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# Welcome!

The small frictions of the Unity Editor, <mark style="color:blue;">**gone**</mark>. Flow removes the repetitive tasks you do hundreds of times a day inside the editor, so you can spend that time <mark style="color:blue;">**making the game**</mark> instead of moving around the editor.

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Works on <mark style="color:blue;">**Unity 2022.3 and newer, Unity 6.6 included**</mark>, with the Built-in render pipeline, URP and HDRP. A few controls use the main toolbar API that arrived in Unity 6.3; on older versions the same things live inside the Scene view, the Game view and the Inspector instead.
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#### What does <mark style="color:blue;">Flow</mark> do for me?

1. <mark style="color:blue;">**Faster testing:**</mark> play from your first scene with one key, skip the domain reload, restart in one go, or start with the player standing where you are looking.
2. <mark style="color:blue;">**Nothing lost while playing:**</mark> the values you tweak, and the objects you add or delete, during Play Mode are offered back when you stop.
3. <mark style="color:blue;">**Scenes you can read:**</mark> colours, icons, tags, layers and components on every Hierarchy row.
4. <mark style="color:blue;">**Tidy Inspectors:**</mark> headers, foldouts, tabs and buttons for your scripts, without writing editor code.
5. <mark style="color:blue;">**Quicker level building:**</mark> drop to the ground, replace placeholders with prefabs, randomize, measure and save cameras.
6. <mark style="color:blue;">**Always one key away:**</mark> favorites, selection and scene history, and renaming many things at once.
7. <mark style="color:blue;">**Made for teams and agents:**</mark> layouts, colours and templates are shared through version control, and everything can be driven from code or by an AI agent.

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Everything is <mark style="color:blue;">**on by default**</mark>. Import Flow and it is already working: these pages show you where everything is. Anything you do not want can be switched off in `Tools ▸ Flow ▸ Settings`.
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Flow is an <mark style="color:blue;">**editor extension**</mark>: it adds nothing to your builds, apart from the [attributes](/flow-docs/for-programmers/attributes.md) and the [Serialized Dictionary](/flow-docs/for-programmers/serialized-dictionary.md) if your scripts use them. `Tools ▸ Flow ▸ Documentation` opens these pages from the editor.
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#### Where do I start?

<table data-view="cards"><thead><tr><th></th><th></th><th data-hidden data-card-target data-type="content-ref"></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><mark style="color:blue;"><strong>Your First Ten Minutes</strong></mark></td><td><em>A short guided tour, no prior knowledge assumed</em></td><td><a href="/flow-docs/getting-started/your-first-ten-minutes.md">Your First Ten Minutes</a></td></tr><tr><td><mark style="color:blue;"><strong>Play Mode</strong></mark></td><td><em>Start scene, Fast Play and restart</em></td><td><a href="/flow-docs/playing-your-game/play-mode.md">Play Mode</a></td></tr><tr><td><mark style="color:blue;"><strong>Hierarchy</strong></mark></td><td><em>Colour-code your scenes and read them at a glance</em></td><td><a href="/flow-docs/organizing-your-project/hierarchy.md">Hierarchy</a></td></tr><tr><td><mark style="color:blue;"><strong>Organize a Script's Inspector</strong></mark></td><td><em>Headers, foldouts, tabs and buttons</em></td><td><a href="/flow-docs/inspector/organize-a-scripts-inspector.md">Organize a Script's Inspector</a></td></tr><tr><td><mark style="color:blue;"><strong>Placing Objects</strong></mark></td><td><em>Drop, replace and randomize</em></td><td><a href="/flow-docs/building-levels/placing-objects.md">Placing Objects</a></td></tr><tr><td><mark style="color:blue;"><strong>Shortcuts</strong></mark></td><td><em>Every key in one place</em></td><td><a href="/flow-docs/getting-started/shortcuts.md">Shortcuts</a></td></tr></tbody></table>