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When Ctrl Deck starts for the first time, there is nothing to configure. It automatically analyzes the applications already present on your Windows Desktop and taskbar, then suggests an initial organization using suggested groups.

At this stage, the import only concerns these applications: Ctrl Deck does not browse your personal folders or automatically import your files, documents or other content.

Once this first organization is created, you can freely change it and add the resources you need: files, folders, URLs and other compatible items.

Ctrl Deck is organized around four main interfaces, each dedicated to a specific use.

The annotated visuals below let you discover their layout, main buttons and immediately available information in detail. The Shortcuts and Apps interfaces, which offer more directly accessible functions, are intentionally presented in greater depth.

The demonstration video then shows the four interfaces in real use and a few essential interactions: navigating between panels, using Favorites, and reorganizing items with internal drag-and-drop.

This section is deliberately devoted to a general discovery of the interfaces. Option panels and the specific settings of each part of Ctrl Deck will be covered separately later in the Guide.

Ctrl Deck is not limited to the items already present in its interface.

You can add several files or folders to your organization directly from Windows using external drag-and-drop, both into your shortcut groups and into your Workspaces.

The second demonstration then shows the opening of a Workspace that has already been prepared and contains many different resources: applications, documents, folders and professional tools.

These examples illustrate two essential principles of Ctrl Deck: quickly enriching your organization from Windows and reopening a complete working environment in a single action.

The detailed options for creating, editing and customizing these elements will be covered in the following sections.

Create, find and personalize your quick access items

The Shortcut management panel lets you freely evolve your Ctrl Deck organization: create or edit your groups, add new shortcuts, quickly find an item, and assign keyboard combinations to the groups or applications you use most often.

The annotations on the image below highlight the main areas of the panel. The video demonstration then shows how they are used in practice.

The Apps tab lets you quickly find applications and utilities detected on your PC, without having to search for their location manually in Windows.

Its search engine filters the available list directly: type Adobe, for example, to find your Adobe applications, or search for a Windows utility that you use occasionally but can no longer remember exactly where to find.

For each application, Ctrl Deck can also show you immediately whether it is already used in your organization: in a shortcut group, in one or more Workspaces, or in both.

The + button then lets you use the selected application directly in Ctrl Deck and add it to the desired location.

In the demonstration, we will use the Windows Snipping Tool utility, for example: Ctrl Deck finds it among the detected utilities, then lets you add it directly to a shortcut group.

Workspaces are among the most powerful features in Ctrl Deck.

They let you prepare a few applications for a specific task, or recreate a full working environment with applications, files, folders, browsers, tabs and other resources.

You can create as many Workspaces as you need, customize them, pin them as Favorites and assign a keyboard shortcut to launch them directly.

Before looking at the two creation methods, here are the main options available on their management screen.