Sonic Grid

How Sonic Grid is organized

Sonic Grid has two halves. One is for listening and reading: the feed, and everyone’s tracks, posts and sites. The other is the dashboard, where you make your own. You move between them all the time, so it helps to know which one you are in.

Listening and reading

These pages share a rail down the left side. It is the same on every one of them, and it is how you get back to the dashboard.

The rail

Home	The feed: what the people you follow, and everyone else, have published.
Listen	A room that plays picked public tracks, one after another.
Explore	Browse people and their work.
Spaces	Group conversations around a subject.
Create	Start a post, track, video or collection.
Library	What you have saved.
Activity	Likes, comments, follows and messages about you and your work.
Jam	The chat that can find, make and change things for you.
Dashboard	Your own work.

N starts something new

On any page with the rail, pressing N opens Create, as long as you are not typing in a field.

The dashboard

The dashboard has no rail. Everything is reached from one menu at the top left, which shows the name of the page you are on.

The dashboard menu. Home goes back to the feed, and Profile opens your public page.

Each area in the menu has its own tabs, which appear along the top bar once you are in it.

Areas of the dashboard

Overview		Your numbers, your recent work and a preview of your site.
Profile	Profile, Brand, Splash, Site	How you appear to other people: your details, your look, your landing page and your site.
Content	Content, Media, Import	Everything you have made, the files behind it, and bringing in work from elsewhere.
Sketchbook	Sketchbook, Book, Themes, Recordings, Roadmap	The interview, what you said in it, and the themes drawn from it.
Community	Community, Spaces, Mailing List, Messages	The people connected to you and how you reach them.
Manage	Account, Payments, Metrics, MCP	Your account, plan and settings.

What you can make

Create offers four things. Each opens in its own editor, and each has a publish state that decides who can see it.

Track	A song with pictures laid along it. Made in the track editor.
Post	A poster, a piece of writing, an event, a gallery, merchandise or gear.
Video	A video post, or a motion graphic you build and export.
Collection	A playlist, an album or a zine that gathers tracks and posts.

Whatever you make shows up under Content in the dashboard. Whether anyone else can see it depends on its state, which is the subject of the next page.

In this manual

Draft, Live and Published

What each state shows to other people, what a track needs before it can be published, and why your site works differently.

The track editor

Sections, clips, the timeline and text: every gesture for laying imagery along a song.

Posts

The post editor: blocks, the seven kinds of post, design templates, and saving.

Your site

Rows, columns and blocks, the six parts of the site editor, and what Save does.

Jam

The chat that can find, make and change things for you: shortcuts, help, the Stage, and what needs your yes.

Not written yet

These parts of Sonic Grid work today. Their pages are still to come.

Collections. Playlists, albums and zines, and how tracks get into them.
Sketchbook. The interview, the book, themes and recordings.
Media. The media library and making images and video.
Brand and splash. Your look, your logo and your landing page.
Community. Connections, spaces, the mailing list and messages.
Listening. The feed, the player, Listen, Explore and your library.

Draft, Live and Published