# Your home

> Navigate Space, arrange your board, and keep a note or scratchpad close by.

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Every visit opens Home with your widgets just below a compact toolbar. **Talk
with Kin** starts a conversation; on phones it is the toolbar's chat icon.
Choose the Space wordmark or **Home** to return there from another page. Leaving
Chat for Home releases the browser's attachment to
the conversation while Kin can keep working; your unsent message stays available.

## Find your way around

The sidebar opens **Chat**, **Projects**, **Files**, **Source**, and **Terminal**.
The workspace name opens its Overview. Your account menu opens **Your profile**,
**Settings**, and the **Space user guide** on this site.

Collapse the sidebar with the control beside the wordmark or Ctrl+B (⌘B on a
Mac). The narrow icon rail remembers your choice. Hover or focus an icon for
its label. On phones, use the navigation drawer.

The search control, or Ctrl+K / ⌘K, opens the command palette. Type a page,
session title, or action such as “history” or “Paper.” Select the matching row.
[The palette can also send a question to Kin](/docs/space/conversations/#search-or-ask-kin).

The ⓘ beside a control gives a short explanation. Hover or focus it to read,
tap to keep it open, and press Escape or tap elsewhere to close it.

## Arrange the board

Your home has a full-width toolbar with separate widget cards centered below it.
The grid fits the available width, with one column on a phone and up to four
on a wide screen. Cards keep a comfortable width on large displays, and a
smaller collection stays centered.

1. Choose **Edit home**.
2. Drag a widget by its dotted handle. The highlighted edge and floating label
   show whether it will go before or after another widget. Release to place it;
   dragging near the top or bottom scrolls the page.
3. You can also use the **Move earlier** and **Move later** buttons, or focus a
   handle and press an arrow key. These controls work without dragging.
4. Use **Small** or **Wide** to switch sizes, the settings control to configure
   a widget, or the trash control to remove it. Wide spans two columns where
   there is room; both sizes fill the width on a phone.
5. Choose **Done**, or press Escape. Escape during a drag cancels that move and
   leaves editing open.

Changes save as you make them. If a layout cannot be saved, your arrangement
stays visible and **Retry save** tries again. Wait for the saved state before
reloading or leaving Home.

**Add widget** opens a gallery with descriptions and sizes for built-ins and
custom widgets found on your Space. Widgets already on the board are marked
**On your home**. Choose a widget to add it and enter Edit home with its handle
focused. **Make one with Kin** opens Chat with widget-authoring guidance in your
draft. You can open the gallery before entering Edit home.

Removing a widget from the board does not delete a scratchpad file or a custom
widget's files.

**Sessions** returns to live or saved conversations. **Recent files** opens
a file; its separate **Discuss** control adds context to a message. **Kept
close** returns to [artifacts you pinned](/docs/space/artifacts/).

## Write a note or scratchpad

Choose **Add widget → Welcome** if you want a greeting and personal note on
Home. This optional card can be moved, resized or removed in **Edit home**.
Use its pencil to edit the note. Enter or leaving the field saves; Escape
cancels. **Settings → A note for your home** edits the same saved note, even
when the widget is absent. Removing the Welcome card keeps your note for later.

The **Scratchpad** is an ordinary file, initially `~/Workspace/Scratchpad.md`.
It saves after a one-second pause and when you leave the field. Wait for its
saved state before reloading. Kin can read and edit this file too.

If another editor changes it, Space shows the newer text. Choose **Use the
newer text** to accept it, or **Keep mine** after checking what would be replaced.
An unsaved-change prompt offers **Stay** so you can retry a failed save.

Scratchpad settings can choose another relative file path. Its containing folder
must already exist; [Files](/docs/space/files/) can create it.

## Change appearance and time

**Settings → Appearance** offers Graphite, Paper, or Device. Device follows your
system's light or dark setting. Clock settings choose 12- or 24-hour time,
seconds, and up to three additional time zones.

For a custom board item, continue with [Artifacts and widgets](/docs/space/artifacts/).

_Source authority: Kinra Site (src/content/docs/space/home.md)._