The canvas

Tidying the canvas

Tidy up now

Four paths do the same thing: ⌥O, the grid button in the bottom bar, ⌘K (type "organizar") and voice. The key can be changed in Settings → Shortcuts, under "Organizar".

The command arranges the panels of the work area you are in, with no overlap, and does not switch the canvas mode.

  • The camera returns to 100% and frames what was arranged, not the whole canvas.
  • Detached panels stay where they are. The grid tightens to go around them. A design panel is never covered.
  • Images do not join the grid. They only slide out from under the panels, into the nearest free spot, at the size they had.
  • The notice that appears carries the Undo, and the same button redoes what you undid. It does not survive quitting the app.

Letting the app arrange them

The two-icon switch in the bottom bar alternates between auto grid and free canvas. Switching modes also posts a notice with Undo: going back to the grid discards the positions you set by hand.

In the auto grid:

  • Panels fill the window and redistribute themselves when one is born, when one closes and when the window is resized.
  • Dragging a panel by its header swaps it with the panel whose slot is nearest to where you dropped it, within the same area. Detached panels are not part of the swap.
  • The minimap in the bottom-right corner opens the arrangements available for the number of open panels: Automático, one option per column count (from one up to the panel total) and Foco, which gives the larger space to one panel and stacks the rest. Foco uses the selected panel, or the first one.

In the free canvas nothing moves on its own. See panels and the desk and panning and zooming.

The mode, the chosen arrangement, the focused panel and the camera position are remembered per work area.

Saved arrangements

Saving

A pill reading Save recipe appears on its own once the arrangement settles, with a name already suggested. It only offers itself with two or more panels in the area, waits about a second without you touching anything, disappears after a few seconds, and does not appear if the current arrangement already matches a recipe you have.

The bookmark in the bottom bar opens the book at any time, and there you find Save the current one.

Going back

In the book, Back restores that row's recipe. Typing its name in ⌘K and pressing Enter does the same. Each row says how many panels the recipe knew, how many of them no longer exist, how many new panels will stay on screen, and when it was made.

Restoring never opens or closes a panel: it only positions.

  • A panel from the recipe that no longer exists is ignored.
  • A panel born afterwards stays open, and is fitted into whatever space is left.
  • Each panel is found again by what it is, not by an internal number: an agent by its conversation, a browser by its address, a file by its path, a note by which note it is.

Each row's menu has Overwrite with the current arrangement, Rename and Delete.

Recipes belong to each project, and store the arrangement of the work area you were in.

By voice

  • "tidy up the windows", "remove the overlap": the same as ⌥O.
  • "put it in two columns", "three columns", "focus on Perseu": changes the grid arrangement.
  • "save this arrangement as PR review": saves a recipe under that name. It touches no panel.
  • "go back to the pairing arrangement": restores the recipe, without opening or closing panels.