Press Option+/ in any app, ask your question, and the answer lands on your canvas. That's the headline of Slashspace 4.0, and it's one of three new features.
Quick Window lets you ask or jot from anywhere on your Mac. Stacks fold a crowded canvas into tidy decks that keep it fast. Replays let you share how a canvas came together. Below is what each one does, and the reason it exists.
Press Option+/ anywhere on your Mac. A small window opens on top of whatever you are doing. Type your question and press Ask, or press Save as note to keep a thought for later.
The answer doesn't vanish when you close the window. Every question becomes a chat node and every note becomes a text node, placed in the canvas you had open last, or in any canvas you pick from the top of the window. Press Open in canvas (Cmd+O) to jump there and keep going.
Why we built it. Opening a canvas every time you have a quick question is friction. You're in your browser, your editor or your inbox, and you just want an answer or a place to paste something. Before, that meant switching apps, finding the right canvas and starting a chat. Now it is one shortcut. And because everything you send lands on a canvas, those quick questions and pasted notes don't end up lost in a chat history. They are sitting right next to the work they belong to when you come back.
We want Slashspace to be a tool you use every day, not only when you sit down for deep work. Quick Window brings it one step closer.
You can change the shortcut in Settings > Configurations > Keyboard Shortcuts. Quick Window is Mac only for now.
Select two or more nodes and choose Stack from the new selection bar. They fold into a single deck, like a pile of cards on a desk. The deck shows its three most recently edited members on top, so you can still see what's inside at a glance.
Click the deck and its members spread out into a grid, ready to read and edit. Drag one out of the grid to take it off the stack. Connections to anything inside point at the stack, and a stack passes all of its members to a chat as context, just like a group.
Why we built it. Canvases grow. A research thread turns into dozens of nodes, and soon the canvas is hard to read and hard to move around. Stacks let you put finished or related pieces away without deleting or hiding them, which frees up the visual space so the canvas shows only what you're working on right now.
There's a second reason. A stacked node isn't drawn on the canvas at all; the deck only shows light preview cards. So the more you stack, the less the canvas has to render. Large canvases stay smooth, so you can take on bigger projects without the canvas slowing down.
Click Share on any canvas to publish it as a Replay. You get a link on slashspace.ai, and anyone who opens it watches your canvas build itself: each question, answer, branch and note appearing in the order you made them.
You decide what goes out. Pick the dates and nodes to show, hide branches and dead ends, fold long messages, and choose whether your name appears. Slashspace warns you before anything that looks private is published. You can republish or unpublish at any time, and anyone with Slashspace can press Remix in Slashspace to open the replay as a canvas of their own.
Why we built it. A finished canvas shows where you ended up. It doesn't show how you got there, and that's often the most useful part: which questions led where, which branches you tried, how the idea took shape. We wanted to find out whether sharing that journey is valuable, whether it's walking your team through a decision, showing your audience how you research, or just sending a friend something you figured out.
Replays are experimental and in beta. We'd love to hear what you use them for and what's missing. Stacks aren't shown in replays yet.
[ ] to add a to-do you can tick off.See the full 4.0.0 changelog for everything.
If you have Slashspace installed, it will update itself. Restart the app when it asks, and you're on 4.0. New here? Download Slashspace for Mac, Windows or Linux. Plans are $89 a year or $249 once for every future version, both refundable within 7 days.
Tell us what you think in our Discord or at support@slashspace.ai. We read everything, and we especially want to hear how you use Replays.