Projects and Trash

A project gives a collection of canvas notes its own working space. Use separate projects when you want separate maps: for example, a reading project and a home renovation project. Other panels, including Tasks and your journal, can show material beyond the currently selected project.

Create and switch projects#

Click the folder and project name in the list header. The menu lists your projects and marks the active one with a checkmark. Choose another project to switch the canvas, or choose New Project.

In the New Project dialog, enter Project name and choose Create. Leading and trailing spaces are trimmed. A name containing only spaces does not create a project. Choose Cancel to leave your existing project selected.

If the list is hidden, use Show List (⌃L) or Control-L. Select the Glob note tab to find its project header; the Ideas and Tasks tabs use different collections.

Rename or delete a project#

Use the ellipsis beside the active project's name for project actions. Rename opens Rename Project; enter a non-empty name and choose Rename.

Delete opens Delete Project? with the explanation “All notes in this project will be moved to Trash.” Confirm only when you intend to remove that project from your working list. Cancel leaves it in place.

Project deletion and note restoration are different operations. Restoring a note from Trash is not a command to reconstruct an entire deleted project, its canvas arrangement and every relationship. Export a project before reorganising or removing it if you need a separate copy of that map.

What is project-specific?#

The canvas and its ordinary note list follow the active project. A project export also starts from the active project, so switch to the intended project before exporting.

The Tasks panel can collect tasks from several projects. Ideas, imported documents, DataJars and journal tools have their own collections. Switching projects does not mean those collections have been deleted, moved into the new project, or transferred to another device.

When copying an imported chunk or a knowledge record onto the canvas, check the active project first. The destination can be the project you currently have open. Knowledge Browser creates a fresh note copy when you import a record; repeatedly selecting the same record can therefore create duplicates.

Restore a note#

Choose Trash from the project menu. The Mac Trash panel lists deleted notes and their deletion times. Restore brings a note back into the working collection.

Use Restore before permanent deletion if you are unsure which item you removed. The regular canvas Delete action and the Delete key move notes here rather than immediately using the panel's permanent-delete operation.

The Trash view can contain notes from outside the active project. Read the note's title before acting rather than assuming every row came from the canvas you were just viewing.

Permanent deletion#

The Delete button on a row inside Trash permanently removes that note from the app's note collection. Empty Trash opens a confirmation and applies permanent removal across the Trash contents. Trash is empty appears when there are no rows to show.

These controls are for notes. They are not a universal cleanup tool for imported documents, saved chat conversations or DataJar definitions. Those features have their own actions and consequences:

• Import Studio document actions distinguish pulled document data from created items.
• DataJars distinguish hiding a jar from its source entries.
• Ask Glob distinguishes clearing a conversation from items you saved out of an answer.

For account deletion, use account help or contact [email protected]. The Privacy Policy describes data handling.

Share controls in the beta#

Some project menus contain Share, Manage Sharing or Stop Sharing. Their presence is not evidence that this beta can exchange projects with the current web app. This guide does not offer a shared-project setup procedure for the Mac download. Read sync on Mac for the transfer limitations, and use Glob for Web for that client's current collaboration instructions.