Spaces and Desks

Room for every
part of your life.

Work, home, a trip, an evening of reading. Each gets its own Space with its own tabs, colour and agent. Inside a Space, Desks lay pages side by side and remember how you left them.

WorkTrip to LisbonReadingHome

17 days to go · 7 open · 2 Desks

Trip to Lisbon

Kept the quietest flat in Alfama. One thing needs your OK.

Desks

Planning ⌥1

Restaurants ⌥2

Open today

The slow way down
Pena Palace tickets
Pastéis de Belém
Tram 28 route
Flights, 14 May
Time Out Lisbon

Pinned

ItineraryCasa do LargoDay trips 2

Note

Things not to miss

Senhora do Monte at sunset. Tram 28 before nine. The original pastéis.

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Spaces

Each part of your day gets its own room.

A Space is a whole browser in miniature. It has its own colour, its own pinned pages and favourites, its own agent and its own memory. Work stays in Work. The trip stays in the trip.

It follows your dayWhen Work's hours begin at 09:00, Tern offers it, with Five More Minutes if you need them. It never switches by itself.
Links land in the right SpaceSet a rule by app or site. Figma links open in Work, airline links in Trip to Lisbon.
Move with two fingersSwipe between Spaces, or press ⌃← and ⌃→. Make a new one with ⇧⌘N.

Your Spaces · 21:40

HomeQuiet since Sunday
Trip to LisbonNeeds your OK
WorkClosed at 18:00 · Morning opens at 09:00
Reading3 saved for tonight

⌃← ⌃→ or two fingers to move · ↩ Enter · ⌘↑ Open its Room

Four Spaces, one Mac

Each keeps its own pages, Desks and agent.

Work

Mail, calendar and the project board on one Desk. Offered at 09:00.

Agent knows standup is at 09:00

Home

Shared with Ana. Groceries, school and the flat, after 18:00.

Agent remembers swimming is on Thursdays

Trip to Lisbon

Flights, the flat and the places Ana saved. Airline links open here.

Agent watches the flight price

Reading

Long reads, opened in Reader with ⇧⌘R. Quiet, no work tabs.

Agent summarises when you ask

Your next Space: a course, a side project, a house move. Give it a name, a colour and its hours. ⇧⌘N

The Room

The whole Space, laid out like a table.

Pinch out, or press ⌘↑, and the page steps back into its Space. Everything that belongs to it is on the table, and esc puts you back on the page.

DesksEach one as you left it, with ⌥1 beside its name.
Open todayThe pages you opened today, as cards you can drag together into a Desk.
PinnedPages and folders that stay in this Space when you close them.
A noteOne line or a whole plan, kept on the table where you will see it.
Tasks and the LibrarySwitch the table to the Space's tasks, or to everything you kept from pages.
Search or askThe horizon searches only this Space, and the agent answers about it.

Desks

Lay pages side by side. They stay that way.

A Desk puts the pages you use together on one surface. Mail beside the calendar. The brief beside the design. Switch Desks with ⌥1 to ⌥9 and each one comes back exactly as you left it.

The Planning Desk in Trip to Lisbon: the Park and National Palace of Pena beside a map of Lisbon, with the horizon naming the Desk
It remembers everythingEach page, where you scrolled and how wide it sits. Close the lid on Friday and Monday starts on the same line.
Make one by draggingDrag a page up from the tray onto another and they sit side by side. Choose Save as Desk to keep them.
See yesterday's DeskLook at a Desk as it was yesterday, then bring back the pages you need in a pane.
Share a Desk as a linkMarta opens it and the same pages lay out side by side in her own Tern. Your other tabs and sign-ins stay your own.
The shelf out at the left edge in Trip to Lisbon: its Planning Desk, pinned pages and folders, and today's pages

The shelf

What you keep, at the left edge.

Move the pointer to the left edge and the shelf slides out over the page: the Space's favourites as tiles, its Desks, its pinned pages and folders, and today's pages. Move away and it goes. Press ⌘S to keep it open.

Pin by draggingDrop a page on a folder to pin it there, or on the tiles to make a favourite. Or press ⌘D.
Pinned pages stayClose a pinned page and it is still on the shelf tomorrow, in this Space and no other.

The tab tray

Today's pages, risen from the horizon.

