Projects, slates, and lenses
Open a project
Section titled “Open a project”Expand a machine in the sidebar to work with its projects. Use the add menu beside Projects, then Open in Dash… to open a folder. The Projects context menu also offers Clone Repo when the machine’s project folder is available.
Files belong to the machine where the folder lives. Opening a remote file lets you work on that machine’s copy; it does not make a local checkout on the computer you are viewing from. Use Git or your own backup tools when you need independent copies.
Select a file to open it. File and folder context menus offer actions such as opening another tab, renaming, copying a path, and creating content. For a shell in a folder, choose New Terminal from that folder’s context menu.
Arrange your views
Section titled “Arrange your views”Dash uses tabs and panes to hold file editors and slates. Slates include terminals, browser views, notes, and agents. Arrange the views you need together so you can keep a file, its terminal, and a conversation in view.
The machine matters for each view. A terminal opened from a remote folder runs there. A model downloaded on one machine is available on that machine. A browser slate belongs to its Desktop host and cannot currently be viewed remotely.
Save a lens
Section titled “Save a lens”A lens is a saved arrangement of views. Open Lenses in the top bar and choose Save as new lens…. Give it a name that describes the task, such as “Website” or “Release checks.”
The Lenses menu lets you reopen, rename, delete, or open a saved lens in another window. Use its save action to overwrite an existing lens with your current layout.
Local and cloud lenses have different availability. A local lens stays with the local workspace; a cloud lens is saved to the signed-in account. Live tabs and pane sizes are stored locally, while an explicitly saved cloud lens can be opened from another client.
A saved lens preserves an arrangement, not copies of project files or running processes. Reopening a lens that uses a remote computer still requires that computer to be available. See Account, sync, and privacy for the account data boundary.