Hoshidou
Getting Started

Onboarding Tour

What the first-run guided tour covers and how to navigate it.

The onboarding tour is a short guided walkthrough that runs the first time you use HOSHIDOU. It highlights a few key parts of the interface so you know where the main features live before you start exploring on your own. It is purely informational and can be dismissed at any time.

When the Tour Appears

The tour appears automatically for new users, typically on the Home page the first time you arrive. It only runs once - the app remembers your progress, so completing or dismissing the tour means it will not appear again.

If you skip the tour, you will not be left behind. Every feature it points to is also covered in these docs - start with the Home Page guide.

What the Tour Covers

The tour is intentionally short - just a few steps. Each step highlights one part of the UI with a brief explanation, walking you through the essentials such as:

  • The chart on the Home page and what it shows
  • The header controls for changing date, time, and location
  • How to switch between wheel and table views
  • Where to go next once you are ready to register your own birth data

You can move through the tour with on-screen controls or with the keyboard - use the keyboard to step forward and back, and to close the tour. Each step shows where you are in the sequence so you always know how much is left.

Because the tour is informational, there is nothing to fill in and no wrong choices. Move at your own pace and close it whenever you like.

Accessibility

The tour is built to be comfortable to use:

  • Keyboard navigation - step through and dismiss the tour entirely from the keyboard
  • Reduced motion - if your system requests reduced motion, the tour avoids large animated transitions
  • Progress is remembered - the tour does not repeat once you have seen it

After the Tour

Once the tour is done, a good next step is to register your birth data so you can use the personal chart features.