Updated Mar 13, 2026
Most AI writing tools treat the conversation and the document as separate things. You describe what you want in one place, get something back, paste it somewhere else. The thinking and the writing never share the same view.
The workspace is designed around keeping them together. The chat is on the left. The document is in the centre. They stay in sync because they're the same tool.
Ask Thinker to create a document. It picks the project, writes, and opens it. replay →
You start a conversation in the left panel. Something like: Create a new concept document on calendar apps and the sociotechnical gap.
Before writing anything, Thinker asks which project this belongs to. It reads your existing projects and surfaces them as a numbered list. You pick one. That context shapes everything that follows.
Then it works iteratively, asking clarifying questions about angle, audience, or structure before it starts drafting. The draft appears in the editor as it's written, paragraph by paragraph, so you can read and redirect as it goes rather than waiting for a finished output to review.
When the draft is in the editor you can continue the conversation, asking it to expand a section, shift the tone, or take a different angle entirely. The document and the dialogue stay connected throughout.
The tab problem: you'd have a Claude window, a Google Doc, maybe a Notion page, shuttling text between them. Each switch costs something, you lose your thread, lose the context of what you were trying to do.
The layout is a deliberate response to that. Chat on the left, editor in the centre, file tree on the right. Three panels, one view. Nothing lives somewhere else.
The editor is intentionally minimal. A title, a toolbar, your text. There's nothing in there that isn't doing something.
The file tree on the right is how everything stays organised. Projects are folders. Documents live inside them. When Thinker creates something new, it drops it in the right place automatically, you don't have to touch it.
The blue dot next to a new document is a small thing. But I find it satisfying. You can see exactly where the new work landed.
The workspace is designed to get out of the way. The less you notice the tool, the more you're just thinking.