Home & Content Browsing
Home
By default, Home in the sidebar shows these sections from top to bottom:
| Section | What's there |
|---|---|
| Today / Next Trip | A countdown to your next trip (during a trip, it shows which day of the trip it is), the number of companions and bookings, and what's "Up Next". Open the trip from here, or go straight to its itinerary, passes, or expenses. If you don't have a trip yet, click "Go to Travel Hub" to create or import one. |
| Explore by Destination | Popular destinations (ordered by recent articles, with article counts). Click "View all" to go to Destination. |
| Latest Articles | The newest articles, which you can filter by "Region"; click "More Articles" to keep browsing. |
| Forum Topics | The latest forum threads with reply counts; click "Go to Forum" to open the Forum. |
| Newsletter | Enter your email, choose a frequency, and click "Subscribe". You'll get a confirmation email, and the newsletter starts only after you click the link in it. Every newsletter has a link at the bottom to change the frequency or unsubscribe. |
When the window is wide enough, the right side of Home shows "Today" (the date and weather: during a trip, the weather where your trip's places are; at other times, the weather in Taipei) and "Notifications" (forum notifications and replies, sign-in required; click "All Notifications" to open the forum's notifications page in your browser). In a narrower window, click "Today" in the toolbar.
The toolbar also has "Customize Home" and "Bookmarks / Reading History". Press ⌘R to refresh.
Customize Home
Click "Customize Home" in the toolbar. Turn off a switch to hide that section on Home, drag sections to reorder them, or click "Restore Defaults" to go back to the default order. These settings apply only to this Mac and are saved separately for each layout.
Service Status & Announcement Banners
- Service status: when a 櫻佑旅遊 service is under maintenance or has a problem, the top of Home explains which services are affected. Status that doesn't affect the app (for example, only YUCTS Transit) appears in a quieter style and says the app isn't affected. Click "View Status" for details, or "Don't Show Again" to dismiss that status. If the latest status can't be loaded, the banner says "Status may be out of date".
- Announcements: official announcements appear at the top of Home. Click "View" to open one or "Close" to hide it.
Article Pages
Articles appear in the app's native view. Below the title are the author (click to open the author page), the date, and the category. Articles the website marks as containing ads or sponsored content show "Contains ads / affiliate links". At the end of an article are "About the author" and "Related Articles".
| Where | What it does |
|---|---|
| Contents | For articles with a table of contents, it appears on the left in wide windows; you can also click "Contents" in the toolbar. |
| Bookmark (⌘D) | Bookmarks the article or removes the bookmark. |
| Share | Shares the article with the macOS share menu. |
| More Actions | "Copy Link" (⇧⌘C), "Save for Offline" / "Remove offline", and "Open in Browser". |
In wide windows, the right column also shows the author, the "Bookmark", "Copy Link", "Save for Offline", and "Website" buttons, and related articles. Links in an article to yucts.com or the forum open directly in the app.
Bookmarks / Reading History
Click "Bookmarks / Reading History" in the Home toolbar to open a panel with four tabs:
- Bookmark: articles you bookmarked on the article page (⌘D).
- Reading History: articles you've opened on this Mac.
- Recommended: recommendations appear here after you've read 5 or more articles.
- Offline: articles you saved for offline, which you can read without a connection.
Click an article in a list to open it, or Control-click it to open it or add or remove the bookmark. Click "Done" to close the panel.
Deals
Deals in the sidebar lists travel deals from yucts.com articles and the forum.
- Filter by "Source" (All, Blog, Forum), "Brands", or "Topic". Brands and topics come from the tags on the website's articles.
- Click a card once to see its details on the right; double-click it or press Return to open it (articles open in the app, and forum deals open in the Forum). The details also offer "Visit Website" and "Copy Link".
- Sponsored deals are marked "Ad / PR", and pinned forum deals are marked "Pinned".
- Discount codes, validity periods, and conditions are as stated in the article and on the partner's website. YUCTS may earn a commission from your purchase.
Destination
On the left of Destination in the sidebar are region categories (Taiwan, Japan, and more), which you can expand and collapse and which show article counts. On the right are the selected region's introduction, places, areas, and articles (including articles in subcategories).
- Click "Map" in the toolbar to browse on a map. Click a place on the map to select the matching region on the left and list its articles.
- Keyboard: ↑ ↓ to select, → to expand, ← to collapse or go up a level.
Authors
Authors in the sidebar introduces the 櫻佑旅遊 author team.
- Left column: browse by the website's author categories, with the number of authors in each.
- Middle column: author cards. Press ⌘F to search authors by name, title, or introduction.
- Right column (author preview): after you select an author, shows their introduction, social links, and latest articles. It appears only in wide windows; press ⌥⌘I to show or hide it. In a narrower window, double-click an author card to open it in a window.
- Control-click an author to "Open Author Page in Browser", "Copy Link", or open their "Forum Profile".
- "Writers & team" in the toolbar takes you to the author page on the website, "Join the Author Team", or "Contact the team" (in your browser).
⌘K Search
Press ⌘K to open the search panel, which searches site articles and forum threads together. See Menu Bar & Keyboard Shortcuts.