Workspaces

A workspace is a working context: a colour, a name, an assigned folder, and its own starred notes and home page. Switching workspaces switches what the sidebar shows and which notes you’re looking at, without touching anything on disk.

Screenshot workspace-dots.png

The workspace strip with three coloured pills, the active one highlighted.

Workspaces appear as coloured pills. Click one to switch, or cycle with ⌥⇥ and ⌥⇧⇥.

Note

⌥⇥ moves between workspaces. ⌃⇥ moves between tabs inside the current one. They are easy to mix up.

What a workspace holds

Property	What it does
Name	Defaults to “Workspace N”
Colour	From a 20-colour palette; tints the pill and the app icon badge
Assigned file tree	Which folder this workspace shows. Unset means all of them
Home page	A note (or plugin view) opened when you switch to it
Starred notes	Per workspace, not global
Visible	Hide a pill from the strip without deleting it
Active	Inactive workspaces are excluded from the Navigator’s combined view

Set all of this up in Preferences → Workspaces.

Screenshot prefs-workspaces.png

The Workspaces tab in Preferences, listing workspaces with colour, assigned folder and home page settings.

Visible vs. active

These sound alike and are not:

• Visible is about the pill strip. Hidden workspaces still take part in everything else — they are just not shown.
• Active is about search. An inactive workspace’s files are excluded from the Navigator’s combined “all files” view, but you can still select its filter pill directly and see them.

Deactivating is how you park a finished project without deleting it or having its notes turn up in every search.

A worked example

Three workspaces, one Mac:

Workspace	Colour	Tree	Home page
Personal	amber	~/Documents/Notes	Inbox.md
Work	blue	~/Work/notes	This week.md
Archive	grey	~/Archive	— (inactive)

Archive stays out of day-to-day searching but is one click away when needed.

Themes that follow the workspace

Two of the sixteen themes — Chromatic Dark and Chromatic Light — take their accent colour from the active workspace instead of a fixed palette. With those selected, switching workspace re-tints headings, links and list markers, so the colour tells you where you are.

→ Themes