes your working definitions, connections, stars and Custom placement back to it; your quotes are never changed. Themescape reads the sheet again before each save and warns you if it has changed since you opened it. Saving sends your work to Google, so keep participant data in CSV files.
• Coded in NVivo, MAXQDA or ATLAS.ti? Use Import from your coding software on the Start a project screen instead of filling the template; section 12 explains it.

Themescape has 3 modes. You choose one when you start a project, and you can switch at any time under Mode at the top of the left sidebar.

• Code is for coding your data and developing your themes, as a Node network, a Hierarchy or a File tree.
• Build is a free canvas for constructing your final figure. Each figure style becomes a starting layout, and the build tools let you move anything, change node and branch shapes, add arrowheads and influence signs, frame linked factors and add notes. Build is always ready to edit, so it has no View, Work or Present. Undo and Redo, at the bottom left of the stage as in Work, grey out when there is nothing to undo or redo, and Add a note places the new note in free space on the stage.
• In Build, every node grows to fit its words, branches in Hierarchy always run down to the nodes below, and in Hierarchy and File tree each node keeps its place in order as you drag it along its row.
• Build shows the whole figure at once. Click a node to see it in the reader. Quotes never appear on the canvas, because a figure never includes quotes.
• Each figure style keeps its own built figure while your project is open. Save layout keeps your figures in a layout file, which Your progress also includes, and Export figure in the build tools saves a figure as a PNG, JPG or PDF (see section 13).
• Model maps your coded data into a published model or framework. It draws the model, places your quotes in its parts and keeps what does not fit in Outside the model (see section 14).

• To find something in this guide, type a word or two in Search this guide at the top: the sections that mention it open and the rest fold away. Log support request beside it offers your default mail app, Gmail, Outlook, or copying the address support@themescape.co.nz.
• The left sidebar holds Mode, Figure style and Working as at the top, and Colours, Upload, Export, Request a feature, Report an error and Viewer settings at the foot.
• Your account button, at the very bottom, shows your name and email and opens My account (in a new tab), Help and support, and Log out & exit.
• The reader on the right shows whatever you select, with Search and Clear reader at the top.
• On a narrow screen the reader folds under the stage, so Themescape still works when you zoom your browser to 200 percent. On a screen under 600 pixels wide, such as a phone, a notice says On a computer, zoom out to see the app.
• The first time you use each mode in a browser, a 2-line hint shows at the bottom left of the stage. More opens the matching section of this guide, and Expand all at the top of the guide opens every section.
• To resize a sidebar, drag the line beside it. Double click the line to return it to its usual width. Both sidebars open at their usual width each time Themescape opens.
• The button at the top of each sidebar folds it to a narrow column of icons and opens it out again. The folded left sidebar shows your current Mode, Figure style and Working as; click one to open the sidebar with that menu open. The folded reader shows Search and a book icon that opens the reader and its guide.
• While a sidebar is folded, hovering over it opens it over the stage until you move away.
• Short messages, such as Saved or Loaded, show as a small yellow card just below the buttons at the top of the stage, with a little wobble as they appear (none if your computer is set to reduce motion).

