Getting Started: What to Do First

Tutorial · About 2 min

Let's get you from zero to working with your AI assistant in Pane in under two minutes. Watch the video or follow along below.

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Getting Started: What to Do First — Pane

1. Connect your AI

Settings AI tab showing OpenRouter provider, API key field, Claude Opus 5 model, and Save & Test Connection button

Open settings, go to providers, and paste your API key. Anthropic, OpenRouter, or Ollama if you're running local. Pick your model, and you're connected.

2. Create your first project

All Projects view showing existing projects with the + New Project button in the top right

Hit New Project.

3. Name it

Website Redesign project settings showing project name, Demo category, and empty Project Brief

Give it a name. Let's call it Website Redesign.

4. Your board is ready

Empty Website Redesign kanban board with Cabinet, To Do, In Progress, Review, and Done columns

And there's your board: five columns, ready to work.

5. Tell your AI what you're doing

Chat panel showing a message to the AI: We're redesigning my company website with new copy, homepage design, and migrating to a new host

Open the chat and tell your AI what you're doing. Something like: "We're redesigning my company website. The big pieces are new copy, a fresh homepage design, and migrating to a new host. Create tasks for those three things and put the copy task in progress."

6. Watch the board fill up

Kanban board with three tasks created by the AI: Fresh homepage design and Migrate to new host in To Do, New website copy in In Progress

Look at the board. Three cards, right where they belong. That's the thing to understand about Pane: your AI isn't trapped in the chat window. It works the same board you do.

7. It's already remembering

Chat showing the AI adding a 12-section outline to the website copy note, with a memory extraction notification at the bottom

Pane has been remembering this whole conversation. What you're building, what you decided — it's all being kept in its robust memory system. Next session, your AI picks up right where you left off.

8. Go deeper

Full Symbiotic project board showing a mature project with dozens of tasks across Cabinet, To Do, In Progress, Review, and Done columns

That's the start. When you're ready, go deeper: the memory system, smart features that cut your AI costs, templates, folders. There's a short video for each one.

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