Your workspace
A workspace is a real folder on the machine running Open WebUI Computer, not an upload or a copy. Point Computer at /Users/you/src/project and you get that actual directory: its files, its git checkout, shells that start there, and the AI chats about it.
Selecting a workspace brings everything for that project into one view:
- Files and editor: browse the tree, edit with syntax highlighting, preview Markdown, images, PDFs, and office documents.
- Terminals: full shells on the host that keep running when you close the browser.
- Git: branch, diffs, staging, commits, push/pull, stashes, and worktrees without the command line.
- Chats: AI conversations scoped to the project, stored as files inside it.
- Previews and browser: open a dev server's port or any URL in a tab next to your work.
Tabs, splits, and layout
Everything opens in a tab: files, terminals, chats, browser views, port previews. Drag a tab to split the view, then split any section again, as many times as you want. Drag the dividers to resize each section.
The layout is remembered per workspace, across devices. Arrange a terminal beside its logs and a diff next to the source on your desktop, and the same arrangement is waiting when you open that workspace from your phone or another computer. Switching workspaces switches layouts; nothing gets lost.
In this section
| I want to | Page |
|---|---|
| Add a project folder or switch between projects | Add and switch workspaces |
| Browse, edit, and preview files | Files and editor |
| Run commands and long-lived processes | Terminals |
| Stage, diff, commit, branch | Git |
| Check a dev server or open a website in a tab | Preview local apps and browse |
| Find a file, chat, or message | Search and chats |
| Take notes, record memos, share from my phone | Notes, memos, and sharing in |