Configure sessions

These guides show you how to tell the GUI where a session’s data is. Every key you can use is listed in Session YAML, and Shanks, probes and configurations explains how shanks, probes and configurations fit together.

There are two ways to point the GUI at your data:

A data folder

If all the files for a single-shank probe are in one folder, you can open that folder directly, with no extra setup.

A session YAML

For anything else, write a short YAML file that lists where each dataset is. You need one when:

• the datasets of a probe are in different folders

• the probe has more than one shank, sorted together or one shank at a time

• you want to show two versions of the same recording side by side

• several probes share folders, and you want to avoid repeating the paths

Start with How to open a session, then pick the guide that matches your data below.

• How to open a session
• How to write a session YAML for one probe
• How to load shanks that were sorted together
• How to load shanks that were sorted separately
• How to compare two versions of a recording
• How to avoid repeating paths in a session YAML