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Scratchpad
A page of notes for each workspace, kept in Sidetrack beside your work.
Where Sidetrack › + › Scratchpad
Agents use it
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How it works
- Open Sidetrack, press + and pick Scratchpad under Widgets.
- Type. Markdown is drawn as you write it: a heading, a checkbox to tick or a block of code.
- What you type is saved with the workspace as you go, so each workspace has its own pad.
- Ask an agent to note something down or read your notes, and it uses the pad through the MCP server.
Good to know
- An agent can add to the pad or change part of it, but never replace or empty all of it.
- Anything you typed is saved before an agent's edit is applied, and the pad on screen shows the change at once.
- Every agent edit is a Scratchpad edited row in the Agent trail, with a button that opens the pad.
- The scratchpad is your own notes, so it is left out when workspaces are exported.