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Workspaces & Panes

Workspaces

Group your terminals by project. Each workspace has its own pane layout, tabs, and context. Switch between “ACME Project” and “Production Server” without losing your place in either.

Workspaces and tabs

Features

  • Named workspaces — organize by project, client, or however you work
  • Independent layouts — each workspace has its own split pane tree
  • Drag and drop — reorder workspaces in the sidebar
  • Sort options — default (manual), alphabetical, or recent activity
  • Tab count — optional display of tab count after workspace names
  • Recent workspaces — collapsible section, toggleable in preferences
  • Workspace notes — markdown notes scoped to the whole workspace
  • Suspend & resume — suspend inactive workspaces to free resources (PTYs are killed, memory released). Resuming brings back exactly the tabs that had a live terminal when you suspended — maiTerm respawns and auto-resumes just those (with a progress modal for larger resumes), so a 20-tab workspace that had 3 agents running comes back with those 3 live, without waking tabs you never started. Auto-suspend after configurable timeout (15/30/60 min). A suspended workspace can also be woken from your phone with Resume workspace in maiLink
  • Full-session restore on relaunch — on launch, maiTerm respawns and auto-resumes every tab that was live at last shutdown, across every workspace — one at a time, with a cancellable progress modal — so an agent in another workspace is already picking up where it left off when you switch to it. A window reload reattaches to terminals that are still running instead of respawning them
  • Multi-window — open additional windows with independent workspace layouts; window positions remembered per monitor configuration

Panes

Panes are the containers within a workspace. Each pane holds one or more tabs (terminal, editor, or diff).

Split Panes

  • Horizontal and vertical splits — create any layout you need
  • Drag to resize — adjust split ratios by dragging the divider
  • Recursive splits — splits within splits for complex layouts
  • Terminal persistence — terminals survive split tree changes via the portal pattern

Per-Tab Notes

Each tab has its own markdown notes panel. Track TODOs, paste connection strings, jot down what you’re debugging — right next to the terminal doing the work.

Notes panel

Your coding agent — Claude Code or Codex — shares the same panel. Ask it to write down what it just did, keep a running TODO list, or summarize a debugging session, and it edits the notes directly through MCP tools — no copy-paste. It can read, write, update, organize, merge, and clean up both tab and workspace notes, so your notes stay current while you work.

  • Markdown or plain text — your choice per tab
  • Agent-maintained — ask your agent to write, update, and tidy your notes via MCP tools
  • Interactive checkboxes — rendered in preview mode
  • Editable tables — click any table cell in preview mode to edit it in place; Tab moves between cells
  • Edit and preview modes — state persisted per tab
  • Configurable — font size, font family, panel width