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

  1. 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.
  2. Name it.Type a name and press Return.
  3. Give it a look.Right-click its icon in the strip and choose from Icon and Color.
  4. 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

Keyboard shortcuts for Spaces
ActionKeys
New Space⇧⌘N
Go to Space 1 to 9⌘1to⌘9
Pin or Unpin Tab⌘D
Show Overview⇧⌘O

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