Navigating the workspace
Three columns, and once you’ve seen them this way you always know where you are. Left is what exists, the middle is where you work, right is what you’re looking at.
The whole room
The workspace is three panes and nothing else opens. The sidebar on the left is what exists, the chat in the middle is where you work, and the detail panel on the right is what you’re looking at.
The workspace, to scale
Mitchell Residence
Sidebar
What exists
220px
Chat
Where you work
60%
Detail panel
What you’re looking at
40%
The sidebar, what exists
A single scrolling column, not a set of tabs. Themes, the Household of your clients, the Briefs you’ve drafted, and your past Sessions. A theme carries an AI tag while it’s only suggested, and a marker when a gap has opened inside it.
No sessions yet
What a row can carry
The chat, where you work
Nearly everything happens here. You ask about your clients, propose moves and themes, and draft or reshape briefs by typing in plain language. Everything the rest of this guide describes is typed into this one column.
The detail panel, what you’re looking at
Click a theme and the right pane fills with its detail while the chat stays beside it. Close it with Escape and the chat widens again. Opening it is only looking: it doesn’t change what the assistant is working on.
A theme
The Quiet Core
4 directions · 11 evidence · 2 constraints
Moves
4Relocate the evening woodworking to the detached garage.
Evidence
11Constraints
2One level in, the same pane
Relocate the evening woodworking to the detached garage: a boundary on the saw rather than on him.
Evidence
He is out in the garage weekday evenings, 7:30 to 10.
The detached garage shares no wall with the house.
Why looking and working are kept apart
All 12 partsIn most tools, selecting a thing is how you tell the software what you mean. That works when it has no idea what you’re talking about. Here it does, so the detail panel is just a window, and the conversation carries the work.