• Node network shows each theme as a bubble. Click a theme to open its codes, a code to open its sub-codes, and a sub-code to open its strands, the 4th level, where it has them; click again to close. Any number of codes can stay open at once. A theme with 5 or more codes, or a code with 5 or more sub-codes, sets them alternately nearer and further out, so the group stays compact and nothing touches.
• In Node network, drag the stage to move around, and use the zoom scale or Reset to change the view. When you open or close something, the new arrangement is worked out first and everything glides there once, without overlapping.
• You can drag a bubble aside in any mode to see what is behind it; it springs back to its place when you let go. To keep a bubble where you drop it, use Custom placement in Work mode (section 8).
• Hierarchy is a chart that runs from your project to its themes, codes, sub-codes and strands. Click a theme or code to open the level beneath it. Top down keeps every theme on one line in Code mode, in Build and in Figure export, however wide the tree grows; use the zoom scale or Fit to see more of it.
• In Hierarchy, Layout at the top right of the stage turns the figure: Top down (as before), Left to right, Right to left or Data structure (Gioia). Switch on Level headings to label each level; each level has its own field, and a heading you type stays when you change direction. When the tree runs top down, the headings sit in the left margin beside each row. Custom placement and Build drags move a box along its row or column. The layout is saved in your layout file and is used in Build and Figure export too.
• In Left to right, Right to left and Data structure (Gioia), a parent lines up with the middle of its children. In Code mode, every box in a column is one size; in Build and Figure export, a box grows to fit a long name.
• Data structure (Gioia) reads left to right, from 1st Order Concepts (your sub-codes) through 2nd Order Themes (your codes) to Aggregate Dimensions (your themes), with no project box and no connections, because a data structure shows no relationships between themes. The researcher resource How to: Make a Gioia-style data structure in Themescape walks through it with a worked example and sample files.
• You can use the map from the keyboard. Tab moves to the next theme or code, Enter opens it, Escape closes it, and the arrow keys move between themes or codes at the same level. Participant chips and quote stars work with Enter or Space too, and say whether they are on.
• Fit zooms to show as much of the figure as it can. In Node network it shows the open themes, if any are open, and keeps labels at 12 pixels or larger, so a large map can run past the stage. In Build it leaves clear the part of the stage the Build tools panel covers, and on a narrow stage the panel starts folded. In Build, Fit goes down to 2%, so a very wide Hierarchy shows as a thin strip; zoom in to work on it. In Code mode, the Hierarchy stops at 40%, so scroll to see the rest. On a narrow stage the zoom scale folds to just minus and plus, and Undo, Redo, Reset and Fit sit together in one row.
• File tree lists your themes like folders, ordered from the most quoted, so you can open them one level at a time. The order follows how much you have coded there, not how important a theme is.

• The Show connections menu, at the top right of the stage, draws the links between your ideas: All connections, Open theme connections, or Hide connections. The button reads Connections: all, Connections: open theme or Connections: hidden. Changing it never moves the view.
• A connection can join any 2 themes, codes, sub-codes or strands. In a Connections file, write a sub-code as Code > Sub-code and a strand as Code > Sub-code > Strand.
• A solid line is Empirical: participants’ accounts show the link directly.
• A dashed line is Theoretical: a link you propose from your reading of the data or the literature.
• An arrowhead marks a causal link and points to the effect.
• Hover over a connection to read its note, and click it to keep the note open.

1. Click Search at the top of the reader.
2. Type to find a theme, a code or words from a quote. The filter button lets you choose what to search.
3. Choose a result to open it; the search closes. Click Search again to return to the same results.
4. With a theme or code open, scroll the results and its name stays at the top, so you know what the reader holds.

• A sub-code with strands lists them with their quote counts, and its quotes each name their strand. A strand shows the theme, code and sub-code it sits under; click any of them to go back up.
• Selecting a theme, code, sub-code or strand shows its working definition, the participants who contributed, its quotes and its connections. The counts of quotes and participants show where your coding sits: they are context, not a measure of how strong a theme is.
• A click opens the reader at the top. Click a sub-code again to go to its quotes, and once more to fold the sub-codes away.
• Favourite quotes appear first.
• Click a participant to show only their quotes, and click again to show everyone.
• Under Relationships, the name of each connected theme or code is a link in its colour. Click it to open that node on the map.
• Clear reader empties the reader.
• + Reflexive note, at the foot of the reader, opens your reflexive notes and decision log, with the number of notes so far. Notes are your thinking as it develops: each is stamped with the time and mode, can be removed, and is exported as text. Nothing is logged automatically in Code or Build; the Decision log holds Model mode's departures from a published model and any Guided analysis steps you bring across, in one CSV. When the reader is folded, a + on its rail does the same. The button is hidden in Present.
• Your notes are saved in your layout file with Your progress, so they come back when you load it, travel through a Google Sheet's Layout tab, and go with your project to Themescape for students and back.

View, Work and Present are the ways of working in Code mode. Build is always ready to edit, so the switch is hidden while Build is open.

• View is for exploring; nothing changes.
• Work lets you write working definitions, star your favourite quotes, add or edit connections, and place bubbles where you want them. Hover over a field for a short note on what belongs in it; you can turn these notes off in Viewer settings. Undo and Redo step through your changes.
• Present gives a clean display for talks.

