Workspaces

Workspaces are isolated spaces for your notes to help you separate your notes by concern, project, area of work, or similar. For example, you can create a “My Project” workspace to keep your work related notes in, and a “Personal life” workspace to keep your diaries in.

When you launch Darkwrite for the first time, you will choose a name for your first workspace. Every note must belong to a workspace, this is why we initialize a default one for you on first launch.

Create a new workspace

Using the workspace switcher at the bottom right of the window, at the end of the sidebar, you can create a new workspace by choosing “Create new workspace”.

A dialog will ask for a name for the new workspace. You can always change it later in settings.

Switching to a workspace

Choose the workspace from the switcher. It will immediately switch on click.

Edit a workspace

Click the settings icon next to the workspace switcher. In the “Workspace” tab, you’ll see an option to “Edit workspace”. When you click it, a dialog will appear as shown in the image.

You can choose any image as the new icon for your workspace. Cropping your images to a square shape beforehand is recommended to avoid weird looks.

Delete a workspace

First, switch to the workspace you want to delete. Then open settings, and choose “Delete workspace”. You will be prompted to re-enter the workspace’s name to confirm you are doing this consciously.

Danger

Once you delete a workspace, all notes associated with that workspace will be deleted permanently, with no way to recover them. Your notes WILL NOT end up in the recycle bin. They will be gone forever.

If there are some notes you want to keep, make sure to export them as JSON first so you can import them back to a different workspace.

Tip

If “Delete workspace” button in workspace settings is disabled, this means you are trying to delete your final remaining workspace. If you want to delete it, create a new workspace first, then delete the other workspace.