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Workspace

The workspace drawer — opened with Cmd/Ctrl+O, or by clicking Workspace in the left tool palette — is where you organize your works and get to them.

The tree​

The workspace tree: an author node at the top, a work directly under it, and a project holding another work

At the top of the tree is your author node, named after you. Under it you create:

  • Projects — folders. Use them to group works by album, era, client, or any way that fits how you think. A project can hold works and other projects, nested as deep as you need.
  • Works — the lyric documents you write in the editor. A work is always a leaf; it can't hold anything else.

Creating a project or a work​

  1. Right-click a node that can hold children — your author node, or any project.
  2. Choose New Project or New Work.
A new, unnamed work row open for editing directly in the workspace tree

A new row opens right in the tree, ready to name.

  1. Type a name.
  2. Press Enter to confirm, or Escape to cancel.

There's no dialog and no language picker at this step — a new work is created in English by default. To change its language, tags, or name afterward, see work details below.

Renaming​

Right-click a node and choose Rename. The row opens for editing the same way it does when you create one — type the new name and press Enter, or Escape to cancel. If the rename fails (for example, a network error), the old name is restored.

Deleting​

Right-click a node and choose Delete, then confirm in the dialog that appears — deleting cannot be undone.

The confirm delete dialog, naming the work and warning that this cannot be undone

A few rules, visible directly in the menu — Delete is greyed out when it doesn't apply:

  • A work can always be deleted.
  • A project must be empty first — its Delete is disabled while it still holds anything.
  • Your author node — the root of your tree — can't be deleted at all.

Opening a work​

Double-click a work in the tree. Its content loads into the editor.

Node menus​

What you see on right-click depends on the node:

The author node's context menu: Rename, New Project, New Work, and a disabled Delete A work's context menu: Open, Rename, History, Duplicate, and Delete
  • Your author node: Rename, New Project, New Work, Delete (always disabled).
  • A project: New Work, New Project, Rename, Delete (disabled while it has children).
  • A work: Open, Rename, History, Duplicate, Delete. History opens the version-comparison drawer for that work — see History & Versions. Duplicate makes an independent copy — see Duplicating below.

Duplicating​

Right-click a work and choose Duplicate. A new work appears in the tree named "‹name› (copy)", holding its own copy of the original's content at the moment you duplicated it. From then on the two are unrelated: editing and saving one leaves the other exactly as it was. Duplicate isn't offered on projects or on your author node — only on works.

Work details​

Click once on a work (rather than double-clicking) to select it without opening it. A Work details card appears below the tree:

The Work details card showing Name, Language, Emotions, Tags, and Modified date
  • Name, Language, Tags — set when the work was created, editable afterward.
  • Emotions — shown as chips; they come from analyzing the work's content and are recalculated on save, not typed in directly.
  • Modified — the date of the work's last save.

Selecting a project or your author node instead shows just its type and name — there's no editable card for those.

Loading a work's details can take a moment, especially if it isn't the one currently open in the editor. If it fails to load, a notification says so; click away and reselect the work to try again.

Editing details​

Click the edit icon in the corner of the card to turn it into a form:

The Work details card in edit mode, with editable Name, Language, and Tags fields, and Save and Cancel buttons

Change the Name, Language (English, French, or Spanish), or Tags, then Save or Cancel. Emotions aren't part of this form — they update on their own as you write and save the work's content.

Finding a work​

Once your library grows past what fits on screen, use Find work to search across everything you own.