Once you know where everything is, the words that taught you start to take up room. Power user mode is one switch for that moment. Turn it on from Settings, under Editor → Power User.
What it sets
Switching it on applies these settings once:
- Alignment Guides: on.
- Auto-Attach Arrows: on.
- Every tour under Tours: off, so none of them offers itself.
- Suggested Prompts in AI Tools: off.
- Minimal Chrome: on (see below).
Panel opacity is left as it is.
While the mode is on, its row in Settings shows Minimal Chrome beneath it, and a Set By Power User Mode list of the settings above with their current values. Change takes you to each one.
It is a starting point, not a lock. Change any of these afterwards and the mode stays on. Switch the mode off and every setting you left alone goes back to what it was before; the ones you changed keep your change.
Quick light and dark
While power user mode is on, the appearance button in the bottom bar switches straight between light and dark: one click flips it. Right-click it (or focus it and press Shift+F10) to follow your device again. Outside the mode it steps through Light, Dark and System as usual.
Power user mode also removes the More (⋯) button from the selection toolbars on a computer: right-click the element or the selection instead to open its menu. Touch screens keep it.
It also draws the Explorer's Details view in dense rows, at half height.
Minimal chrome
Minimal chrome is a setting that only appears while power user mode is on. It hides the words and hints that teach the interface:
- the caption above the selection toolbar ("Selected Square");
- the captions under palette tiles;
- the text beside Search, Settings and the appearance button in the bottom bar;
- the "Tabs" label;
- panel titles and their ? buttons (the Explorer's ⋯ menu gains a Help row instead);
- onboarding notices: the modifier-key hint, the sign-in notice in the Explorer panel, and the theme-match suggestion;
- the bin in the selection toolbar, on a computer: press Delete or Backspace instead. Touch screens keep it;
- in the full-page Explorer, the sidebar's section titles (they become thin dividers) and the words on document badges (icons only).
The Editing / Viewing role pill leaves the title bar and becomes a pencil or an eye at the start of the bottom bar. Click it, as you would the pill, to preview your diagram read-only.
Every control stays. Hover one for a second, or focus it with the keyboard, and its name appears. Screen readers hear the same names as before.
livediagram offers power user mode once, after you have edited on 20 separate days or used 50 keyboard shortcuts on this device. Say no thanks and it will not ask again; the switch is always in Settings. It isn't offered while In-Editor Notifications are off.
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