2.1. Sophie's interface
There are three main parts of the Sophie interface: the book desktop, the left flap, and the right flap. The book desktop is the gray area in the center of the Sophie window. The Sophie interface looks like this:
Flaps are the things that stick out on the left and right side of the Sophie window; you can adjust the size of the flaps by dragging the margins back and forth. Each flap has several tabs in it, which can be selected by clicking the tab name. Most tabs contain more than one palette. Palettes can be lists of things used in Sophie (like all the movies in a book) or tools (like the spellchecker). There’s also a bottom flap, which isn't in this release of Sophie.
The Book Desktop button at the top left corner of the book desktop will minimize all open books and show the book desktop behind them. A button will appear next to the Book Desktop button for every book that is open in Sophie.
Sophie has menu bars, but they’re not used for very much. Most of the things you can do in Sophie can be done through the flaps or halos and HUDs.
