Side view
Open one node in a full-height panel beside the canvas to read, write or keep chatting without losing your place.
Long answers and long sources are hard to read inside a small node. The side view gives one node a full-height panel on the right of the window, while the canvas stays in view next to it. Keep it open to click through your sources one at a time, or to keep a conversation going while you pan the canvas for context to connect.
Open and close the side view
- From a node: hover it and click Open in sidebar in its header. Every node type except groups has this button. (It opens the panel on the right, not the canvas list on the left.)
- From the canvas header: click the panel button at the right end, next to the Canvas settings gear. Click it again to close the panel.
- From a Document node: double-click the page preview.
There is no keyboard shortcut for it.
While the panel is open, it follows your selection: click another node and it switches. Click an empty part of the canvas, or select a group, and it shows "Select a node on the canvas to view its content here".
What each node shows
| Node | In the side view |
|---|---|
| Chat node | The whole conversation, with the node's full composer pinned to the bottom (mode, model, Tools menu, voice input, Submit in new branch). |
| Text node | The note in a full-height editor with the formatting toolbar. |
| Document node | Every page at the panel's width, with a page counter and up and down arrows. Files that aren't PDFs appear once processing has converted them. |
| Image node | The image, with Reveal in folder and Focus on Image canvas (zooms the canvas to the node). |
| Web node | The URL field with Go or Refresh, a screenshot when one was captured, and the Parsed content Slashspace extracted. |
| Post node | The embedded post. Click Ready to read its transcript. |
| Scratch pad | The pad and its toolbar, scaled to fit. You can keep drawing. |
Note: A Text node in the side view and the same node on the canvas don't refresh each other while you type. Edit in one place at a time so one copy doesn't overwrite the other.
Resize the panel
Drag the panel's left edge to resize it, anywhere from 280 to 640 pixels wide (it starts at 384). Slashspace remembers the width. The panel itself starts closed each time you open the app.
Related
- Chat node: the composer and message actions.
- Document node: processing, Open Markdown and Open PDF.
- Branching: forking a thread from the composer.