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Sidetrack
A second sheet on the right that keeps a tab in view beside the one you work in.
Where Titlebar › Open Sidetrack
Keys ⌘D
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How it works
- Press ⌘D, or the Sidetrack button at the titlebar's right end, to open it. It pushes the stage aside rather than covering it.
- Right-click a tab and choose Open in Sidetrack, or press + in Sidetrack's head and pick one. Each tab you add is a chip in the head; press a chip to show it.
- The same list holds its Widgets: the Scratchpad; Changes, the folder's uncommitted changes as a tree of files that open to their diffs; Tasks, the open loop's plan, subagents and background commands; and Files.
- Press ⌘⌥← or ⌘⌥→ to move the keyboard between the stage and Sidetrack, or click the side you want to type into.
Good to know
- Drag a chip to reorder them; Esc while dragging puts them back. Drag Sidetrack's edge to make it wider or narrower.
- A tab is drawn in one place at a time. While the tab Sidetrack shows is also the one on the stage, the stage has it, and Sidetrack gets it back when you switch tabs.
- What it holds is saved with each workspace; whether it is open follows you from one workspace to the next.
- The plan's tab on a loop's message box opens Tasks. What it lists is kept with each loop and comes back after a restart.