Workspace Modes

[jsmorabito]

Penpot Design file(to be updated)

Workspace Modes

Workspace Modes allow the user to change the settings and side panels of their workspace without the main panes.

Current State 0.4.0

• to create a mode: save a workspace with the "mode:" prefix will store all workspace settings (see #62)
• loading a "mode:" workspace will not change any of the open documents in the main root pane
• saving a new workspace with a "mode:" name will just save the workspace and not switch to it
• to update the settings for a mode: 1) load the mode 2) make your changes 3) shift click the mode in the workspaces modal to save
• modes are deleted the same way as workspaces

Tasks

• [ ] add mode signifier (optional? as in ability to show or not show signifier)

Resources

• https://www.nngroup.com/articles/modes/
• https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mode_(user_interface)

[jsmorabito]

see #60 for more use case examples

[jsmorabito]

Example: while in my "Fiction Writing" workspace I create a workspace mode called "Focus" that 1) closes all panes except the active one, 2) turns on css snippets that hide different UI elements 3) runs a command that starts a Pomodoro timer

Ideas

• ways to activate a mode
  • via hotkey
  • via button assigned to hotkey
  • via menu (drop down or other)
• set default mode for note in YAML #60