Dockable Tool Windows

The Binder, Backlinks, Tags, Document Metadata, Editor, Preview, Corkboard, Story Grid, Belief Timeline, Pomodoro, Word Count, Collaborate, and Streak views are all one shared dockable layout — similar to the Properties window in Visual Basic’s IDE — rather than a mix of fixed panels, modals, and mutually-exclusive view modes. You can:

• Drag a tab’s title onto empty space to pop it out into its own floating window
• Drag a floating window’s title back onto the dock area to re-dock it
• Drag one tab onto another to group them together, switching between them like browser tabs
• Drag a tab to an edge of another tab or the dock area to split the layout and place it side by side
• Resize the dock area, or a floating window, by dragging its edge

Binder and Editor are present from the moment a project is open; Backlinks, Tags, Metadata, Preview, Corkboard, Story Grid, Belief Timeline, Pomodoro, Word Count, Collaborate, and Streak start closed. Any tab can be closed via its × button, and reopened again from View > Binder, View > Backlinks, View > Tags, View > Preview, View > Corkboard, View > Story Grid, View > Belief Timeline, View > Metadata, Collaborate > Collaboration Panel, or (for Pomodoro, Word Count, and Streak) Tools > Pomodoro Timer/Tools > Word Count/Tools > Streak (most also have shortcuts — see Keyboard Shortcuts). Toggling Preview, Corkboard, Story Grid, or Belief Timeline just opens or closes that tab next to the Editor rather than switching to an exclusive “view mode” — any combination of tabs can be open and arranged at once.

The whole arrangement — which tabs are open, how they’re split or floated, and window position/size — persists across restarts. Window menu:

• Save Current Layout… — names and saves the current arrangement
• Layouts — lists saved layouts; pick one to switch to it
• Restore Default Layout — resets to the default layout: Binder on the left, Editor in the center (occupying the majority of the space), and Metadata/Backlinks stacked on the right