Start page
Your favourite links as a page of tiles, on your Mac, offline.
The start page is a page with your favourite links, served by Waypoint on your Mac. It works offline and needs no server.
Turn it on
Open Settings › Start page and switch on Show the start page. The same place shows the page’s address — click Copy to copy it, and open it in any browser. The address uses Waypoint’s port; if Waypoint had to take another port at start, the address changes, so update it where you use it.
Pages, sections and tiles
Turning it on adds a special group, Start page, to your sidebar. You arrange the page there:
- its groups are pages — with more than one, they show as tabs at the top,
- the groups inside a page are sections,
- the links in a section are tiles.
Drag a page onto Start page, or choose Move to top, to make it the first page. The start page itself can’t be renamed, moved, deleted, shared or made private, and it always keeps one page. Private links and groups are never shown on it.
On the page, type anywhere to find a tile; Enter opens it. Each page has its own Layout (auto, side by side or stacked) and tile Size (small, medium or large), chosen right on the page.
Pick a Style for the page in the same row, or make your own.
A link can have its own icon instead of the site’s (the Dashy import sets them). Remove it with Remove own icon in the link editor.
Show it in your browser
- Brave: open Settings › Appearance and set New tab page shows to Homepage, then paste the page’s address as the Homepage. Every new tab shows your start page.
- Chrome, Edge, Helium and other Chromium browsers: they have no setting for this. An extension that opens a custom address on every new tab (search the browser’s extension store for “new tab redirect”) does the job: paste the page’s address there.
- Firefox and other browsers: the Waypoint panel has a Start page button that opens it in a new tab — handy in Firefox. It shows while the start page is turned on.
Import from Dashy
Coming from Dashy? In Settings › Start page, choose Import from Dashy… and pick your conf.yml (and the other page files it names, if you have them). Dashy’s sections become sections on your start page, its items tiles — with their selfh.st icons. Links you already have in Waypoint are reused, and importing again adds nothing twice.
Turn the start page off in the same place any time; its groups then stay out of the sidebar and group lists, and nothing is deleted.
If you don’t want the start page’s group in the browser panel, switch off Show in the browser panel there: the panel no longer shows it, offers it for saving or marks it “you are here”, while the start page itself keeps working and you arrange it in the desktop window.