Workspaces: separate contexts for every project

Keep clients, projects, and roles neatly separated in Floutwork. Each workspace holds its own apps and tabs so work never bleeds together.

Workspaces are Floutwork’s answer to context-switching. Instead of juggling tabs across a single cluttered browser, you create a dedicated workspace for each project, client, or role — then switch between them with one click. Every workspace remembers its own open apps and tabs exactly as you left them.

What is a workspace?

A Workspace is a self-contained environment inside Floutwork. Each one holds its own set of open web apps and tabs, grouped by app. When you switch workspaces, Floutwork instantly restores the apps and tabs for that context, so you never have to hunt for where you were.

Think of each workspace as a separate desk — one for your client work, one for your side project, one for internal tools — all inside a single window.

How to create a workspace

1. Open the Workspaces panel

   Click the Workspaces icon in the left sidebar to open the workspace switcher.

2. Add a new workspace

   Click + New Workspace at the bottom of the panel. Give it a clear name — for example, “Client A”, “Marketing”, or “Side Project”.

3. Set up your apps

   Open the web apps you need for that workspace from the Launchpad. Floutwork groups each app’s tabs together automatically.

4. Start working

   Everything you open stays in this workspace until you close it. Next time you switch back, your apps reopen exactly where you left off.

Switching between workspaces

Click any workspace name in the left sidebar to switch to it instantly. Floutwork saves the state of your current workspace — open tabs, scroll position, and all — and restores the one you’re switching to.

Assign distinct names to each workspace so the switcher stays scannable at a glance. Short names like “Client A”, “Design”, or “Admin” work better than long descriptive phrases.

The Shared Workspace

Floutwork includes a built-in Shared Workspace that sits alongside your personal workspaces. Use it for tools you rely on across every context — your calendar, a company wiki, or an internal dashboard. Apps in the Shared Workspace are always accessible regardless of which workspace you’re currently in.

Use cases

Client work

Give each client their own workspace. Gmail threads, project docs, and task boards for one client stay completely separate from another’s.

Different roles

Switch between a “PM” workspace (Jira, Linear, Notion) and a “Design” workspace (Figma, Zeplin, Dribbble) without mixing tabs.

Side projects

Keep your side project’s research, notes, and tools isolated from your day job so you can context-switch cleanly.

Environments

Maintain separate workspaces for staging and production dashboards to avoid acting on the wrong environment by mistake.

Keeping workspaces focused

Resist the urge to open every tool in every workspace. Pin only the apps that are directly relevant to that workspace in the Launchpad — a leaner workspace is faster to navigate and easier to return to after a break.

What’s next

Launchpad

Pin your most-used web apps so you can launch them into any workspace in one click.

Smart browser

Learn how Floutwork’s built-in work browser keeps tabs grouped by app within each workspace.