Workspace Overview

This section brings together the writing workspace and the editor itself, from moving around a project to writing, formatting, saving, focusing, and using keyboard shortcuts.

The editor screen is the main workspace inside an open project. It brings together the current document, the project structure, the context panel, and the small controls needed while writing.

The aim of the editor screen is to keep the text central. The surrounding controls help you move, review, and organise without turning the workspace into a crowded word processor.

The main editor area

The main editor area contains the document you are currently writing or revising. This is where you type, edit, select text, format passages, and move through the content of the open document.

The document title

The document title identifies the piece of writing currently open in the editor. Changing the title helps keep the project structure readable, especially when a project contains many short documents.

Edit a document title directly at the top of the document page. Press Enter or leave the title field to save the change. You can also open the document’s actions menu in the project sidebar and choose Rename when you need to change both the title and the Slug used in its web address. The title shown in the path at the top of the app is only a navigation label.

The project sidebar shows the structure of the open project. Use it to move between documents, add sections or documents, and keep an eye on the larger shape of the project. When Archive or Trash contains something, the sidebar also shows it under Out of the project so you can read or restore what you moved there.

The context panel

The context panel gives the open document its supporting workspace: Notes, Annotations, and Snapshots. It is useful when you want reminders, revision marks, or version history close to the text.

The top header contains the path to your current location and the workspace controls that remain available while writing. Depending on the screen size and current view, these include project search, Zen Mode, Atmosphere, Preferences, update notices, and a save error message.

On small screens, the path includes Home and My projects before the current project or document. On larger screens, it shows the current section and document when a document is open.

After the path, the header may show an available update, project search, Zen Mode, Atmosphere, Preferences, and a save error message. Select Atmosphere to choose a stream, control playback, or adjust the volume. Zen Mode appears on larger screens while a document is open.

A separate row beneath the header contains the project-sidebar button on the left. When a document is open, the context-panel button is on the right. On smaller screens it opens the panel over the page, and on larger screens it shows or hides the panel beside the editor.

Moving between documents

Use the project sidebar or project search to open another document. Spleen saves changes as you work, so moving between documents should feel natural rather than like leaving an unsaved file behind.

How the editor saves your work

Spleen uses autosave. You do not need to press a save button after every change. Autosave is covered in more detail in Writing → The Editor → Autosave.