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The next piece of the interface that I want to look at is called the side bar. And I usually leave all these extra pieces closed until I need them. So to open the side bar there's a button right there to show or hide the side bar. So once we get it open, we see that the side bar is a place where we have different ways of organizing the content in our diagram. And there's two parts to it, the canvases section and the content section. So here in the canvases section, you see that in this diagram we have multiple canvases that are like pages in Omni Graphle. So if I click down from my homepage to my section template, and you can see these are wireframes for a website, you can see the multiple wire frames are required. And one document can hold multiple diagrams called canvases and operating much like pages. Also, this little twirl down here shows layers within a particular canvas. So in this case we've got the background on one layer, the homepage and the notes all separated. And we can…

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