Click the Space's name in the horizon and today's pages rise in a tray of cards. Move through them with ⌃⇥, drag one up to make a Desk, or drag it to the shelf to pin it.

A new page⌘T opens one in the Space you are in. ⌘W closes it, and ⇧⌘T brings it back.
The agent's pages show itA card the agent is working in carries a small orange mark, so you know which page not to touch.
Today's pages in Trip to Lisbon, risen from the horizon as cards, two of them asleep

The command bar ⌘T

One place to type.

The horizon grows into the command bar. Type a few letters and it finds Spaces, open tabs, pinned pages, history and actions together. Press ⇥ and the same words go to the agent.

The command bar with Lisb typed: pinned pages, a tab, a search, and making a task or asking the agent
A link preview of the Belém Tower article over the Planning Desk, with Open, Open Beside and Pin

Link preview

Look before you go.

Hold ⇧ and click a link, and the page opens in a card over the one you are reading. Open it, open it beside this one as a Desk, or pin it for later.

Open today · Trip to Lisbon3 asleep

Casa do Largo Flights, 14 May Tram 28 routeAsleep since 14:10 · wakes when you open it Pastéis de Belém Fado in Alfama

Closed today · 4⇧⌘T

Weather in Lisbon, May16:42 Zé da Mouraria, menu14:05

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Sleeping tabs

Pages rest when you do not need them.

Pages you have not looked at for a while fall asleep and dim in the tray. They wake on a click, where you left them, scrolled to the same line. What you closed today waits under them until midnight.

Recall

Find what you read
by what you remember.

You remember the garden, not the hotel's name. Type it into ⌘T and Recall finds the sentence you read, then opens the page at that passage.

Pages you have read · 3 passagesSearched on this Mac only

Casa Alfama, roomscasaalfama.pt/roomsOpen at Passage ↩

The Garden Room opens onto our walled garden, with a lemon tree and a quiet table for breakfast under the vines.

Trip to Lisbon · Tuesday 14:10 · read 4 min · from Lisboa Lenta

Where to stay in Alfamalisboalenta.pt/stay

Behind a blue door, this little hotel hides a garden so quiet you forget the trams are two streets away.

Why the courtyard is the best room in the houseslowrooms.example

Reading · Sunday 11 October 08:05 · read 9 min

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The words, nothing elseTern keeps the text of pages you spend time on. No screenshots, no forms, nothing you type.
On this Mac onlyNot synced to iCloud or your other devices. The agent reads it only when you ask.
You choose what it keepsA month, three months or a year. Turn it off per Space. Banks, health and mail are never kept, and neither are private windows.
Forget in one stepForget a day, a site or everything, from Settings › Recall.

Closing and starting the day

Close Work at six. Open it where you stopped.

The card that closes Trip to Lisbon for the day: tidy today's pages, keep the Desks, write a three-line note and hold the agent until 09:00

Inbox 3 new since 18:00

Tuesday 3 November

Q3 notes

Back where you were yesterday at 17:58Restored 09:00 · 5 notifications held overnight

  1. Q3 notes: open questions half written
  2. Lease reply to Tomás drafted, not sent
  3. Hollis proofs arrive Wednesday
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At the end of the dayWhen a Space's hours end, the horizon rises into a card. Close it and today's pages are tidied, your Desks kept as they are, and notifications held until morning. Tern writes where you stopped in three lines, from your tabs on this Mac, and you can edit them.
In the morningOpen Work and the Desk comes back as it was at 17:58, scroll and all. The three lines wait in the Room, and each one opens its page at the spot you left.

Everyday tools

The small things, done properly.

Reader ⇧⌘RStrip a page back to its words and pictures, and read it in peace.
TranslateTranslate a selection or the whole page. Your Mac's own translation does the work, on your Mac.
Find ⌘FFind on the page, with every match marked. Press ⌘G for the next one.
Reopen Closed Tab ⇧⌘TBring back the page you just closed, or find any page from today in History with ⌘Y.
Private window ⇧⌘PNo Space's agent can see it. It has an agent of its own, and nothing is kept after you close it.
Import ⇧⌘IBring your tabs from Safari, Chrome, Arc and others in one step.

Start with one Space.

Bring your tabs over in one step, then add Spaces as your day asks for them.

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