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nvrl 73ac961751 special: the board, the agenda and the calendar in a workspace of their own
The board swapped out the tree, and the agenda and the calendar were
overlays over it, each with a key to open and a key to close. They are now
three tiles of one special workspace, as the desktop keeps its scratchpad:
the board on the left, the agenda over the calendar on the right.

S puts it up and away from anywhere. b, t and C go straight to their tile,
and put the workspace away when that tile already has focus. Alt-h/j/k/l
move the focus between the tiles, f gives the focused one the porthole,
and the tiles without focus keep their cursors, dimmed. A digit switches
space as everywhere, and the board follows; the board's head names every
space that has one. Enter on an agenda card goes to it on the board beside.
A space without a board says so in the board's tile instead of refusing.

The rail offers the three tiles as doors, so a phone, which shows one at a
time, can walk between them. The help, the README, the wiki and the
screenshots say how it works now.
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# Getting started
## Run it
You need Rust (1.96 or newer) and [bun](https://bun.sh) to build it. The result
is one binary with the whole frontend inside, so the machine it runs on needs
neither.
```sh
git clone https://github.com/narrrl/narl-workspace
cd narl-workspace
cp .env.example .env
```
Open `.env` and set three things:
- `WORKSPACE_USER`: the name you log in with.
- `WORKSPACE_PASSWORD`: the password. The server will not start while it is
still `change-me`.
- `WORKSPACE_SECRET`: 32 random characters that sign the login cookie. Make
one with `openssl rand -base64 32`.
Then build and start it:
```sh
make build
./target/release/narl-workspace
```
and open <http://127.0.0.1:4242>.
With Docker instead, `docker compose up -d --build` does the same; see
[Deploying](Deploying.md). Every other setting has a default that works on
your own machine. [Configuration](Configuration.md) lists them all.
## Log in
![The login](../images/login.png)
The workspace has one account, the one in `.env`. Wrong passwords are answered
more slowly each time. A browser that has logged in before is slowed only by
its own mistakes, so someone guessing from elsewhere cannot lock you out.
## Find your way around
A new workspace has three spaces: `diary`, `work` and `uni`. The bar along
the top shows them as numbered pills. `1`, `2` and `3` switch between them,
and `Tab` steps to the next one.
The screen has four parts:
- **the bar**, at the top: the spaces, where you are in the tree, how many
cards are late or due today, and the clock;
- **the list**, on the left: what is in the folder you are in;
- **the tiles**, on the right: the documents and files you have open;
- **the status line**, at the bottom: the mode you are in, and what the last
key or command did.
The rail of buttons on the right does the same as the keys, for a mouse.
## The first ten minutes
1. Press `2` to go to `work`.
2. Press `o`. A new document opens in the editor, in insert mode. Write
something.
3. Press `Esc` to leave insert mode, then type `:name Plans for the week` and
`Enter` to give it a name. There is no need to save: the document is saved
a couple of seconds after you stop typing. `:w` saves at once anyway.
4. Type `:q` to close it. It is in the list now, under today's date.
5. Press `O` (capital). The command line opens with `:mkdir ` already typed;
add a name and press `Enter`. `l` or `Enter` on the folder goes into it, and
`h` comes back up.
6. Press `c`, type `try the board`, and press `Enter`. That is a card in the
inbox of this space's board. Press `b` to see the board, and `b` again to go
back. It shares a special workspace with the agenda and the calendar: `S`
puts it up, and `Alt-h`/`Alt-l` move between them.
7. Press `T`. That is today's diary entry, started for you.
8. Press `?` for the list of every key and command. `h` / `l` walk its columns, `/` narrows it down, and `Esc` closes it.
On a phone the same things are buttons: the dock at the bottom has a new
document, a new folder, the board, today's entry, an upload and a search, and
the `⋯` on a row (or a long press on it) has what can be done to that row.
![The workspace on a phone](../images/mobile-tree.png)
## Next
[The guide](Guide.md) goes through a whole day with the workspace and
explains each part as it comes up.