To add a connection (Work mode, Node network)

1. You do not need to show connections first: if they are hidden, + Add branch turns them on.
2. Click + Add branch, then draw from one bubble to another. Open a theme first to link its codes.
3. The editor opens at the bottom left. While you edit, the rest of the map fades back and the 2 bubbles drift closer, grow a little and float clear of the editor, so you can see what you are linking.
4. Write a note on how the 2 ideas relate, choose Empirical or Theoretical, and choose a causal direction if there is one. Each choice shows on the branch as you hover over it.
5. Click Save. The bubbles drift back to their places and the map settles once.

• To edit a connection, click it in Work mode and follow steps 4 and 5.
• Close or Escape leaves without saving. Delete removes the connection, and Undo brings it back.
• If you leave Work mode with a connection still open in the editor, you will be asked whether to save it.

To place bubbles where you want them (Work mode)

1. Click Custom placement.
2. In Node network, drag any open bubble, or any theme, open or closed, to where you want it. Only the bubbles it is joined to drift closer, and only what is in the way moves aside.
3. To reach a place off screen, drag near an edge of the stage; the stage scrolls that way at a steady pace while the bubble stays with your pointer.
4. In Hierarchy and File tree, drag a box or row to a new place among its neighbours.
5. To undo a placement, use Undo. To return every bubble to its usual place, click Clear arrangement.

• A placed code or sub-code travels back into its theme or code when that closes, and returns to the same place when it opens again. A placed theme keeps its place on the map and moves aside only if it would overlap.
• Your arrangement is kept while your project is open. Your progress saves it in a layout file, which brings it back when you add it in Start a project.

In Present mode

• Present opens on your themes alone, with nothing open, while keeping any places you have arranged. If Keep my place is on in Viewer settings, it keeps the theme you had open and the reader instead.
• Clicking a code opens its quotes as speech bubbles, favourites first, and the view centres on them.
• The reader features up to 3 of its favourite quotes, or its most illustrative quote if none is starred.
• Finish, at the start of the zoom row at the bottom right, ends the presentation with a closing screen: your project title and the Themescape logo, with your organisation’s name on a Premium licence. Click anywhere or press Escape to return to the map.
• Exit Present mode, at the top left, returns you to View in one click.

1. Click Colours at the foot of the left sidebar.
2. Choose the Themescape palette or one of 4 classic palettes, upload your own palette as a JSON or CSV file, or set a theme’s colour by hand under Manual colour settings.
3. Click Save colour settings to apply a palette.

Codes and sub-codes always take a lighter fill of their theme’s colour. With more themes than colours in the palette, the extra themes take lighter, then darker, shades of the palette colours.

On a Premium organisation licence, the header reads Themescape Premium, with your organisation’s logo or crest beside the project title when one has been added, and your organisation’s palette is listed in Colours and chosen for you the first time, until you pick another.

Click Viewer settings, at the foot of the left sidebar, to change:

• Motion: how fast themes open and close, and Reduce motion.
• Layout and text: the space between nodes and branches, and the text size.
• When you change Figure style or Working as: keep your place or start fresh.
• Work mode: the field explainers on or off.
• Build mode: the colour of the highlight that marks what you have selected to edit, fluoro yellow or blue.
• Reflexive notes: Show + Reflexive note, on unless you turn it off.
• When Themescape opens: the mode, figure style, way of working and connections it opens with.

Your settings are saved in this browser. Reset to defaults puts them back.

Your edits are held in this page and do not change your spreadsheet. Themescape does not store your project, and nothing from your project is kept in this browser, so save your progress before you leave.

To export

1. Click Export at the foot of the left sidebar.
2. Choose what to save:
   • Your progress: your Data, Framework, Connections and Settings files with your latest stars, definitions and connections, plus a layout file when you have arranged bubbles or built a figure.
   • Definitions as CSV, to bring back into your working spreadsheet.
   • Definitions table (Word), a Word document (.docx) with one row per code and theme.
   • Connections as CSV, a file you can add again in Start a project.
   • In Model mode, Element summary, Mapping and Model files as well (see section 14).
3. The files download to your computer.

Every file is named after your project, then what it holds, such as My_study_Definitions.docx. Your progress adds the date and time it was saved, such as My_study_Framework_2026-10-26_18.07.csv, so a new save never overwrites an old one.

To log out

1. Click your account button at the very bottom of the left sidebar, then Log out & exit. It always asks first.
2. Leave the tick box ticked to clear the settings, guided analysis progress and tips Themescape has saved in this browser, or untick it to keep them.
3. Click Exit with my progress to download your files and then log out, or Exit without saving to leave without them.

