SPACES
Persistent browsing contexts.
Each Space is a self-contained world. Tabs, groups, splits, scroll positions, annotations, everything restored when you come back.
Modern browsers treat your browsing as ephemeral. Close the window and most of the shape of your work is gone, scroll positions, the page you read three times, the trail you were following. Spaces flip that assumption. Each Space is a persistent context that survives close, restart, and crash. Open the browser tomorrow and your Research Space is exactly where you left it.
A Space holds tabs, groups, the active split layout, scroll positions per tab, annotations, and the navigation trail. State is written to a local SQLite database on every meaningful change. Switching Spaces is instant: the previous Space stays alive in memory, the new one swaps in. Closing the browser flushes everything to disk. Reopening reads it back.
Use Spaces to separate the contexts you naturally have: Work, Personal, a long-running research project, a shopping comparison, travel planning. The first Space is created automatically. Add more from the sidebar with a single click. There's no limit. Spaces you haven't touched in a while stay on disk and don't consume memory.
Where it shows up
- Keep a research project alive for weeks without losing the trail.
- Separate Work tabs from Personal tabs without juggling profiles.
- Maintain a shopping comparison Space across multiple sessions.
- Plan a trip in its own Space and reopen it the night before departure.
- Run multiple client projects without their tabs bleeding into each other.
Frequently asked
How are Spaces different from Chrome profiles?
Is there a limit on the number of Spaces?
What happens if Step crashes?
Can I share a Space with someone else?
Related features
Two pages, side by side.
A real 2-pane split with independent URL bars, independent navigation, and full Space integration. Drag a tab to create one. Close it to dissolve it.
Your exploration, as a graph.
Step Trail records how you got to each page and where you branched. It's a visual map of your thinking, not a flat history list.