Panels & bars

The frame around your board

A workspace is one endless whiteboard with floating chrome around it. Nothing takes over the screen - panels slide open over the board and slide away again, so your work stays in view.

The top bar

The breadcrumb on the left - Home, then your subject, then this workspace - walks you back up a level whenever you like, with a gear beside it for Workspace settings. On the right sit a search box, a Feedback and support button, and your profile picture.

The search box finds subjects and workspaces by name, so from inside Geometry you can jump straight to another workspace without going home first.

One panel a side

Each rail button opens or closes one panel, and only one is open per side at a time - tap a second left button and it swaps rather than stacks. The left rail holds your content; the right rail holds Mesh.

Move through what you've opened

Left panels carry back and forward arrows in their header. They step through whatever you've opened on the left - a note, an artifact, an image, a file, a map, a topic - however you got there: from the picker, from a reference you tapped, or from something Mesh made. Think of it as a trail through your content, not the history of one panel.

The left picker

Most content panels open onto a slim picker down their left edge - the quick controls above a list of everything inside.

Float it, focus it, or close it

Every open panel has a small cluster of buttons in its top corner. Docked to the rail is the everyday state; the rest are there for when you want more room.

Reset width

Snaps a resized panel back to the regular width. Only appears once you've dragged its edge.

Undock

Pops the panel off the rail into a free window you can drag and resize anywhere. The same button docks it back.

Focus

Fills the board with the panel; the rails step aside until you leave. Handy for reading a long artifact.

Close

Tucks the panel away - its rail button brings it right back.

Clear the chrome for a bigger board

Want the whole board? Each edge has a small button that tucks that one bar away, and Full canvas mode in the top bar sweeps them all off at once. When a bar is tucked away, a slim handle appears at its edge - Reveal left rail or Reveal header slides it back. The side rails are floating pills centered over the board, so even open they leave most of it clear.

The toolbar gets out of the way

When an open panel reaches down over the toolbar, the toolbar quietly collapses to a small handle so it's never stuck behind the panel. Tap the handle to bring it back whenever you need to draw.