Your first Space

The second and third steps of the first run set up your Spaces and make your first Desk. This page walks through both, and shows where to change your choices later.

What a Space is

A Space is a part of your life in its own place: Work, Home, a trip. Each one keeps its own tabs, pinned tabs, sign-ins and agent, and the window takes on the colour of the Space you're in. Signing in to a site in one Space doesn't sign you in to it in another.

Set up your Spaces

The Spaces step lists the Spaces that came across when you imported, each with how many tabs it holds. If you didn't import, it starts with one.

1. Name each Space.Click a Space's name and type a new one.
2. Give it a colour.Click the coloured dot beside the name and choose a colour.
3. Tell Tern when it's yours.Choose its hours: Any time, Weekdays 09:00 to 18:00 or Evenings and weekends.
4. Add more if you like.Choose Add a Space, or start from Side project, Family or Study.

When a Space's hours begin while you're in another, Tern offers to take you there. It never switches by itself. Spaces for your day explains hours in full, including different hours for each day.

Make your first Desk

A Desk lays two, three or four pages side by side and opens with ⌥1. The Desk step offers a few places to start:

• Morning holds mail, a calendar and Linear.
• Review holds pull requests and a design.
• Research holds a search, its sources and the agent.
• Your own is made from the tabs you have open.

Pick one to see the pages it holds, then choose Continue. The step says which Space the Desk joins. If that Space has hours, it opens on this Desk when its hours begin. Tern remembers each pane, down to where you were reading, so the Desk opens as you left it.

The last two steps

The Agent step shows what the agent would do, with a short example. It stays off unless you turn it on; until then no page is read. To turn it on later, see Add your Claude key.

The Ready step asks whether to share anonymous usage counts, off until you turn it on. Choose Start Browsing and your window opens with your Spaces and Desk in place.