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A workspace is where a group thinks together in PeerNotes — a seminar, a research group, a knowledge team, a book club. Each member captures privately inside it; what the group shares is the developed thinking. One home, two layers: yours, and the team’s. This guide is about working in one as a team; for the settings that shape it, see Workspace settings.

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Private by default, shared when you choose

Every thought, note, and source starts private to you. A per-item Share with workspace toggle makes it visible to the whole team in that feed’s Shared view, open for comments — and back to private any time. Notes can also take collaborators who edit alongside you. This split is what makes PeerNotes work: capture stays honest because it starts private, and the shared layer stays high-signal because everything in it was deliberately shared. See Sharing & privacy for the full picture, including per-type defaults.

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Members and administrators

Workspaces have two roles:
  • Members capture their own thoughts, collaborate on notes they’re invited to, and read everything shared with the workspace.
  • Administrators manage the workspace itself — its settings, members, and topics.
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Create a workspace

Give it a name, and optionally seed it with the topics you know you’ll be thinking about.
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Invite members by email

Add teammates from Workspace settings → People — you can invite members and add topics anytime.
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Add administrators (optional)

Share the admin role with co-organizers who should manage members and settings alongside you.
  • Sidebar feeds — Thoughts, Notes, and Sources each have their own feed, so you always know which layer you’re looking at. Each feed has a Shared view showing what the team has shared.
  • Search — press ⌘K (Mac) or Ctrl K (Windows) to search across your workspace from anywhere.
  • Topics — browse the Topics page to see the workspace’s themes and dive into everything on a subject.
  • Chat — ask the Peer Agent about anything in the workspace, or tag it in a comment on any thought, note, or source.

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Multiple workspaces

You can belong to several workspaces — 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, content, and chat.
Treat shared notes as the workspace’s record. When thinking matures — a decision, a finding, a synthesis worth keeping — share it. Over time the Shared view of the Notes feed becomes the knowledge base a new member can read to understand how the group thinks.