Navigating the Pieces Desktop

The Pieces for Developers Desktop Application offers a variety of views and layouts to enhance your workflow, with primary navigation occurring through the Power Menu.

Power Menu

Navigation throughout the Pieces Desktop App is performed through the Power Menu.

To open the Power Menu, click the Home Icon to the left of the search bar, or you can use the ⌘+return (macOS) or ctrl+enter (Windows/Linux).

Interactive, labeled buttons in this menu let you jump to different views that correspond with different features and functionalities within the Pieces Desktop App.

There are 7 views available within the Power Menu at any given point.

If you want more information, click the titles of the views below to read more specific documentation on them:

  • Pieces Copilot / Pieces Drive: Depending on which view you’re currently in, one of these buttons will display—or both, if in another view.

  • Settings: The master settings window.

  • Captured Context: View websites, anchors, people, annotations, and tags captured by LTM.

  • Updates & Upcoming: View release notes for upcoming features and past releases.

  • Snippet Discovery: Let Pieces scan a local code repository for useful materials.

  • Workflow Activity: See top materials, recent searches, and a timeline history of added or adjusted materials within the Pieces Drive.

  • Global Search: Search your Pieces Drive for specific saved materials.

via Power Menu — Find Action

From within the Power Menu, there is a search bar titled Find Action.

From this menu, you can either click or scroll through some of the available options, like Manage General Copilot Settings, New General Copilot Conversation, or Refresh Selected Chat.

These actions, some of which are view-specific—like refreshing a selected Pieces Copilot Chat—are useful ways to navigate throughout the Pieces Desktop App while maintaining speed and efficiency in your workflow.

Included at the very end of the scrollable Find Actions list are links to other Pieces for Developers plugins and extensions, as well as social outlets (Pieces YouTube, Pieces Discord, etc.) and two additional links for reporting issues or contacting support.

via Power Menu — Settings

The Settings view is the only page from which the Power Menu cannot be accessed.

This view contains several different buckets of configurable options, such as Account & Cloud, Pieces Copilot & Machine Learning, Aesthetics & Layouts, and other settings.

Focus Mode

Focus Mode allows you to concentrate on your current task by minimizing distractions.

You can toggle Focus Mode by clicking the Focus Mode button located in the upper left of the Pieces Copilot or Pieces Drive view, near the sidebar.

When activated, it closes the sidebar, giving you an expanded view of your current Pieces Copilot conversation.

To exit Focus Mode, simply click the button again to restore the sidebar, or press esc (macOS/Windows/Linux).

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