Refreshing the page with Cmd+R, Ctrl+R or F5 asks first in the same way, and you stay logged in.

To carry on next time

1. Open Start a project.
2. Add the Data, Framework, Connections and Settings files you saved, and your layout file in the Layout slot if you have one.
3. Click Open viewer.

If you coded in NVivo, MAXQDA or ATLAS.ti, you do not need to fill the template by hand.

Export from NVivo

1. Export your project as a REFI-QDA file: on a Mac choose File, then Export Project; on Windows open the Share tab, click Export Project and choose REFI-QDA Project.
2. NVivo saves one file ending in .qdpx. Your project file itself (.nvpx on a Mac, .nvp on Windows) is not the export and cannot be opened here.

Export from MAXQDA or ATLAS.ti

• MAXQDA: on the Home tab, click Save Project As and choose REFI-QDA Project. The steps are the same on Mac and Windows.
• ATLAS.ti: on a Mac, open the Project menu, choose Export, then REFI-QDA Project (QDPX); on Windows, open the File menu, choose Export, then QDPX Project Bundle. ATLAS.ti Web cannot export a full project, so open it in ATLAS.ti on a Mac or Windows first.
• Each saves one file ending in .qdpx. The walkthrough shows the steps for each program.

Import into Themescape

1. In Start a project, click Import from your coding software in the drop zone, then choose the tab for your software.
2. The walkthrough repeats the export steps. Drop in the .qdpx file. It is read in your browser, and nothing is uploaded or stored.
3. If a file cannot be read, such as a project file rather than its export, a red message with an ! says why. Choose the right file and drop it in again.
4. Your top level codes are listed as groups with their counts. Untick anything that is not a theme, such as a folder NVivo made when autocoding. A folder that holds your cases, such as People, names your participants and is not offered as a theme.
5. Where quotes take their document's name, as they do when NVivo has no folder of cases, step 4 lists each document under Participant names with a box beside it. Type the name to show for that participant, or leave the box blank to keep the document name. A typed name goes into the Data file and the viewer, and the report counts it as Name you typed. Names can be typed here, in the import, and nowhere else.
6. Import results opens on the next page in 2 steps. Click Next step to see what was read: how many quotes, themes, codes and participants; where each participant name came from; quotes worth a look (very long ones, ones cut partway through a word, ones coded to a theme itself); and what was left out, such as coding on pictures, audio, video and PDFs, which Themescape does not read. You can add a name under Researcher or research team.
7. Project title starts with your NVivo project's name; change it if you like. Then click Open viewer to load the data straight in, or Download CSV files to save Themescape_Data.csv, Themescape_Framework.csv and Themescape_Settings.csv so you can carry on in the template. Download report saves the import report.

MAXQDA weights

MAXQDA leaves weights out of its .qdpx export. When its tab is open, you can add its Retrieved Segments export as well: activate all documents and codes, export Retrieved Segments as an Excel file, and drop it in with the .qdpx, in either order. This step is optional. Weights of 1 to 100 become illustrativeness 1 to 5, a weight of 0 stays blank, and the report lists any segments not matched to a quote.

ATLAS.ti code links

Links between codes in an ATLAS.ti export become your Connections file, each starting as theoretical, with an arrow for a directional relation such as is cause of. If any links are missing, open the Link Manager, click Excel Export, and drop that file in with the .qdpx. This step is optional.

For a cleaner import

• Keep themes at the top level of your codes.
• Code each transcript or speaker turn to a case kept in one folder.
• Name and describe your codes.
• Rename cases and documents to pseudonyms before you export, because names show in every view.

Quotes come across exactly as coded, line breaks included, and are never altered. NVivo and MAXQDA do not export maps or relationships, so connections are drawn in Work mode or added in a Connections file. Before you rely on the import, check a few quotes against the same passages in your coding software. If anything looks wrong, use Report an error in the viewer.

Make a figure of your analysis for a thesis, article or poster, as a PNG, JPG or PDF. It is drawn in your browser, and nothing is uploaded. Quotes are never included in figures, to protect participants.

