Drafts, Spaces and Canvases

Your work is organised as Workspace → Space → Canvas. A Workspace holds Spaces, and a Space holds its images and videos (its library) and the Canvases you arrange them on. You also have Drafts: your own Canvases, outside any Space and any Workspace.

The sidebar, on the left, shows one Workspace at a time:

At the very top, Otherspace, which is in the same place on an open Canvas. It takes you back to where you were last in the Workspace you’re working in.
Below it, the Workspace and your role in it. Select it to switch to another Workspace (see Switching).
Home: the Workspace’s Spaces at a glance, the ones you can open, with New Space. Below them, Shared with you lists Canvases shared with you on their own, outside any Space you can open (see Sharing a Canvas).
Drafts: your own Canvases, outside any Space. They belong to you, not to a Workspace, so the same Drafts are in the sidebar in every Workspace.
Members, in a Studio Workspace: its people and pending invitations, in Settings (see Workspaces).
Teams, in a Studio Workspace: its Teams and who is in each, in Settings (see Teams).
Trash: everything you can restore for 30 days, from all your Workspaces: your deleted Drafts, deleted Canvases and Spaces you manage, and images and videos moved to Trash from libraries you can edit (see Trash).
Spaces: the Spaces in the Workspace that you can open. Choose + to make a New Space: name it, and it opens straight away, listed in the sidebar. You manage a Space you make.
At the bottom, your account (see Your account and settings).

The main area shows the place you’ve chosen: Home, Drafts or one Space. A Space opens on Work, its Canvases, the most recently changed first; Assets is its library, and its Composer is there in both. Each card shows the Canvas’s title and how long ago it last changed.

Drag the sidebar’s right edge to make it wider or narrower. Drag it narrow, or click its edge, and it shows icons only: hover over one to see its name, and click the edge again to bring the sidebar back. Otherspace remembers the sidebar’s width, and whether it shows icons only, in this browser.

On a phone, the sidebar is tucked away: open it with the button at the top left. Choosing a place closes it again.

Drafts

A Draft is a Canvas of your own, outside any Space: only you can open it, unless you share it. Images you add to a Draft, and those the Assistant makes there, belong to the Draft too. Drafts stay separate from your Spaces, in every Workspace.

Images and videos the Assistant makes in a Draft use the usage of the Workspace you’re working in (see Usage and prices). If you’re a Guest in that Workspace, making them in Drafts isn’t available.

Spaces

A new Workspace has no Spaces: make the first with New Space on its Home or in the sidebar. A Workspace on Free has up to 3 active Spaces; Pro and Studio have as many as you like (see Plans).

A Space’s header has its actions:

Share (in a Studio Workspace): who can open the Space, and how far (see Space access).
⋯ → Rename, if you manage the Space.

In a Space you can only view, Canvases open read-only, and the Space and each Canvas are marked View only.

