Welcome
This site aims to be a comprehensive guide to Tonic. We’ll cover topics such as getting Tonic up and running, creating and managing your data, customizing the way Tonic works and looks, deploying to various environments, and give you some advice on participating in the future development of Tonic itself.
So what is Tonic, exactly?
Tonic is a simple, fast, visualization tool for analyzing and visualizing your data. It takes a directory containing raw data files in various formats, runs it through converters, and spits out complete, web-based analysis and visualization tools.
Helpful Hints
Throughout this guide there are a number of small-but-handy pieces of information that can make using Tonic easier, more interesting, and less hazardous. Here’s what to look out for.
ProTips™ help you get more from Tonic
These are tips and tricks that will help you be a Tonic wizard!
Notes are handy pieces of information
These are for the extra tidbits sometimes necessary to understand Tonic.
Warnings help you not blow things up
Be aware of these messages if you wish to avoid certain death.
You'll see this by a feature that hasn't been released
Some pieces of this website are for future versions of Tonic that are not yet released.
If you come across anything along the way that we haven’t covered, or if you know of a tip you think others would find handy, please file an issue and we’ll see about including it in this guide.