To export a figure

1. Choose the figure style you want in the left sidebar: Node network, Hierarchy or File tree.
2. Click Export at the foot of the left sidebar, then Figure for publication. In Build, click Export figure in the build tools instead: it opens Figure export with the figure you have built, as it stands, without the nodes and branches you have hidden.
3. In What to show, choose Themes, Codes, Sub-codes or As on screen for exactly what is open now. Connections are drawn when they show on screen.
4. Choose a Referencing style: APA 7th, MLA 9th or Chicago 18th. It sets the font (Helvetica for APA, Times for MLA and Chicago) and where the label, title and note go.
5. Choose a File type. PNG and JPG are images at 300 or 600 dpi. PDF is vector, so it stays sharp at any size.
6. Choose a Width: single column (85 mm), double column (175 mm), thesis page (160 mm), poster (400 mm) or as on screen.
7. Choose a Background (white, transparent, cream or a colour of your own) and Colour or Greyscale for print. In greyscale, themes become greys from dark to light, and Empirical and Theoretical connections stay solid and dashed.
8. Write the figure number, a title and, if you like, a note. Most journals want these in your manuscript, so Copy gives you them as text. Tick Draw the label, title and note into the figure to put them in the image instead. The note always ends with a short citation of Themescape in your chosen style, and the full Themescape reference is there to copy for your reference list.
9. Every figure carries a small Themescape logo in its bottom left corner, grey in a Greyscale figure. In a PDF the logo links to themescape.co.nz; a PNG or JPG prints the address beside it. On a Premium organisation licence, your organisation’s name follows, in the same colour.
10. A fully open Hierarchy exports wide, so it prints small at journal widths. Close the branches you do not need before you export for print, choose a wider size, or use a sideways layout, which runs tall instead, and check the size line under the preview.
11. Check the preview and the size line under it, then click Export figure. The file downloads to your computer.

If a note shows under the preview or the options

1. If the smallest text would print under 8 pt, choose a wider size or show fewer levels.
2. If the figure includes notes you wrote in Build, a warning reminds you that a note must not quote a participant unless your ethics approval allows it, because quotes in a published figure may identify them.
3. If the figure is too large for this browser to draw at the resolution you chose, it is saved at the highest resolution that fits. Choose PDF for full sharpness at any size.

Presentation slides

Slides to insert into PowerPoint or Keynote, for when you cannot present live. They are made in your browser, and nothing is uploaded.

1. Click Export, then Presentation slides, then Start capturing. Present mode opens with a Capture bar at its foot. In Node network and Model mode, a frame on the stage shows what the slide will hold; in Hierarchy and File tree, the bar says what it will hold.
2. Pose the map as you would in a talk, then click Capture. In Node network and Model mode, a slide holds what is inside the frame. In Hierarchy, it holds each open theme's branch, fitted to the slide; closed themes are left out, and with no theme open you get the whole tree. In File tree, it holds the list as it shows, without the Quote count column.
3. Each slide is a widescreen image, 3840 by 2160 pixels, with a title, your project name and a small Themescape mark. The title starts as the theme, code, sub-code or strand selected in the reader, or Model mode's selected part, or else your project name. Change it in the tray, or leave it blank.
4. Quotes showing in speech bubbles go on the slide, set large enough to read. A quote that does not fit, or whose code is outside the frame (its pill, in Model mode), is left out. Capture says so, and the slide's card in the tray keeps a count of the quotes left out.
5. In the tray, drag a slide to move it, or press Alt and the left or right arrow in its title. The × on a slide removes it. A set holds up to 40 slides.
6. Click Download for one zip of numbered PNG files. If any slide shows quotes, you first confirm that your ethics approval allows them to be shown.
7. Slides are kept only until you reload or close the page, or open another project, so download them first. Start a project asks before it clears them. They are made in Code and Model modes, not in Build.

Model mode maps your coded data into a published model or framework. It draws the model's parts and arrows, places your quotes in the parts your themes and codes are linked to, and keeps everything else in Outside the model, because data that does not fit a model is a finding too.

