Opening the Workspace Panel
The Workspace lives in a panel on the right-hand edge of the window. Open it with the Workspace button in the title bar, and close it with the chevron in the panel's own header.
It makes room rather than covering the page
The panel pushes the page aside instead of floating over it. That is deliberate: the whole point of the Workspace is to compare where you are with where you have been, and a panel that hides the grid you are reading would defeat it. While the panel is closed it occupies no width at all, so nothing is lost by leaving it shut until you need it.
Drag the panel's left edge to resize it. The width you choose is remembered on that computer, so the panel comes back the size you left it — including in a new session.
Sharing the edge with Ace
The right-hand edge holds one surface at a time. Opening the Workspace closes the attached AI chat drawer, and opening the chat drawer closes the Workspace, because two panels competing for the same space would leave neither usable.
Detaching the assistant into its own window removes that competition entirely — a detached chat does not use the main window's layout, so it can stay open alongside the Workspace. If you regularly want both at once, detaching is the arrangement to use. See Sessions and History.
What you see when it opens
The panel has two sections, each collapsible:
| Section | Contents |
|---|---|
| My investigation | Your own drill tree, with a count of the nodes in it |
| Shared workspace | Items other people have shared with you, with a count |
Before you have drilled into anything, My investigation explains itself rather than sitting empty:
Drill into any grid or aggregate and it shows up here. Star what you want to keep; Clear drops the rest and starts a fresh investigation.
The header carries a Tree options menu — collapse or expand everything, or show only your favorites — and a Clear control that drops the exploratory steps while favorites and shared views stay. Those are covered in The Workspace Tree.
In pop-out windows
A view you have detached into its own window still contributes to the same workspace: the tree is per-session, not per-window. Capturing a snapshot from a pop-out works the same way it does in the main window, so an investigation spread across two monitors still assembles into one thread.