Canvases

Create a Canvas with New Canvas in Drafts, or in a Space you can edit. It is called “Untitled” (shown in a quieter colour until you name it) and opens straight away.
Open a Canvas by clicking its card. A Canvas fills the window, without the sidebar, with the Otherspace mark still at the top left: it takes you home. Beside it is the Canvas’s breadcrumb (see Pages): its folder returns you to its Space or to Drafts, to the same place you left. Cards are ordinary links, so you can also open a Canvas in a new tab or copy its address. The browser tab shows the Canvas title.
Changes save as you go. If you close or reload the tab while a change is still saving, your browser asks you to confirm first; going elsewhere in Otherspace never loses one.
Your card’s actions are in its menu (⋯), and also open where you right-click the card: Rename, Move to… and Delete, whichever you can do.
Rename a Canvas from its card’s menu (⋯ → Rename, or right-click it), or by clicking its name in the breadcrumb while it is open. Press Enter or click away to save, or Escape to cancel. Titles can be up to 120 characters. Renaming counts as a change, so the Canvas moves to the front.
Move a Canvas to another Space of its Workspace, or out of your Drafts into one, from its card’s menu (⋯ → Move to…, or right-click it). You need to manage the Canvas and be able to edit the Space it goes to. Choose the Space: before you move it, the dialog names anyone who would lose access to it, and reminds you that the people of the new Space will be able to open it. It keeps its address, its public links and the people it was shared with, and its pictures and videos go with it; any that another Canvas also uses stay put for that Canvas, so nothing else changes. Usage stays where it was spent. A Canvas still being generated for or uploaded to waits until that work finishes, and a Canvas in Trash must be restored first. Anyone who has it open stays on it if they can still open it; anyone who has lost access is let go. You can also drag a Canvas’s card onto a Space in the sidebar to move it there: the Spaces it can go to show as you drag, the one it’s in doesn’t take it, and if anyone would lose access, Move to… opens on that Space first so you see who. Move to… stays the way to do it from the keyboard.
Covers. A Canvas’s card shows its cover: the most recently added image on it. Pick another with Set as Canvas cover on a selected image or video (right-click it, or ⋯ in the selection toolbar); a video shows its poster. Choose Use automatic cover on the chosen one to go back to the latest image. If you delete the chosen one, the card goes back to the latest image. While a chosen video’s poster is still being made, the card shows the latest image. A Canvas with no images shows a plain card. Choosing a cover needs edit access, doesn’t change when the Canvas was last edited, and isn’t undone with Cmd+Z. Cards in Trash are plain.
Delete a Canvas from its card’s menu (⋯ → Delete): your own Drafts, and Canvases you manage. It moves to Trash, and for a few seconds you can Undo. Deleting it ends its use at once: anyone who has it open is let go, its public links stop working, and anything still being generated for it is cancelled where the model allows it (you aren’t charged for cancelled work).

An empty Canvas

A Page with nothing on it asks What will you make?, in the middle of the paper between the top bar and the Composer, with three ways to begin:

Create an image puts the Composer in Image and puts you in its prompt. The question fades away, and a small blank image waits in the middle of the view, pulsing, with Type in the composer to create: what you make lands there.
Create a video does the same in Video, with a wide blank video.
Add a reference opens your computer’s file picker: the images and videos you choose are added to the Canvas, as with + → Upload from computer….

Below them: Or just ask the Assistant anything. The Composer stays where it always is and starts in Ask, as on any Canvas; nothing changes mode unless you choose one of the three, and nothing is made until you send a prompt. Everything else works as usual around it.

Click on the Canvas instead of typing, and the blank image or video goes and the question comes back.

It goes as soon as anything is on the Page, including an image still uploading or being made, and comes back whenever the Page is empty again, for example once you delete everything on it. Someone who can only view the Canvas doesn’t see it.

Pages

A Canvas holds one or more Pages, each with its own content and its own view. A new Canvas starts with Page 1. Pages belong to their Canvas: whoever can open the Canvas can open all of its Pages, and its sharing, conversations and cover are the Canvas’s.

At the top of an open Canvas, the breadcrumb shows where you are: Space / Canvas / Page.

The folder takes you back to the Canvas’s Space, or to Drafts.
The Canvas’s name: click it to rename the Canvas. Its menu (the arrow beside it) lists the other Canvases in the same Space or Drafts, to open one, and New Canvas.
The Page’s name: click it to rename the Page. Its menu lists the Canvas’s Pages: choose one to open it.
- Add Page adds one at the end and opens it.
- Rename a Page from its row, or double-click it.
- Drag a Page by its handle to put it somewhere else in the order.
- Delete a Page from its row. You’re asked to confirm, and everything on it is deleted for everyone. Pages don’t go to Trash, but you can bring one back with Undo, or with Restore under “Deleted in this tab” in the Page menu, until you close the tab. The last Page can’t be deleted.

Move to Page: right-click what you’ve selected and choose a Page under Move to Page. It leaves this Page and lands on that one in the same place, on top of what’s there. A group takes everything in it, and something moved out of a group leaves the group. Open in the message takes you to it. Everyone on either Page sees it at once.

Each Page remembers where you left it, and opening a Canvas takes you back to the Page you had open last. Every Page has its own address (/canvases/…/pages/…), and the browser’s Back and Forward move between the Pages you opened. Undo works on each Page separately, for as long as the Canvas is open.

When others are on the same Canvas, you see the cursors and selections of the people on your Page. Following someone takes you to their Page. The Assistant works with the Page you’re on, and a public link opens the first Page, with a menu to move between them.

On a phone, the breadcrumb shows the Page, and the folder’s menu holds the Space and the Canvas.

Trash

Deleted Canvases, Spaces, images and videos wait in Trash for 30 days, then they’re removed for good. You have one Trash: Trash in the sidebar lists everything you can restore, from all your Workspaces, whichever Workspace you’re in. The most recently deleted is first, each with where it goes back to (its Workspace and Space, or Drafts), who deleted it, when, and how many days are left.

Canvases: your own deleted Drafts, and deleted Canvases in Spaces you manage. Choose Restore to put one back where it was, in its Space or your Drafts. A deleted Canvas doesn’t open, and its public links don’t work, until it’s restored.
Images and videos: what you or others moved to Trash from a library you can edit, each with a small picture. Restore puts it back in its library (see the library’s Trash).
Spaces: deleted Spaces you manage (see below).

Deleting or restoring never moves a Canvas: it goes back to the place it was deleted from.

Deleting a Space

Someone who manages a Space can delete it from its menu (⋯ → Delete Space…). The warning counts what goes with it (“12 Canvases and 148 assets will move to Trash with this Space”), says that everyone loses access immediately, and that you can restore it for 30 days. Type the Space’s name to confirm.

The Space and everything in it close at once, for everyone: its Canvases, their pictures and videos, and its public links. Anyone with one of its Canvases open is let go.
Anything it was still generating is cancelled where the model allows it, and you aren’t charged for cancelled work. Anything that can’t be cancelled finishes as usual.
It appears under Spaces in Trash, with who deleted it, when, and how many days are left. Restore asks first, and brings it all back as it was: its Canvases, Assets and everyone’s access, and its public links (the same links, which work again; the confirmation says how many).
A Canvas you deleted from it earlier goes with it, and keeps its own 30 days. While the Space is deleted, that Canvas isn’t listed under Canvases in Trash and can’t be restored on its own: restore the Space. It comes back still in Trash, and the Space’s other Canvases come back as they were. When a Space is removed for good, everything in it goes, whatever time its Canvases had left.
Someone removed from the Workspace in the meantime doesn’t get access back.
After 30 days, a deleted Space can no longer be restored.

Removed for good

After its 30 days, whatever is in Trash is removed for good, within about an hour:

A Canvas goes with what’s on it, its public links and who it was shared with. Its pictures and videos stay: they belong to its Space (or your Drafts), not to the Canvas, so they’re never removed with one.
A Space goes with everything in it: its Canvases, whatever time they had left, and its pictures, videos and uploads, including the stored files.
Your usage and charges stay. What you were charged, and for which model, is never removed. Only the link back to what was made goes.

Addresses

Every place has its own address, so you can bookmark it, open it in a new tab or send it to someone who can open it:

/home/…: a Workspace’s Home.
/drafts: your Drafts.
/spaces/…: a Space.
/trash: your Trash, from all your Workspaces.
/canvases/…: a Canvas, which opens on the Page you had open last; /canvases/…/pages/… is one of its Pages.

Opening Otherspace itself takes you back to where you were last in the Workspace you’re working in: its Home, a Space, or your Drafts. The first time, that’s its Home. If you open an address while signed out, you go there once you’ve signed in, if it’s somewhere you can open; otherwise you land in your own Workspace. Signing out never leaves an address behind, so whoever signs in next starts in their own Workspace. Opening a Space by its address shows that Space in its own Workspace, but doesn’t switch Workspace: only choosing one in the sidebar does.

Not available yet: moving a Canvas into Drafts or to another Workspace, emptying Trash or deleting something for good straight away, rotating, lines and arrows, rich text, and opening a deleted Canvas without restoring it.