Where your projects live

Yatate keeps every document project as a folder under one projects folder, which defaults to:

• Windows: C:\Users\{you}\Documents\Yatate\Projects\
• macOS: ~/Documents/Yatate/Projects/
• iOS/Android: the app's own Documents folder (visible from the Files app / your file manager)

You can point this at a different location any time - see Settings. Everything below a project's own folder (its form, layout, scripts, assets, autocomplete suggestions) is self-contained there - nothing about a project lives anywhere else.

First launch

• If you already have a project, the app opens the last one you used directly into its fill-out form.
• If nothing's been opened yet (or the last one is missing), you land on the Projects list.

Creating a new project

The fastest way to get a blank project going is the New Yatate screen - see New Project for the full walkthrough. It creates the project folder with a blank base.pdf and a stub form.json, then drops you straight into the Layout Editor so you can start placing things on the page.

Prefer to start from an existing template instead of a blank page? See Finding More Documents.

Two ways to build

Nothing forces you into one workflow. A typical project mixes both:

• Use the in-app editors (Layout Editor, Form Editor, project properties) for the everyday 90% - placing blocks, adding simple fields, adjusting canvas size and colors.
• Drop into the built-in text editor (or any external editor, since it's just plain files) for the parts the in-app tools don't cover yet: repeating-group sub-fields, computed formulas, validate.js/process.js scripting, and anything involving real JavaScript expressions.

See Authoring Tools for everything past the in-app editors.