Browser & widgets

The browser panel embeds a real web view, so you can keep documentation, a live preview or a dashboard pinned next to your work. It opens web pages and local file:// paths, with back, forward and reload in the address bar. A screenshot action in the overflow (…) menu drops a draggable thumbnail you can pull onto the canvas.

• Browser panels share one profile, so a sign-in made in one panel is shared by the others. Cookies and storage persist across restarts, but you cannot be signed in to different accounts on the same site in different panels.
• Playback pauses automatically when a panel scrolls out of view, to save CPU and bandwidth.
• Known media hosts (YouTube, Twitch, SoundCloud and similar) render edge-to-edge with no address bar so the content fills the panel.

The panel starts with an empty cookie jar, so sites you are signed in to elsewhere do not know you here, and some sign-in pages refuse the session outright. The tray icon in the address bar imports the cookies from the browser you already use (Chrome, Edge, Arc, Brave, Firefox and Safari, with a profile picker when a browser has several), and a JSON export works too. Everything is read on your machine and loaded into the panel session; nothing is uploaded. A new browser panel says so with the import one click away, and keeps saying it on the next panel you open until you answer it for real:Not now clears the card in front of you, Don’t show this again ends it for good, and so does importing. If any cookies could not be read, the panel says how many rather than reporting a clean import.

Local dev-server links printed in a terminal can open straight into a browser panel; see the terminal link routing for how that works. A supervised agent can also drive a browser panel to check its own frontend work.

The document panel previews PDFs, Word documents and images (PNG, JPEG, GIF, WebP, SVG and more) right on the canvas. It detects the file type for you, and if something cannot be rendered it offers a Reveal in Finder button (Reveal in File Explorer on Windows) so you can get to the file in your file manager. The file path is remembered with your workspace, so documents reopen where you left them.

• Sticky Note: a freeform colored note with rich text (titles, headings, body, monospaced). Pick from five colors, and right-click to anchor a note to a panel; Deska draws a dashed connector between them.
• AI Scratchpad: a quick notepad for a brain-dump, with a live word count and a short excerpt at the top so a long note stays skimmable at a glance.

• Todo: a compact checklist. Type a task and press Enter, click items to complete them, and watch the done/total counter in the header. Items are markdown checkboxes stored in your notes vault, so they outlive the workspace.
• Pomodoro: a focus timer with the classic 25-minute work and 5-minute break rhythm. The countdown keeps running even if you close the panel or switch workspaces, and shows the mode, cycle and a slim progress bar. The circular ring lives on the ambient dock chip.

A few extras add atmosphere without getting in the way: a small Music player for lofi, a Mood Ring that shifts color with your session, and a Brainrot Player for a vertical-video sidekick. They render chromeless and stay out of your way until you hover them.

The Panel Library has a few more worth knowing about:

• Voice: record a spoken note on the canvas when writing it out would break your flow. It pairs with the catalog described in Voice.
• Note Library: a browser over your note vault, the folder of markdown files that outlives any single panel, so notes survive closing a workspace.
• Action Card: a small panel that walks a sequence of steps one at a time, useful for a checklist that has to happen in order.

Beyond panels, the notebook (Cmd/CtrlJ) slides in from the right for notes you want at hand without giving up canvas space, and the ambient dock in the corner keeps quick notes and the timer a hover away. See Notes & the notebook for the whole picture.