Stars, nodes & regions
Everything you place on the sky — your home screen — is a star: an app, folder, or shortcut, drawn as a point of light. Stars are what you reach for, and regions are how you keep them tidy.
A star is anything you can place
Under the light, every star is the same kind of thing, so they all behave alike — you place them, move them, and open them the same way. What changes is what a star points at. A star can be:
- an app you launch,
- a folder that holds its own ring of stars,
- a widget floated in its own window,
- a shortcut an app publishes,
- a system action, like locking the screen,
- a file it opens by its type,
- or a link to a web page or deep link.
You rarely pick the kind by name. You choose it by how you add the star — an app from the app list, a link by pasting a URL — and Zenith sorts out the rest. Because every star shares one underlying form, a folder can hold a ring, and any star can carry your own icon, color, or name.
Where a star sits: angle and orbit
A star has a place on its ring: an angle around the circle and an orbit — how far out from the center it sits. The center of a ring is its closest reach; farther orbits ripple outward. You set both by dragging the star, so the layout is yours to arrange, not fixed to a grid.
Your most-used stars can also shine brighter than the rest, so the sky slowly comes to reflect what you actually reach for. That's an option you turn on; it's covered in Skies, usage-as-light & list mode.
Regions: zones of the sky
A region is a zone of the sky that groups stars, like a page or a category. Each region keeps its own ring, so holding in one region brings up one set of apps and holding in another brings up a different set — work in one place, play in another.
The sky can hold up to nine regions, but it starts with one. Adding more regions is part of Zenith Gold (Gold); the free sky uses a single region. Which region a hold opens depends on where on the sky your finger lands, and you can set the count and the dividers in Settings › regions & star index.
Stars, then, are the things you place; regions are the zones you place them in; and the ring is how both come to your finger — which is the next page.
See also. The ring engine · Skies, usage-as-light & list mode · Stars — apps, folders & rituals · Place a star