> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://help.peernotes.io/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Workspaces: where your PeerNotes team thinks together

> A workspace is the shared home for a team's thinking in PeerNotes — every thought, note, and source is private until you share it with the group, all organized by topics.

A **workspace** is the container for everything in PeerNotes: the people, the [sources](/core-concepts/sources) they read, the [thoughts](/core-concepts/thoughts) they capture, the [notes](/core-concepts/notes) they develop, the [topics](/core-concepts/topics) that organize it all, and the [Peer Agent](/core-concepts/peer-agent) that works alongside them. Every other concept lives *inside* a workspace.

## What's private, what's shared

Every [thought](/core-concepts/thoughts), [note](/core-concepts/notes), and [source](/core-concepts/sources) is **private to you** until you choose to share it. Sharing is a per-item toggle — **Share with workspace** — and it's always reversible.

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="Private" icon="lock">
    Only you can see it. New thoughts, notes, and sources start here.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Shared with the workspace" icon="users">
    Every member can read it and comment on it. [Notes](/core-concepts/notes) can also take on [collaborators](/features/collaborators) who edit alongside you.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

Defaults for new items are set per type in [Preferences → Sharing](/features/preferences#sharing). The split is the point: capture stays honest because it starts private, and the shared layer stays high-signal because everything in it was deliberately shared.

## Members and admins

Every workspace has two roles:

| Role       | Can do                                                                                                                                                                                     |
| ---------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| **Member** | Capture their own thoughts and sources, write and share notes, collaborate on notes they're invited to, and read everything shared with the workspace.                                     |
| **Admin**  | Everything a member can do, plus manage the workspace itself — its name, description, [topics](/core-concepts/topics), members, and [Peer Agent](/core-concepts/peer-agent) configuration. |

Managing members and settings is covered in [Workspace settings](/features/workspace-settings) — which is also where you [leave a workspace](/features/workspace-settings#leave-a-workspace), or, as an admin, [delete one](/features/workspace-settings#delete-a-workspace).

## Belonging to several workspaces

You can be part of more than one workspace — say, one for your team and one for a reading group — and switch between them from the workspace switcher. Each workspace is fully separate: its own members, topics, sources, notes, chat history, and Peer Agent settings. Your [user preferences](/features/preferences) follow you across all of them.

<Info>
  New to a shared workspace? [Working in a shared workspace](/guides/team) walks through inviting teammates, roles, and how a team navigates the space day to day.
</Info>

## What lives in a workspace

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="Sources" icon="box-archive" href="/core-concepts/sources">
    The documents, pages, and files the team is thinking about.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Thoughts" icon="lightbulb" href="/core-concepts/thoughts">
    Each member's reactions, captured as they read — private unless shared.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Notes" icon="file-lines" href="/core-concepts/notes">
    Thoughts composed into structured thinking and shared with the team.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Topics" icon="tags" href="/core-concepts/topics">
    The themes that run through the workspace, discovered automatically.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Peer Agent" icon="robot" href="/core-concepts/peer-agent">
    An AI participant grounded in the workspace's own material.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Chat" icon="comments" href="/features/chat">
    Per-workspace conversations with the Peer Agent.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>