- Isolation mode will be useful for working with individual keyboard-layers while still being able to see how things look overall
- Double-click on an object to go into isolation mode automatically
- Use that back arrow in the top-middle thing
- Exit by double-clicking on the artboard
- Select an object with the Direct Selection tool and search for it in a layer and it will list all instances it can find
- Merge selection layers
- Flatten every layer into a single layer
- Select N things and collect in a new layer
- Release to layers
- Make the layer a template
- Option-Show/Hide will hide/show everything but that layer
- Out line others: WOW
- Option-command click to do it too
- Preview all layers to show them again
- Lock Others
- Paste Remembers Layers: Neat
- There are general options for the layer panel itself
- Show Layers Only
- Make layers big
- Do I need sub-layers shown?
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