Layout & panels

The Workspace keeps every part of your work close without locking you into one layout. Move quickly between content and tools, arrange panels around the Board, and clear the frame when you want more room.

The Workspace frame

The Board fills the middle. Your organization and content open from the left. Mesh, your AI agent, opens from the right. The top bar runs across the top, and the Board toolbar sits along the bottom.

The rails open the panels

The vertical button strips on the Workspace's left and right edges are called rails. Choose a button to open its panel; choose it again to close it.

Left rail

  • Holds your organization and content: the Map stays first, and Notes, Library, Images, and Videos drag into whatever order you like.

Right rail

  • Opens Mesh, your AI agent.
Map

The Workspace's Topic tree and Map Context.

Notes

Written pages with the full editor.

Library

PDFs, text, Markdown, and saved web pages.

Images

Uploads, pasted pictures, captures, and generated Images.

Videos

Saved YouTube links that play in their panel.

Auto-collapse this rail

The bottom button folds or restores this edge of the frame.

Mesh

Your conversation and ongoing work with Mesh.

Auto-collapse this rail

The bottom button folds or restores this edge of the frame.

The top bar and Board

The top bar keeps account-wide navigation and Workspace controls in one place.

The Board and its toolbar fill the middle and bottom of the Workspace.

Dock, float, and focus

A panel starts docked, taking its own resizable space beside the Board. Drag its inside edge to change its width. Use the hand-shaped Float button, or drag the panel's header, to lift it over the Board; a floating panel moves by its header and resizes from any edge or corner.

Try it. Drag the panel header, choose the highlighted Float or Dock button, or use Full screen. Close the panel with X, then reopen it from the Notes rail button.

Board

Notes

Research questions

Navigation & Active Topic
Back and Forward revisit content. Go to Active Topic returns to your current Map position. Navigation & search and the Map guide explain both.
Docs guide
The question mark opens this panel's page in these Docs. In the Map, it opens the Topics guide while a Topic Hub is open and the Map guide otherwise. You will find the same help button around the Workspace, and you can hide these buttons in Support. Open Docs in Settings stays available.
Float or dock
The hand lifts a docked panel over the Board; the dock button returns a floating panel to its side.
Focus
Fills the work area with this panel so you can focus on it alone.
Close
Puts the panel away. Its content stays saved.

The sidebar menu inside each panel

Each panel has a sidebar menu for its items and controls. Choose the highlighted Hide Notes list button at the top to collapse it; choose the highlighted dark tab left on the content edge to open it again.

Research questions

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Working questions for the tessellations unit. Each one gets its own answer block underneath once I have worked it through.

  1. Which moves leave a tiling looking untouched?
  2. Why do only three regular shapes tile a plane on their own?

Everything works: search, sort, switch a note, drag the right edge to resize, float or dock the menu, or hide it.

Search
Find an item in this panel by name.
Sort
Choose what orders the list — Last used, Date created, Name, and any others that panel offers. Each choice starts in its natural direction: dates at Newest first, names at A to Z, sizes at Largest first. The chosen row names the direction it is using, and every row carries a reverse toggle for the other half — Oldest first, Z to A, Smallest first — so either order is one tap.
New or add
Creates that panel's kind of content, wearing that panel's own verb: New note, Add to Library, Add image, Add video, or New chat. Each uses the same green plus.
Filter
Where a panel offers filters, narrow the list to what you want to see — a type, a source, a Board page. Nothing chosen shows everything.
Row menu
Use an item's three-dot menu for its available actions.
Float over content
Lay the sidebar menu over the content so the page keeps its full width.
Dock beside content
Give the sidebar menu its own column beside the content.

Collapse the frame

Each edge of the frame can get out of your way on its own. You do not hide an edge by hand — you switch on auto-collapse for it, and from then on it stays tucked away until you reach for it.

Geometry
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Try it. Tap a highlighted button and that piece tucks away. Hover the handle it leaves at the edge to peek, or tap it to bring the piece back.

Each highlighted edge button controls only that part of the frame.

Full canvas, under the top bar at right, changes all four together.

One edge at a time
The top bar, each rail, and the Board toolbar all carry their own switch — Enable header auto-collapse on the top bar, and the matching one on each of the others.
Reach for it and it comes back
A tucked-away edge leaves a small handle behind. Move onto the handle and its controls slide out for as long as you need them, then tuck away again when you move off.
All four at once
Enable full canvas mode at the top-right tucks the top bar, both rails, and the toolbar away together. Disable full canvas mode brings them all back.

Your layout settings are remembered

  • The Workspace remembers your left-rail order, panel widths, and frame-collapse choices.
  • This browser remembers whether the sidebar menu is docked or floating, how wide it is, and each panel's sort choice.
  • Open panels, floating positions, and focus mode last for the current session.