Gardens & Workspaces
Organize your thinking into separate workspaces that you can nest, share, and customize.
What are gardens?
Gardens are workspaces — each one is a separate canvas that holds a collection of thoughts and connections. You might create one garden for a project, another for personal notes, and another for research. Your default garden is created automatically when you sign up.
Creating and switching gardens
Click the gardens icon in the sidebar to open the garden panel. Here you can see all your gardens, create new ones, and switch between them. Each garden has its own canvas, thoughts, and layout settings.
- 1Click the gardens icon in the left sidebar.
- 2Click '+ New Garden' to create a workspace.
- 3Give it a name and press Enter.
- 4Click any garden in the list to switch to it.
Sub-gardens
Every thought can become its own garden. When you drill into a thought on the canvas, a sub-garden is automatically created for it — a focused workspace where you can add child thoughts, make connections, and organize ideas. Sub-gardens nest infinitely, so you can build deep hierarchies. Wikilinks, backlinks, and search all work across sub-gardens, keeping your knowledge graph connected even when you drill down.
Breadcrumb navigation
When inside a sub-garden, a breadcrumb bar appears at the top showing your current path (e.g. Home > Research > Machine Learning). Click any breadcrumb to jump directly to that level. On smaller screens, intermediate items collapse behind a '...' menu that you can expand to see all levels.
Per-garden settings
Each garden and sub-garden remembers its own arrange mode, sorting, grouping, and type filter settings. When you switch between gardens or drill into sub-gardens, your layout preferences are automatically restored. This means your research garden can use a different layout than your project garden.
Trash and restoration
Deleted thoughts go to the trash, where they can be restored. The trash panel shows which garden each thought belongs to, so you know where it will return. Restoring a thought puts it back in its original garden with its position preserved.
Sharing gardens
You can share gardens with other users by inviting them as viewers or editors. Use the share button in the top bar to manage access. Viewers can browse but not edit. Editors can create, modify, and connect thoughts. Note that sharing a garden does not automatically share its sub-gardens — each is shared independently.