Rixoffice opens on a launcher built for one purpose: getting you into the right file in the fewest clicks. The home screen shows what you worked on recently, grouped by when, and the tab bar keeps every open file one click away. Together they replace the file-dialog dance that most office work actually consists of — this page walks through both halves.
The home screen
The first thing you see is a grid of your recent files:
- Today and Yesterday groups put your active work at the top, exactly where you left it. The grouping follows time, not folders, because what you did recently matters more than where the file lives.
- Type filters — Docs, Sheets, Slides, PDF and Markdown — narrow the grid to one kind of file with a single click.
- One click on any tile reopens the file in its app.
The grouping is deliberately shallow. There is no tree of folders to expand before you find yesterday's draft — the two groups cover the vast majority of real reopenings, and everything older is one filter click away in Explorer or Finder. Office work is mostly recent work, and the launcher is tuned for that reality rather than for archive browsing.
A document you edited this morning appears at the top whether it lives on your desktop, in a project folder or on a second drive — the launcher indexes by activity, not by directory hierarchy, so recents reflect what you are doing rather than how your disk is organized.
Alongside the grid sit the quick actions:
- New Tab opens a picker for a new or existing file.
- New Doc, New Sheet, New Slide and New Markdown create a fresh file of that type immediately.
The sidebar rounds out the launcher with Cloud Projects for synced Rixcart documents and Settings for providers, plans, updates and appearance. First-launch users also meet a short onboarding flow that walks through the workspace once and then gets out of the way.
The tab bar
Every open file lives in a tab across the top of the workspace, like a browser:
- Open as many files as you like — a report, its data workbook, the deck you are building from them, plus the PDF you are reviewing.
- Click a tab to switch instantly; there is no window juggling and no Alt-Tab hunting through unrelated applications.
- Close a tab with its X. The document autosaves first, so nothing is lost.
Tabs are shared across all five apps. That is the point of the shell: you learn one workspace and every file type behaves the same way. A Markdown file and a spreadsheet differ in tools, never in how you open, switch or close them.
The tab model also changes how you think about saving and closing. Because files autosave and tabs close independently, the old habit of closing everything before shutting down is optional rather than required — reopen Rixoffice tomorrow and the recents grid puts every file one click away again.
Getting around fast
The launcher rewards a few small habits:
| Habit | Why it helps |
|---|---|
| Start from Today | The file you touched most recently is usually the one you need |
| Filter by type before scanning | A hundred recents become five when you filter to Docs |
| Keep related files in tabs | Source workbook, draft and PDF stay one click apart all day |
| Use New Doc for scratch work | Blank files open instantly and save wherever you choose |
Keyboard users can move even faster — Ctrl+N, Ctrl+O and Ctrl+S behave as you would expect across every app, and the full list is in keyboard shortcuts.
The launcher is also the place where the suite's onboarding flow lives. On first launch, a short walkthrough introduces the grid, the tab bar and the New buttons, and then it is gone for good — the home screen assumes competence from your second session onward.
Where recents come from
The home screen reads your actual files from your own folders; nothing is copied into a hidden app library. If you move or rename a file outside Rixoffice, its tile updates on the next open. Files you sync through cloud projects appear in the sidebar rather than the recents grid, keeping local and cloud work visually separate.
A typical morning
- Launch Rixoffice.
- Filter recents to Docs and open the report you left half-finished yesterday.
- Click New Tab, filter to Sheets, and open the data workbook behind it.
- Click New Tab again for the deck you are building from both.
- Work across the three tabs; close them when the day is done.
No file dialogs, no hunting through Finder or Explorer — the launcher remembers so you do not have to. By the end of the week the recents grid has quietly become the map of everything you are working on.
That map also works as a safety net. If you closed a tab in a hurry without noticing which file it was, the recents grid shows it at the top of Yesterday, and one click restores the context you thought you had lost.
What to explore next
- Cloud projects — the sidebar for synced Rixcart files.
- Keyboard shortcuts — drive tabs and the launcher without the mouse.
- Dark mode and theming — make the workspace yours.