The Workspace

The workspace is where you actually work on a project. When you open a project, its workspace fills the window — showing all active content and giving you a focused view of just that project.

The Three-Column Layout

On Mac and iPad, the workspace is built around three columns:

1. Navigator (sidebar) — Issue groups, versions, milestones, and the board entry. This is how you choose what you're looking at.
2. Issue Browser (middle) — The list of issues matching whatever the Navigator has selected. Sort, filter, and reorder here.
3. Issue Detail (right) — The full view of the selected issue. Edit properties, write notes, add subtasks, attach files, and browse history.

Selecting something in the Navigator populates the Issue Browser; selecting an issue in the Browser populates the Detail. Most of your day-to-day movement through a project is along this left-to-right path.

The Navigator

The Navigator is the sidebar that provides navigation across the entire project. It has three sections:

Issue Groups

Quick-access groupings at the top of the Navigator that filter every issue in the project by some criterion:

• All Issues — Every issue in the project
• Unsorted — Issues not assigned to a version or milestone (your backlog)
• Bookmarked — Issues you've flagged for quick access
• Due — Issues with due dates set
• Closed — Resolved issues
• Assigned To Me — Issues assigned to the current user

You can also add dynamic groups for any individual status or priority in the project — for example, a group that surfaces just the "In Review" issues, or just the Urgent ones.

Customizing which groups are shown:

• iOS — Tap the Edit button in the Navigator sidebar, then toggle groups on or off.
• Mac — View → Add Issue Group, then pick which group to add.

Each group displays a count of open issues beside it. Expansion and collapse state persists across sessions, and your Navigator configuration syncs across devices when iCloud is enabled.

Versions & Milestones

Below the issue groups, the Navigator displays the project's organizational hierarchy. Versions expand to reveal their child milestones, and selecting any version or milestone scopes the Issue Browser to just the issues inside it. See Versions & Milestones for how this hierarchy works.

The Board

A permanent item in Navigator that switches to the kanban board view. Selecting it replaces the three-column layout with the board — see The Board.

The Issue Browser

The middle column displays issues for whatever you've selected in the Navigator. A few things you can do here:

• Sort by any property: priority, due date, status, reference number, title, type, and more.
• Scope to show open issues, closed issues, or all of them.
• Reorder manually by dragging — issues maintain a custom order within any group, version, or milestone.

The Issue Detail

The rightmost column is where you view and edit a single issue. Everything about the issue lives here: title, notes, all properties, subtasks, attachments, links, history, and the close/reopen workflow. See Issues for what's inside.

The Board View

When the Board is selected in the Navigator, the kanban board replaces the three-column layout entirely. Tapping a card on the board opens the issue in its own window rather than in the Detail column — so the board stays in view while you work on one of its cards.

Platform Differences

Fox is a native app on every Apple platform, and the workspace adapts to each one.

• iPhone — An adaptive, push-based layout for compact screens. You move between the Navigator, Browser, and Detail as separate views rather than seeing all three at once.

All three platforms share the same data through iCloud — start on one device, continue on another. See iCloud Sync.

See Also

• Projects — What the workspace is a window into
• Issues — What lives in the Issue Browser and Detail
• The Board — The alternative view to the three-column layout
• Versions & Milestones — The hierarchy the Navigator displays
• Keyboard Shortcuts — Moving through the workspace without the mouse