Spaces

Keep work and personal projects in one bb without seeing both at once. Pick a space from the sidebar header and the thread list shows only that space's projects and their threads.

What you get

• A space switcher in the sidebar header, with New thread on its own row underneath. Each space has a name, an icon and an optional tint.
• A menu with every space, a checkmark on the current one, All projects to leave spaces, and Edit Spaces….
• Switching to a space reopens the thread you last had open there, so you pick up where you left off.
• Ctrl + Alt + 1 to 9 (⌃ ⌥ 1 to 9 on macOS) switch to the first nine spaces; bb already uses Ctrl/⌘ + 1–9 to jump between threads. The command palette also has Next space, Previous space, Show all projects and Edit Spaces.
• Edit Spaces… sets each space's name, icon, tint, order and projects. A project in no space shows in every space.
• Drag folders from Explorer or Finder into Edit Spaces: each folder becomes a project in the selected space, and a folder that is already a project is reused.
• Eight tints (blue, teal, green, yellow, orange, red, pink, purple) color the sidebar of the active space, so Work and Personal look different at a glance. The content area keeps your theme's colors, and the tint follows any theme in light and dark mode.
• 33 space icons in three rows (work, making and learning, life), including a rocket, briefcase, camera and airplane from the free Hugeicons set.
• bb space list, bb space <name|number>, bb space off and bb space add [--space <name>] <folder>... do the same from a terminal or an agent.

How it works

Switching writes the Thread list plugin's hidden groups. Spaces only adds and removes its own project:<id> keys, so groups you hide yourself stay hidden. While a space is active the thread list is grouped by project, because project groups exist only in that mode; All projects puts your previous grouping back.

By default the list's More row is hidden while it only holds other spaces' projects. Turn on Show other spaces' projects under More in Edit Spaces to keep them reachable there.

Requirements and limits

• bb 0.49 or later, with the bundled Thread list plugin enabled.
• Spaces replaces the sidebar navigation with bb's Rail plus the switcher. Choose it under Settings → Appearance → Navigation if another navigation plugin is active.
• The New thread row and the hidden More row rely on bb's sidebar markup. If a bb update changes it, New thread moves back into the header and More shows again; nothing is lost.
• bb tells plugins only a dropped folder's name, so Spaces looks the folder up on disk (git repos, then your home folder and drives, four levels deep). If two folders share a name the most recently active git repo wins; pass a path to bb space add to be exact.
• Choose All projects before you uninstall, so every project shows again.