Workflows/Keep context visible

• Keep context visible
  • Source beside draft, note beside plan: this tour builds a working layout step by step — park a page in the right sidebar, collect places in tabs, split the window for true side-by-side, and save the arrangement as a workspace. Each part ends with what you should see. The shortcut map is Features/Tips & shortcuts.
• Park a source in the right sidebar
  • 1. On the page you're writing, Shift-click a link (or a bullet's dot) to open it in the right sidebar. It's a full editor, not a preview — you can write in either place.
  • 2. Two more ways to park things: in Ctrl+K, press Shift+Enter on any page or block result; while editing, Ctrl+Shift+O sends the link at the caret across.
  • 3. Crowded? Fold an item with its arrow and keep just its title in reach, or use the sidebar's ⋯ menu for Collapse all, Expand all, and Close all. Folding or closing never strands half-typed text — Tine commits the active edit first.
  • 4. Press t r to hide the whole sidebar and t r again to bring it back just as it was; its items are restored with your session.
  • What you should see: the source parked beside your page, both editable — and it stays parked while the main page navigates elsewhere.
• Gather places in tabs, and pin the ones you live in
  • 1. Middle-click or Ctrl/Cmd-click a link, a search hit, or a bullet's dot to open it in a background tab — you never leave the page you're on. In Ctrl+K, Ctrl/Cmd+Enter does the same for the highlighted result and leaves the search open, so you can fan several out in a row.
  • 2. Navigating to a page that's already open just focuses its tab instead of making a duplicate (Settings → Editor → Switch to an already-open tab when navigating turns that off).
  • 3. Double-click a tab to pin it. Pinned tabs gather at the left and hold their content: ordinary navigation from one opens a fresh tab instead, and closing a pinned tab asks first — an accidental Ctrl+W can't eat it.
  • 4. Closed one too soon? Ctrl+Shift+T reopens the last closed tab with its history. When titles stop fitting, the ⌄ Show all tabs button at the strip's edge lists them in full — activate, pin, close, or drag to reorder there.
  • What you should see: the same tabs, pins included, come back after a restart — and as session state outside your graph, none of this ever adds a file to it.
• Split the window for true side-by-side
  • 1. Desktop only: Alt+click any [[link]], tag, block reference, or bullet's dot to open it in another pane — with a single pane, Tine splits right for it. In Ctrl+K, Alt+click or Alt+Enter does the same for the highlighted result. The direct bindings: Ctrl+Alt+\ splits right with a copy of the current tab, Ctrl+Alt+Shift+\ splits down.
  • 2. Each pane keeps its own tab strip and its own back/forward history — Alt+Left and Alt+Right step through it, even mid-edit.
  • 3. Drag the seam between panes to resize them. Drag a tab onto another pane's strip to move it there, onto a pane's body to append it, or onto a seam or pane edge to split that spot and drop the tab into the new pane — Esc cancels a drag mid-way.
  • 4. PDF readers use the same tabs and panes. Opening a PDF link makes a companion pane while preserving the source page; you can then drag the PDF tab into any pane or quadrant. Notes opens the PDF's notes page in its structural companion pane, and that notes tab can be moved in exactly the same way.
  • 5. From the keyboard, Ctrl+1 … Ctrl+9 focus panes in reading order, Ctrl+Alt+←↑↓→ moves focus to the nearest pane in that direction, and Ctrl+Alt+Shift+←↑↓→ moves the active tab there instead. Moving the last tab out of a pane closes the emptied pane; a journals feed keeps its last tab.
  • 6. Prefer staged control? Esc climbs from editing to block selection into pane-select mode — a hint pill at the bottom tells you when it's on. Arrows step between panes, seams, and window edges; Enter on a seam makes a mirror split; typing opens the new pane with the search box pre-filled. Another Esc backs out.
  • What you should see: two note panes that scroll, navigate, and keep tabs independently — source and draft side by side, never fighting over one cursor.
• Save the arrangement as a workspace
  • 1. With the layout where you want it — splits, every pane's tabs and histories, both sidebars — click the workspace name at the top of the left sidebar and choose + New workspace; name it once.
  • 2. Come back to it from the same switcher: hover the name for a quick-switch list, or click it for the full menu with Rename and Delete. Each graph keeps its own set, and the active one comes back after a restart.
  • What you should see: the saved pane layout, tabs and histories, sidebars, and Recent return together. Workspaces are device-local session state — saving, switching, or deleting one never writes to your graph.
• Clear everything else away
  • t f (focus mode) hides the sidebars and toolbar so the screen is just text — on desktop it also takes the window full screen. Hover the top edge to reach the toolbar again; layered Esc steps back out.
  • t b fades every block except the one you're editing. Settings → Appearance → Dim in focus mode can dim for you while focus mode is on — without rewriting your manual t b choice.
  • On a phone the layout stays one page: the sidebars open as overlays (dismiss with the shaded edge, Esc, or Android Back), and tabs and splits are desktop-only. A PDF and its Notes page use that same history, so Back returns to the previous surface.
• Where next
  • Features/Tips & shortcuts has the compact shortcut map, Start/Where things are is the plain map of the places used here, and Workflows/Find and revisit covers getting back to anything you parked.