Command palette and Layout Overview

Command palette

Press ⌃⌥Space from any app, ⌘K while the editor or Settings is in front, or click Search in the editor’s header, a ⌘ button when the header is too narrow for it. While Layout is paused, ⌃⌥Space doesn’t work, but ⌘K and Search still open the palette, with what works without moving windows: the places and pages below, and New workspace from project…, Save desktop as workspace…, Recover hidden windows, Open Layout, Send feedback… and Send diagnostics….

It lists your workspaces, the one you were in before first and the active one last, then Layout’s commands. Each workspace shows the icons of its own apps, the same ones as in ⌥Tab: a wildcard app called into it isn’t one of them. Type to search: the list keeps what matches, best matches first, whether the name or the description holds what you type. Case and accents don’t count. While you type, your windows join the list too, with their app and their workspace, and so do:

Go to: the tabs of Settings, each setting by the name Settings gives it, each action’s shortcut, and Edit followed by a workspace’s name. A setting or a shortcut opens Settings on its row, lit for a moment, and Edit opens the workspace in the editor. A setting Settings shows only at times, like Border color while borders are off, opens on the row that brings it back.
Documentation: the five pages and sections of these docs that match best. A section shows its page’s name.
↑ ↓ choose, Return runs the selection, and Esc closes. You can also click a row.
On a workspace, Return goes there and ⌘Return launches it: its apps open and its layout applies.
On a window, Return opens it, switching to its workspace if needed. A wildcard app’s window comes to the workspace you’re in instead.
On a place or a page of the docs, Return opens it. A page opens in your browser, at its section.

The commands, with their shortcut when they have one:

Command	What it does
New workspace from project…	Sets up a workspace for a project folder. See New workspace from a project.
Stop workspace…	Stops the workspace you’re in: its commands end and its windows close. Not listed in General. See Stop a workspace.
Save desktop as workspace…	Saves the current windows as a new workspace. See Save your desktop.
Overview	Opens the Overview described below.
Focus Agent	Searches agent sessions across your projects. Choosing one focuses it and marks its current result read. See Focus Agent.
Notifications	Lists every notification, from every workspace. See Notifications.
Undo window move or resize	Undoes your last move or resize in the current workspace. See Moving windows.
Recover hidden windows	Brings back every window Layout moved out of sight. Each keeps its workspace. See Recovering windows.
Open Layout	Opens the editor, with your workspaces and settings.
Send feedback…	Sends an idea, a problem or anything else to Layout’s developer. See Feedback.
Send diagnostics…	Sends Layout’s state to its developer for a bug report, or saves it. See Diagnostics.

Layout Overview

The Layout Overview is Layout’s own Mission Control: every workspace along the top, the selected workspace’s windows spread out under it, and your agents on the side. It opens on the display under the pointer.

Open it by swiping up with three or four fingers, as for Mission Control, on Layout’s desktop. It follows your fingers: the desktop blurs, the windows lift off into cards and the workspaces come down from the top. Halfway, the trackpad clicks, and lifting your fingers then opens it; let go before and everything falls back. Swipe down to close it the same way.

You can also open it with ⌃⌥O, with Overview in the Layout menu bar icon’s menu, or from the command palette. It’s available while Layout is active. Press ⌃⌥O again or Esc, or click an empty spot, to close it.

Mission Control is still there

Swipe up again from the Overview to open macOS’s Mission Control, for your full-screen apps and other desktops.
Swiping down from the desktop is still App Exposé.
In full screen or on another desktop, the swipe up is macOS’s.
Swipe up for the Overview in Settings › Shortcuts turns it off. See Settings.

Choose a workspace or a window

Each workspace shows as a small desktop with its apps, its shortcut and a dot on the current one. An agent’s mark, a spinner while an agent works there, and a red count of apps with a Dock badge show what’s going on.

Click a workspace to see its windows, and click it again or press Return to switch to it.
Click a window’s card to go to that window.
Use ← and →, or a sideways swipe, to select the previous or next workspace.
Press / to search workspaces, windows and agents.

The windows keep their workspace’s arrangement: each zone in its place, and the windows a zone stacks laid side by side in it, the most recent first. Windows that float over one another, as in General, are laid out in rows instead, so none hides another. A card says when an agent in that app needs you, has a result to read or is working.

The switch starts the moment you click. The Overview fades over your windows as they land: nothing waits for it.

Answer your agents

The column on the right lists your agent sessions from every workspace: Needs you first, then Unread, Working and Earlier. Each row works as it does in Agents: Deny and Allow, Claude’s questions and plans, Open session and Mark read. Mark all read is above, and the apps’ and Discord’s notifications are below.

Move windows between workspaces

Drag a window’s card onto another workspace to move the window there.
Or right-click the card and choose Move to followed by the workspace’s name.

Moving a window here works like Move To in the editor: the window leaves every other workspace. If the target isn’t the active workspace, the window moves out of sight.

To resize zones, drag their dividers in the editor.

No screenshots

The Layout Overview draws its cards from the layouts and window positions Layout already knows. It takes no screenshot and needs no permission beyond Accessibility.