# Basics

Source: https://docs.gdc-world.net/tools-manager/basics/

## The menu

The menu on the left lists the screens you can use.

*[Image: The Tools Manager after signing in]*

- **1** The menu. Everyone has **My tools** and **My household**. The number next to **My household** is how many people are in your household. Below them is **Help**, the user guide you are reading.
- **5** At the bottom of the menu: the [language](#language), the [light or dark surface](#theme), your email address and [Sign out](#sign-out).

## The header

The bar at the top shows where you are and what you can do from anywhere.

- **2** The title of the screen, with a line on what it is for.
- **3** **Profile** opens your login details and lets you change your password. See [Profile](https://docs.gdc-world.net/tools-manager/profile/).
- **4** **?** opens the help for the screen you are on. See [Help for this screen](#help).

## Help for this screen

**?** in the header opens a panel with the part of this guide that explains the current screen. It stays open while you move around and always shows the help for the screen you are on.

*[Image: The help panel beside My household]*

- **1** **?** opens and closes the panel.
- **2** The panel's title is the topic it shows. **×** closes it.
- **3** **Open the full guide** opens the whole topic as a page, at the same place.

On a narrow window the panel opens over the screen; tap beside it or press Esc to close it.

The full guide is under **Help** in the menu. It starts with [Getting started](https://docs.gdc-world.net/tools-manager/getting-started/). The guide can also be read without signing in: on the sign-in page, choose **How does this work?**.

## Language

The Tools Manager speaks English and German. **EN** and **DE** at the bottom of the menu switch the language straight away; on the sign-in pages they are at the top. The choice is kept on this device.

## Light and dark surface

The moon or sun icon next to **Light surface** or **Dark surface** switches between a light and a dark appearance. Until you choose, the Tools Manager follows your device's setting.

## Sign out

**Sign out** at the bottom of the menu ends your session on this device. Sign out on shared computers.

You stay signed in otherwise, for up to 30 days of not using the Tools Manager. Signing out here does not sign you out of the tools; each tool has its own sign-out.