1.8 Work across folders

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One workspace, ordinary files.

After 1.0. Version numbers mark the intended order, not dates or paid upgrades; scope is provisional and may change with evidence and demand. Checked against the development repository on 15 October 2026.

In short

One workspace, ordinary files. Name a workspace that holds several folders at once, with Quick Open and search across all of them.

Recent workspaces remember their state and cope when a folder has moved or a drive isn’t connected.

In practice

Keep a project’s documentation and your own notes in one workspace and search both, without moving a file.

Why it isn’t simple

  • Folders come and go. External drives unplug, synced folders arrive late and folders get renamed. A workspace has to remember them and cope gracefully when one is missing, without keeping a database of its own.
  • Access has to be remembered safely. Permission to read each folder has to survive relaunches, and searching several folders at once has to stay fast and stoppable.

What it won’t do

  • No vault, database or proprietary storage: your folders stay ordinary folders.

What it covers

1.8Work across folders

Exploring

  • Named multi-root workspaces
  • Quick Open and search across roots
  • Workspace recent state and moved/unavailable roots
  • No required vault or proprietary storage

Depends on See it differently.

Product direction, October 2026Plan reference 1.8

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What the labels mean

Exploring
to be re-checked once earlier versions prove the approach.