Spaces
What is a Space in Step?
Spaces are persistent browsing contexts. Each one keeps its own tabs, groups, splits, and scroll positions.
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A Space is the unit of organization in Step. It is a self-contained browsing context like Work, Research, Travel, or Personal. Switching between Spaces is instant and never loses anything.
What a Space contains
Tabs, tab groups, the active split layout, scroll positions, page-level annotations, and the navigation trail. Step writes everything to a local SQLite database on every meaningful change.
Why Spaces, not windows
A window dies when you close it. A Space survives. Reopen Step tomorrow and your Research Space is exactly where you left it: same tabs, same groups, same scroll positions, same split.
How many to create
Most people use three to seven Spaces. There is no hard limit. Spaces you haven't touched in a while stay on disk and don't consume memory until you switch back into them.