Architecture
App structure
The signed-in sidebar map — Contact (Mail and Nests), projects, Shared with you, and Insights.
How Outdraft is organized
Once you’re signed in, the sidebar is the map. Groups in the UI are Contact, Your projects / Shared with you, and Insights. Under Contact sit Mail and Nests. Under projects sit organizations and teams. Analytics lives under Insights. This page is the layout reference — not a walkthrough of every action. Day-to-day use is in Mail, Nests, and Projects.
Sidebar regions
Read the group labels first, then the items under them. That is how the product is labeled — even when people casually say “Mail,” “Nests,” or “Projects.”
Contact → Mail
Personal mail under Contact: Inbox, Sent, Scheduled, Drafts, Search, Archive, and Deleted. Everyday reading and writing that belongs to you.
Contact → Nests
Shared spaces you create or join, still under Contact. Library holds the nests; Invites is where outstanding nest invitations wait. A nest is for mail you bring in with people you invite — not an organization.
Your projects
Organizations you own. Each opens to Overview (Mails, Shared Mails, and Members inside), then teams listed underneath for project spaces.
Shared with you
Organizations you joined by invitation. Same Overview, Mails, Shared Mails, Members, and teams as spaces you own — just listed apart from Your projects.
Insights → Analytics
Usage against your plan and subscription details. Numbers and billing sit beside mail and projects, not inside them.
Organizations and teams
An organization is the company or studio container. In the sidebar it shows Overview, then teams underneath. Inside Overview you switch between Mails and Members — those are not separate sidebar roots. A team is a project space inside an organization with its own Mails and Members, scoped to that crew.
How personal, team, and organization mail stay separated is in Scopes.
How the areas fit together
Use Mail when the conversation is yours. Use a nest when you want a small shared space for mail you already have. Use an organization or team under Your projects or Shared with you when it belongs to shared work. Analytics doesn’t replace either — it’s there when you need usage or subscription context. Settings (profile, password, Backup Email, two-factor) sit outside the mail sidebar but inside the signed-in product; ownership and leaving Outdraft are in Accounts.
Before you’re signed in
Marketing pages and this documentation live outside the workspace. After you sign in, the sidebar regions above are the product itself.
Read next
Continue with Scopes.