Workspaces

Create a workspace

1. 1

   Choose New Workspace

   Choose File ▸ New Workspace… or press ⇧⌘N.

2. 2

   Name it and pick a folder

   In the save panel, the file name starts as Untitled.workspace. Change the name, choose where it goes, and click Save.

3. 3

   Start writing

   The new workspace has an empty Inbox. A card shows the first keys to try.

A workspace folder is named with the .workspace extension. Choose a place you can find again, because that folder holds your notes.

Open a workspace you already have

1. 1

   Choose Open Workspace

   Choose File ▸ Open Workspace… or press ⌘O.

2. 2

   Pick the folder

   Select the workspace folder and click Open. The app remembers it for the lists below.

A workspace can be open in one copy of Superliner at a time. If another copy holds it, Superliner says so and offers Show Open Window when that copy is running.

Switch between workspaces

Click the workspace name at the top of the sidebar. A menu opens with three groups: Open Workspace… and New Workspace…, then every workspace the app remembers, with a check mark beside the one you are in, then the commands for the current workspace. Choose a name from the list to open that workspace.

The same list is in Settings ▸ Workspaces. Each remembered workspace has a row with its name, a Show in sidebar checkbox, and an Open button, or a Current mark when it is the one you are in. Its More menu holds Show in Finder and Remove from List.

What a workspace keeps

A workspace keeps its notes, its supertags, fields and saved searches, its Trash, its attachments and its undo history apart from every other workspace. Your notes are files in the workspace folder, and the Markdown copy is written to an exports folder inside it. The undo history is not saved in the folder, so it starts again when you reopen the workspace.

To move notes to another app or another workspace, export a page as OPML or import an OPML or Markdown file. See Import and export.

Back up and restore

Back up a workspace to a verified, self-contained folder, and restore it as a new workspace.

Choose Back Up Workspace… from the workspace menu or File, then choose the folder the backup is built in. Restore Backup as New Workspace… asks for the backup and then for a new location. It refuses a folder that already holds a workspace. See Back up and restore.

Take a workspace off the list

Open Settings ▸ Workspaces, click the More button on the workspace's row, and choose Remove from List. The workspace leaves the lists in the sidebar and in Settings. Its folder and notes stay where they are, and you can add it again with Open Workspace….

Combine it

• Back up before a changeBack up the workspace, then try a restructure in it. A backup is a folder you can restore as a new workspace.
• A second windowFile ▸ New Window (⌥⌘N) opens another window on the same workspace.
• Find the filesShow in Finder opens the folder, where your notes, the Markdown copy and attachments are kept.
• Settings for each workspaceJournaling, the Markdown folder and the Workspaces pane are set in Settings.

Limits

• A workspace saved by a newer build opens read-only. You can read, search and back it up, but nothing is saved.
• A workspace can be open in one copy of Superliner at a time.