Initial structure of the user manual.

CHANGELOG.md

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 * Fixes
     * Fix drop shadow on comments bubbles being rendered instead of the base background color.
 * New Features
+    * User manual
 
 ## Version 1.0.1
 
 * Changes
 * Fixes
 * New Features
-    * Adds ability to report a post/comment by redirecting to a WebView browser session on the Friendica website for
+    * Adds ability to report a post/comment by redirecting to a WebView browser session on the
+      Friendica website for
       that user. Currently, Friendica doesn't support the reporting API endpoint.
-    * User can toggle on whether to confirm reporting a post/comment confirmation dialog box. Default is on.
-    * Requires users to agree to abide by the server rules for the account's server when signing in as their respective
+    * User can toggle on whether to confirm reporting a post/comment confirmation dialog box.
+      Default is on.
+    * Requires users to agree to abide by the server rules for the account's server when signing in
+      as their respective
       user.
 
 ## Version 1.0.0

user_manual.md

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+# Relatica User Manual
+
+## Introduction
+
+[Friendica(https://friendi.ca/) is a free and open source decentralized social network project that
+allows users and/or organizations to create a social network server that operates with a similar
+sort of user experience idiom as Facebook (posts/comments threads, groups, etc). It interacts with
+software projects like [Mastodon](https://mastodon.social/) (a Twitter-like decentralized social
+network), [PixelFed](https://pixelfed.org/) (an Instagram-like decentralized social network),
+and [PeerTube](https://peertube.tv/) (a YouTube-like decentralized social network) to create a web
+of interacting users and content that combined create a network of millions of users across
+thousands of servers called "the fediverse" or "social web". [Elena Rossini]() has
+created [this great video](https://news.elenarossini.com/fediverse-video/) to help describe this
+concept in a very approachable way.
+
+The Friendica project itself is solely focused on the development of the server side software. It
+does not host any "main" instance. All Friendica hosts are independent. At the time of this writing
+there are approximately 80 "public" servers in
+the [Friendica directory site](https://dir.friendica.social/) from which users can choose
+to join. The [Fediverse Observer](https://friendica.fediverse.observer/stats) statistics site shows
+over 280 active Friendica servers on the fediverse, hosting thousands of users writing millions of
+posts/comments each month.
+
+The Friendica project also does not write any client side software for mobile/desktop devices.
+Instead it has implemented application programming interfaces (APIs) that allow independent projects
+to interface with the server software programmatically. There have been other independent mobile
+apps that can interface with Friendica. Some projects have even targeted Friendica directly for
+Android. At the beginning of this project there was no project for iOS however.
+
+Relatica represents an independent development to develop a mobile and desktop client for Friendica
+that will allow users to interface with Friendica servers that they have accounts on. It will allow
+them to create/edit/delete posts, take pictures to upload, check notifications on posts they've
+written, basically most of the usual types of things that one likes to do with Friendica or any
+other social network. By "independent" I mean that the project is not a part of nor receives any
+official sanction from the Friendica project itself.
+
+## Document Overview
+
+This manual is a brief tour of various common features of the Relatica Friendica client and how to
+use them. Many of the features are self explanatory and common for a social network application.
+Many of the workflows follow the same paradigm that the main Friendica website uses. Others are more
+unique and/or configurable. This manual attempts to make those features and/or workflows more clear.
+
+## Unique Features
+
+* Slow network assistance: Low Bandwidth mode and request timeout controls
+* Focus Mode
+* Non-infinite scroll
+* Filters
+* Per Network Capabilities Management
+
+## Tabs
+
+### Timelines
+
+#### Timeline Types
+
+* My Posts
+* My Network
+* Global Fediverse
+* Local Fediverse
+* Circles
+* Groups
+* Channels
+
+#### Post/Comment actions
+
+* Clicking on a post
+* Popup menu
+    * Open post (same as clicking on it)
+    * Show Likers
+    * Show Reshares
+    * Block User
+    * Report Post/Comment
+    * Open in Browser
+    * Copy URL
+    * Copy Post Text
+
+### Notifications
+
+### Contacts
+
+### Explore
+
+#### Searching
+
+#### Trending
+
+* Global Tags
+* Local Tags
+* Statuses
+* Links
+
+#### Followed Tags
+
+#### Suggested Users
+
+## Drawer Menu
+
+### Profile Management
+
+### Focus Mode
+
+### Gallery Viewing/Management
+
+### Direct Messages
+
+### Blocks
+
+### Filters
+
+### Circles Management
+
+### Settings
+
+#### Low Bandwidth Mode
+
+#### Network Request Timeout
+
+#### Group Notifications by Type
+
+#### Spoiler/Content Warning Hiding
+
+#### Confirm Reporting Prompt
+
+#### Open Tags in App
+
+#### Dark Mode Theme Setting
+
+#### Clear Local Caches
+
+#### Logging (Setting Level and Viewing)
+
+#### Network Capabilities
+
+## Moderation
+
+### Reporting Posts/Comments
+
+* No API method for doing reports so must be done in Friendica UI proper
+* Workflow for report
+    * Menu item
+    * Confirm (user configurable)
+    * iOS Launches WebView with the post/comment highlighted
+    * Android?
+
+### Blocking a User
+
+### Managing User Blocks
+
+### Filtering
+
+### Controlling Spoiler/Content Warning/Hiding