To set up a model

1. Fill in the Model elements tab of the template with the parts of the model you are using, and the Model relationships tab with its arrows, if you want them drawn. A relationship can have a label, the name a published figure prints beside its arrow.
2. In the Framework tab, fill the model_element column: the id or name of the part each theme or code belongs to, or outside to keep it out. A code with a blank cell follows its theme.
3. Save each tab as a CSV file, choose Model in Start a project and load the files.
4. No model files yet? Click Trace a published figure to draw over an image of the figure: a box for each part and a line for each arrow. Find parts can start the tracing: in a PDF, cropped to the figure, it reads the boxes, names and arrows the figure is drawn with, and in a picture it finds the boxes and reads the text in them. Read names reads the text in any box you drew yourself. It all happens on your device and nothing is sent anywhere. The first time text is read, the reader comes with the app, about 11 MB. Check each suggestion. Themescape writes the 2 files from your tracing. If you open a new image or PDF over a tracing, Themescape asks first: Start clean empties the parts and arrows before it opens, and Keep this tracing stays where you are.
5. To add the published model's citation, paste its DOI or PubMed link into Published model and click Look up. Only that DOI or number is sent, to Crossref, Europe PMC and Unpaywall. The citation fills in for parts and arrows with no source of their own, and Themescape says whether a legal free copy exists.
6. Read Check mapping, then click Open the model.

If you choose Model for a project with no model files, the stage says This project has no model yet, with Load model files and Trace a published figure to start one.

In View

• Click a part of the model to read its description and source, and to open its codes around it. The fill shows how much of your coded data sits there, as context rather than a measure of how well the data supports that part; the key shows what each colour means. A palette you choose in Colours colours the model's types too.
• Click an arrow's sign to read the published note and your Researcher interpretation.
• Fit zooms to show as much of the model as it can, down to 30%, and Reset closes everything you have opened.

In Work

• Move a quote with Move to beside it in the reader, or drag a code onto another part of the model, or onto Outside the model.
• Write how your data supports, extends or challenges each part.
• Click + Add relationship, then drag from one part to another, or onto an arrow for a moderator, to add a relationship you found in the data.
• Click any arrow to change its sign, direction or ends, or to remove it. Where the researcher version departs from the published model, the reader offers to add the change to the Reflexive log. The Reflexive log button opens the same reflexive notes and decision log as + Reflexive note (section 7), so Model departures sit in the one Decision log with one CSV.
• Drag the parts to arrange the model, and use Arrangements to keep and compare arrangements, with the Original model always there.
• Undo steps back, and Your progress saves all of this in your layout file, never with your quotes.

In Present

• Click a part to open its codes, then click a code to open its quotes as speech bubbles around it, favourites first.
• Finish ends the presentation with your project title and the Themescape logo.

To export

• In Export, Element summary and Mapping give CSV files for your methods chapter, and Model files saves the model with your arrangement and the researcher version of its relationships, to use again with another data set.
• Figure export saves the model as a PNG, JPG or PDF, without quotes.

Request a feature and Report an error

• Both are at the foot of the left sidebar. While you are signed in, you are not asked for your name or email: we reply to your account email.
• After you send a request or a report, wait 30 seconds before sending another of the same kind. The form says so if you try sooner.

Your account

• Open your account from the account button at the bottom of the left sidebar, then My account.
• The first time a new account opens Themescape, it asks you to read and sign the beta agreement, whether or not you have a plan yet. Clause 5, Intellectual property and feedback, says Themescape and its design stay Themescape's, and your research data and the results you make with it stay yours.
• Not ready to choose a plan? On the plans step of Sign up, Skip for now and open Themescape with the sample. Without a plan you can explore the sample; opening your own data asks you to choose a plan.
• Themescape's code loads for your account after you sign in, so the loading screen may stay about a second longer.
• Without a plan, or during a free trial, Build, Model mode, the exports, Figure export, Presentation slides and Save to sheet stay locked. Clicking one shows a short message such as Figure export opens with a plan.
• The public demo shows Code mode only, with no Export button. Build and Model mode open with a plan. Its guided tour has eight steps; from the second step, a ring marks what each step is about.
• Every Getting started step, on the Account page and in the strip at the foot of Start a project, is a link that takes you to that step.
• If you have a seat in an organisation licence, the overview says whether it is a Staff seat or a Student seat. When you use an activation code, the message says which seat it gave you.
• Download my data, under Your data, saves what your account holds as a file. It now includes the date you signed up and any organisation licence seats you hold, with the licence name, staff or student, whether you are its admin, and its end date.
• If you signed the beta agreement, the Account page shows it as Beta agreement (signed). The Help card on the Account page links to this guide.
• Buying for a department or university? On the last step of Sign up, See organisation pricing opens the Organisations plans.
• The Privacy statement and Terms of use open from the foot of the Account page and the sign-in pages, each with a numbered contents list and Back to Themescape.