Open a session by double-clicking it in the Sessions library (or right-click → Analyze Session). Since 1.5.3 you can also double-click a session file in Finder — see Importing Sessions. It appears as a row under Session analysis in the sidebar and stays open until you close it.
While the file is being read, the pane shows how far along it is rather than an unmarked spinner.
Tabs and windows
- Open as many sessions as you like — each is its own row, and each keeps its own state: which channels are plotted, how far you've zoomed, which laps you're comparing.
- Reorder rows by dragging. Close with the × that appears on hover, or right-click → Close.
- Rename a tab to anything you want (double-click, or right-click → Rename) and give it a Finder-style color label.
- Drag a tab out of the window to open it in its own window. Drag it into another window — or back into the main one — to move it, like browser tabs. Detached windows hold as many tabs as you like and reopen where you left them.
- Tabs you leave open reopen next launch, if Reopen analysis tabs on launch is on in Settings.
Saved analyses
Added in 1.5.3. A tab remembers how you left it, but only until you close it. A saved analysis keeps it for good: the panes, the compared laps and their colors, the split division, the reference laps, the video.
- Closing a tab you have arranged offers to save it. It only asks when something actually changed, so closing a session you only glanced at asks nothing — and the prompt can be turned off in Settings → General. The tab stays open behind the prompt until you answer it: Save, Don't Save, or Cancel to keep the tab after all.
- Opening that session again offers what you saved, with Start Fresh as the other choice. Right-click an entry in that list to rename or delete it.
- The Analysis menu in the toolbar does all of it by hand: Save Analysis…, Open Saved Analysis…, and Export Analysis… to send the whole view to someone else (see Exporting & Sharing).
Saved analyses point at your sessions rather than copying them, so they cost kilobytes, and the name defaults to when you started working — which is usually how you remember it.
The two views
Across the top of an open session are its header tabs:
- Graph analysis — the channel graph, lap map, video, and playback. See Graph Analysis.
- Split analysis — sector times and deltas, lap by lap. See Split Analysis & Sectors.