This is the last post in the Getting Started series. It's the one most people scroll past, until the first time Horse closes unexpectedly and they want to know what happens to everything in the sidebar. The short answer: it stays.
Closing Horse
- Click the X at the top to close the window. Horse keeps running.
- To quit fully, right-click the dock icon and choose Quit, or go to Menu > Horse > Quit Horse, or press ⌘ + Q (Mac) / Ctrl + Q (Win/Linux).
Updating Horse
- A notification shows up when an update is ready.
- Quit and reopen Horse whenever it's convenient. The new version installs on relaunch.
- Worth doing regularly, bug fixes and small wins land most weeks.
Saving your Trails
You don't. Horse does it for you. Every Trail, every page, every Note is written to disk as you go, and they're all back in the sidebar the next time you open the browser. A crash, a forced restart, the laptop running out of battery: none of it loses your work. Horse treats the sidebar like a Notes app, not like a session.
For an extra-cautious offline backup, the save offline backup guide covers exporting everything to a file you can keep elsewhere.
That's the series
You've done all five. Where to from here:
- The manual covers everything else: sidebar tweaks, dark mode, the ad blocker, sync, password manager.
- If Horse is now sitting alongside another browser and you're not sure how it fits the rest of your life, why Horse exists for ADHD brains is the long-form version of that.
All posts in this series:
