Spaces

What spaces are

A space is a folder in your second brain: “Work”, “Travel”, “Health”, “Side project”. Every fact and source lives in one, and the Spaces page shows them as a grid you can browse.

You rarely need to create spaces by hand. Mindola files captures into the right space automatically and makes new ones as your life needs them.

Why spaces matter for sharing

Spaces are not just tidiness. They are how you control what a lens can see. When you build a lens, you pick which spaces it reads from, and everything else in your knowledge stays private. That makes spaces the dividing line between your brain and the slice you hand to someone else. See Building a lens for how scoping is set up.

What you can do

• Open a space to see everything inside it.
• Create a space when you want a clean container for something new.
• Rename, pin, or archive spaces from the card menu.
• Move items between spaces from Knowledge to change what your lenses reach.
• Delete a space and everything filed inside it, from the space picker on Knowledge.

Pinning

Pin a space to keep it at the top of the Spaces grid and within easy reach. Pin the handful you touch every day; the rest stay one scroll away.

Subspaces

A space can sit inside another, up to a few levels deep. A lens scoped to a parent space also sees its subspaces, which is useful when you want a whole branch of your brain shared at once.

Moving items

From Knowledge, move any fact or source into a different space. This is the main way to fix what a lens can see: pull something into a shared space to expose it, or out of one to keep it private.

Archiving

When a space is finished, like a wrapped-up project or an old trip, archive it. Archived spaces drop out of your everyday view but stay searchable, and nothing inside is lost.

Deleting a space

Archiving hides a space. Deleting removes it for good, along with everything filed inside it.

Open Knowledge, then open the space picker at the top of the list. Hover any space in that list and click the bin icon.

Before anything is removed, Mindola shows you exactly what will go:

• the sources in that space
• the facts in that space
• any subspaces, and everything inside those

Deleting is permanent. There is no undo, so archive instead if you only want the space out of the way.

Two things happen alongside the delete. Any lens scoped to that space loses it from its scope, so the lens can no longer answer from that material. The word allowance used by the deleted sources is credited back to you. See Word allowance.

Try this

• Archive first when you are unsure. You can always delete later, but you cannot undelete.

• Check the counts in the confirmation. A small space with three big subspaces removes far more than it looks like at first glance.

• Before sharing, think in spaces: “what is the smallest set of spaces that answers what this person needs?” That set is your lens scope.

• Keep a private space for things you never want shared. As long as no lens is scoped to it, it stays yours alone.