Tabs

Everything you open lands as a tab across the top of the editor. A few moves turn that strip from a flat list into a layout you control: stacking related tabs into a single slot, pinning the ones you always want open, and splitting the editor so you see more than one at once.

Drag one tab onto the middle of another to stack them. Click the stack to open it, switch which tab is showing, or close one.

Stack related tabs

A stack collapses several tabs into one slot. Instead of five separate tabs eating your tab strip, you get a single tab that holds them all and shows one at a time. It is a tidy way to keep a cluster of related things together (a note and the prompts it uses, a plan and its three sub-notes) without spending a split on them.

Make a stack

Drag one tab onto the middle of another and hold for a moment. Hovering the center of a tab highlights it to show it will accept the drop. Release, and the two become a stack. Drag onto the edge of a tab instead and you simply reorder, so the center is the part that matters.

You can keep adding: drag a third tab onto a stack and it joins the others.

Work inside a stack

A stacked tab shows the title of whichever tab is active, plus a small count of how many it holds. Click it to open the Stack flyout, a short list of everything inside.

• Switch which tab is showing by clicking a row in the list. The stacked tab’s title and the editor update to match.
• Close a tab in the stack with the X on its row.
• Pull one back out by dragging its row out of the flyout and onto the tab strip, where it becomes its own tab again.

When a stack is down to its last two and you remove one, the stack collapses back into a plain tab on its own. Nothing is ever trapped inside a stack.

What sticks

Stacks are part of your layout, so they survive a restart. Reopen the workspace and your stacks are exactly as you left them, including which tab inside each one was active. Pinning applies to the whole stack, not the tabs inside it.

Pin the tabs you always want open

Some tabs you never want to lose track of: a running plan, a reference you check all day, the note you are living in this week. Pin them and they stay put.

Right-click a tab and choose Pin (right-click again for Unpin). A pinned tab:

• Moves to the front of the strip and stays there. Pinned tabs always sit to the left of unpinned ones, with a small divider between the two groups.
• Shrinks to its icon with a one-letter badge, to save room. Prefer the full title? Turn off Collapse Pinned Tabs in Settings.
• Loses its close button, so you cannot shut it by accident. It is also skipped by Close Others and Close All, which only touch unpinned tabs. To close a pinned tab, unpin it first.

Pinning is per pane, so each split can keep its own set of always-open tabs, and it survives a restart along with the rest of your layout.

Split the view

To see two things at once, drag an editor tab to the edge of the editor area. Drop it on the left or right to split into columns, or on the top or bottom to split into rows. Drag the divider between panes to balance them, and drag tabs between panes to rearrange. It is the same move whether you are comparing two notes or keeping a plan open beside the note that details it.

Stacks and splits compose: each pane has its own tab strip, and any tab in any pane can be a stack. So you might keep a plan in the left pane and, in the right, a stack of every note that plan touches.

Where to find this

Tabs live across the top of the editor area. Drag to stack or to split, right-click to pin, click a stacked tab to open its flyout, and your whole arrangement is remembered between sessions.

Where to go next

• Getting around: the command palette, panels, and the rest of moving fast.
• Canvas: an infinite space for when tabs are not the right shape.