A Desk's history

Tern keeps a Desk's history as you work in it. Look back at how a Desk was laid out earlier, restore it or open it as a copy, and bring back pages you have closed since.

Open a Desk's history

A Desk has a history once it has changed at least once since you made it. With the Desk open, use any of these:

• The menu: Split View › Desk History, or ⌥⌘Y.
• The toolbar: the More button, then Desk History.
• The sidebar: right-click a Desk under Desks and choose History. This opens the Desk first if it isn't open.

Look back

The history shows the Desk's saved moments along a line, a day at a time. Click a moment, or use the arrows beside History to step to an earlier or later one. For the moment you choose, Tern shows what each pane held, with the page's title and address, and tells you when you left the Desk like that.

Nothing changes until you choose. Tern keeps no pictures of pages, so you see which pages were there, not how they looked at the time.

Restore or copy

1. Choose a moment.Pick the moment you want to go back to.
2. Restore it, or make a copy.Restore This Desk lays the Desk out as it was then. Open as a Copy makes a new Desk from that moment and leaves this one as it is.
3. Or leave it.Choose Back to Now, or press Esc, to close the history with nothing changed.

Bring back closed pages

Beside the moments, Closed since lists the pages that were in the Desk at that moment and have been closed since. Choose Bring Back beside a page, or Bring All Back. They open as tabs, and what's on screen doesn't change.

For a tab you closed a moment ago, ⇧⌘T is quicker. See Reopen closed tabs.

What Tern keeps

• A moment is saved when you make or save a Desk, and when an open Desk takes in a change. Changes within ten minutes of each other count as one moment.
• Up to 120 moments are kept for each Desk, over the last 60 days.
• On this Mac only. A Desk's history isn't synced. It stays on the Mac, like your browsing history.