How it works

Organize and find

Order is added on top of things; nothing is ever moved into a folder to be organised.

Tags

  • A tree, not a list. A tag can hold tags, and tagging descends the tree when you want it to.
  • A tag on a selection is a highlight in that tag's colour — one gesture, both results.
  • A type is the question a tag answers: Domain, Topic, Theme, Space, Context, Activity, Class.
  • Typed frames draw a border round a passage and name what it is — Definition, Quote, Formula — and a frame can sit inside a frame.
  • Namespaces keep two axes of the same name apart, and are inherited down the tree.

Where things sit

  • The bucket — a holding place for references waiting to be pasted, and a history of the ones already used.
  • 📌 Pin a pane or a tag and it stays one click away, from the feed as much as the canvas.
  • 🧷 Stick a pane to another and the stack follows and aligns as one.
  • 🧩 Organize by type lays the whole canvas out by what each pane is.

Ways back to a pane

WayKeysBest for
The command line⌘KAnything, by name — open, tag, filter, create, export
Pane searchCtrl + SpaceA pane whose title you half remember
The pane switcher⌥ + TabThe handful you are moving between right now
The radial picker⌥ + Q, heldThe recent ones, without looking away from the mouse
Pane history⌘Z / ⇧⌘ZRetracing where you have just been
The minimapSeeing the whole canvas and jumping across it
The feed filter↑ ↓ then EnterFinding it by when you made it
The tag canvasFinding it by what it is about
The complete list of keys lives in the app, not here: press ? anywhere for the cheat sheet. It is built from the same list the app obeys, so it cannot disagree with what your keyboard does.