The hub

The hub is the page at the root of Parseh’s address, https://localhost:7654/, and the one the home link in the top-left corner of Parseh’s pages leads back to — a پ, the first letter of the toolbox’s Persian name, on most of them. It shows what there is and lets you pick where to go.

It is made afresh each time you open it, so its counts are always today’s: come back to it, or reload it, after adding something.

1. The top bar#

From the left:

On a phone the bar sheds words to stay on one row — the hub and the stop after ⏻ go first, then the name beside پ — and keeps every button. A screen reader still hears Parseh and stop; the hub is dropped altogether, since the name under the bar says it.

2. The language chips#

Under the name, one chip for each language you have something in — its name in its own script, فارسی, 日本語, italiano, with how many books, videos, documents and decks it has — and all for everything.

Picking a chip does two things:

• The doors’ counts follow it: with فارسی picked, the Books door says how many Persian books there are, the Videos door how many Persian videos, and so on — 0 for a door with nothing in Persian;
• It is remembered, by this browser, for the whole toolbox: the books, the videos, the studio’s library and the exercise decks each have the same row of chips, and they open showing the language you picked last, whichever page you picked it on.

A language only has a chip on a page while there is something of it there. A page with nothing in the language you picked — the video index, when all your videos are in other languages — shows everything, and the choice goes back to all.

3. The doors#

Four large doors, one for each part of the toolbox, each with its name in Persian above it — the toolbox’s own language, whatever you are learning:

and five wide ones under them, for the work around the four:

A door that says 0, nothing marked yet or no dictionary yet is doing its job: it tells you there is something there you have not started using.

⚙ Settings is not the ⚙ of a page. The door opens Parseh’s own settings. The button ⚙ page in the bar of a book, a video, a document or a deck opens a panel for that page alone, which ends with a link back to these Settings (The ⚙ settings of a page).

4. The foot#

At the bottom of the hub:

• Reachable at, and every address the server can be reached at — the ones to type on a phone — followed by who may reach it and a link that changes that (From a phone or another computer);
• a reminder that every browser warns once about the certificate, which is Parseh’s own;
• that the ⏻ stop button stops the server, that a book is built from its card on the books’ library page and a video added from the video index — and that the guide has the rest;
• which version of Parseh this is, and that it is free software, with a link to its licences (Licences and credits);
• three links, GitHub, parseh.io and imbrunoursino.net: the first leads to Parseh’s own repository on GitHub, the second to Parseh’s website, the third to the website of Bruno Ursino, who made Parseh. They are only links: each opens in a tab of its own when you click it, and nothing is fetched from any of the addresses before that, so the foot looks the same with no connection.

The mobile hub says the licence and the version on two lines at its very foot, the version on the second, and has the three links on a third. What’s new says what each version brought. Settings ends with the same three links, and so does every page of this guide.

5. The theme#

The ◐ button, at the top of the hub and of every page that has a bar, changes the colours of the whole toolbox. Each click goes on to the next of three palettes:

Until you first click it, Parseh follows the computer’s own setting — light or dark — and the button’s tooltip says following the system. From the first click the choice is yours, and it holds everywhere: every page with the button — the books and their reader, the videos and their player, the Anki page, the clip tray, the dictionaries’ page —, the studio’s and the exercises’ pages — a document, the editor, a deck, studying it and cramming it — and this guide when Parseh serves it. The colours follow you: they are kept by the computer Parseh runs on, so every device that reaches it wears the same, and the ⚙ page panel’s Colours group, Colour scheme, sets them the same way — Follow my device, Light, Dark or Sepia. The language, by contrast, is remembered by each browser for itself.

The studio wears the same colours. A document’s sheet, the editor and the exercise pages have no theme of their own: they are painted with the colour scheme everything else has, at once, when ◐ or the panel’s Colour scheme changes it.

The Working… panel appears at the top of the hub, above its name, whenever the server is busy — The Working… indicator says what it shows.