Make a Space
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A Space keeps one part of your life together: its tabs, its sign-ins, its colour and its own agent. Make one for work, one for home, one for a trip, and move between them with a key.
What a Space keeps
- Its own sign-ins. Cookies and logins never cross from one Space to another, so you can be signed in to two accounts on the same site, one in each Space.
- Its own tabs. Pinned tabs and folders at the top, the tabs you open below them, and its Desks.
- Its own look. A colour and an icon. The window takes on the colour of the Space you're in.
- Its own agent. The agent reads tabs only in its own Space, remembers what you tell it there, and can use a different Claude model from other Spaces.
Make a new Space
- Start a Space.Press ⇧⌘N, or click the + at the end of the Spaces strip at the top of the sidebar and choose New Space.
- Name it.Type a name and press Return.
- Give it a look.Right-click its icon in the strip and choose from Icon and Color.
- Fill it.Open the pages you use there, and sign in to them. Pin the ones you use every day with ⌘D.
A Space's menu
Right-click a Space's icon in the strip, or open the menu beside the line under the strip, to change it:
- Rename… gives it a new name. Spaces › Rename Space… does the same for the open Space.
- Rhythm… sets its hours, the Desk it opens on and the links that open in it. See Spaces for your day.
- Icon and Color change how it looks.
- Share Space… invites people to view or edit it. See Share a Space.
- Delete Space… removes it. Tern always keeps at least one Space, and a shared Space has to stop being shared first.
To choose which Claude model a Space's agent uses, open Settings › Agents and find Model for each Space.
Move between Spaces
Click a Space's icon in the strip, or press ⌘1to⌘9 for your first nine Spaces, in the order they sit in the strip. The Spaces menu lists them too.
To see every Space at once, open Overview with ⇧⌘O. Drag a page onto another Space's row to move it there. Because each Space has its own sign-ins, the page opens again in its new Space.
TipRight-click a link to open it in another Space, or to pin it to any Space, without leaving the page you're on.
Shortcuts
| Action | Keys |
|---|---|
| New Space | ⇧⌘N |
| Go to Space 1 to 9 | ⌘1to⌘9 |
| Pin or Unpin Tab | ⌘D |
| Show Overview | ⇧⌘O |
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