Taking the workspace tour
On a computer, Bitment looks and behaves like a small operating system rather than a single web page. Apps open as windows you can drag, resize, and stack. A menu bar runs across the top. A dock along the bottom launches apps. And the space behind your open windows is a real desktop, with its own wallpaper and its own files. On a phone, the same workspace becomes an iOS-style home screen. This page is a tour of that layout.
Where to find it
This is the workspace you land in as soon as you sign in. There's nothing to turn on.
Key concepts
- Dock: the row of app tiles along the bottom of the screen (desktop only). Click a tile to open that app.
- Window: one open app. Windows can be dragged, resized, minimized, maximized, and closed independently.
- Menu bar: the row across the very top of the screen: the focused window's name on the left, and on the right the recorder, meeting, AI, search, notifications, keyboard shortcuts, and your account avatar.
- Desktop: the wallpaper behind your windows. It is also a real folder in your Files.
- Springboard: the phone equivalent of the desktop: a grid of app icons you tap to open.
Open and arrange windows
- Click a tile in the dock to open an app. It appears as a window on the desktop.
- Drag a window by its title bar to move it. Drag an edge or corner to resize it.
- Click the yellow traffic-light button to minimize a window. It collapses into the dock, past a divider on the right, and stays running in the background.
- Click the red traffic-light button to close a single window.
- Double-click a title bar (or drag it to the very top edge of the screen) to maximize the window. Dragging a maximized window's title bar back down restores it to its previous size, right under wherever you grabbed the title bar.
- Click the green traffic-light button to enter true full screen. This hides the dock and menu bar entirely. Full screen is deliberately sticky: dragging the title bar does not leave it. Click the green button again, or press ⌥↓ (Option+Down), to come back out.
- Each window remembers its position, size, and color between sessions.
Window shortcuts
| Action | Shortcut |
|---|---|
| Cycle between windows | ⌥Tab (⇧⌥Tab reverses) |
| Tile the focused window to the left half | ⌥← |
| Tile the focused window to the right half | ⌥→ |
| Maximize the focused window | ⌥↑ |
| Restore the focused window | ⌥↓ |
| Quit the focused app (every window it has open) | Hold ⌥Q |
While the window switcher (⌥Tab) is open, tapping Q quits whichever app the switcher is currently highlighting, not the one you started in, hold ⌥, tab over to the app you want closed, then press Q.
In the Mac or Windows desktop app, ⌘ (or Ctrl) also works in place of ⌥ for most of these. See Keyboard shortcuts overview for the full picture and Keyboard shortcuts for the complete reference.
Window colors
Every window's title bar carries a small color picker. Choosing a color tints that window and is remembered per app, so the same app opens in the same color the next time, on any device you sign in on.
The menu bar
A thin bar runs along the very top of the screen (desktop and web, not on a phone). It carries:
- The focused window's name on the left. Clicking it gives you a "Quit" option for that app.
- Any per-app menus the focused app contributes (the Browser app, for example, adds its own Settings and History menus while it's focused).
- The action cluster on the right: the recorder, the meeting control, the AI control, search, notifications, the keyboard-shortcuts button, and your account avatar.
- A live clock at the far right.
Customize your desktop background
- Right-click any exposed wallpaper.
- Choose one of the built-in backgrounds, or upload your own image.
- Your choice follows you to every device you sign in on.
If you'd rather have no wallpaper at all, close the "Set your desktop background" panel (its ✕, or Not now) and it stays closed. It reappears only if you later set a wallpaper and then remove it.
Use the desktop as a file folder
The wallpaper isn't only a backdrop. It's the Desktop folder in your Personal drive, so anything you keep there also shows up in the Files app (Files › Desktop, directly under Personal).
- Drag files from your computer onto the wallpaper to upload them.
- Double-click an icon to open it. A file opens in Files with its preview up; a folder opens Files inside it.
- Drag icons to rearrange them. They snap to a grid and stay put.
- Click and drag on empty wallpaper to rubber-band select a group of icons. Cmd-click adds or removes one icon from the selection; Cmd+A selects everything.
- Right-click a selected icon or icons for Open, Show in Files, Download, Rename, Move to Personal (removes it from the desktop into your Personal drive), and Delete.
- Right-click empty wallpaper for New Folder, Upload Files, Clean Up, Sort By (Name / Kind / Date Modified), Open Desktop in Files, and the background controls.
Where icons sit on the desktop is remembered per computer; the files themselves live on the server, so the same desktop contents appear wherever you sign in.
Paste an image anywhere
Anywhere you can attach a file, you can also just paste one. Copy an image (a screenshot, a picture from a browser or document, a file copied in your file manager), click into the message box, and press ⌘V (Ctrl+V on Windows). It attaches exactly as if you had used the paperclip or dragged the file in.
This works in AI Chat, the AI Assistant pane, Agent chat, Messages (including its Slack, Signal, and Telegram tabs), the email composer, and on a Projects task. A pasted screenshot has no filename of its own, so Bitment names it for you, something like pasted-image-2026-07-30-142309.png, instead of leaving every one of them called "image."
Pasting ordinary text is untouched everywhere. If you copy a block of cells out of a spreadsheet, you get the cells, not a picture of them, even though both are on the clipboard. In a box with no attachments at all, like a search field or a name field, pasting an image does nothing. The one exception is the email signature editor, which has no attachments: a pasted logo drops in at the cursor like the editor's own image button (keep it under 1 MB, since it rides along on every message you send).
The phone home screen
On a phone, the same workspace becomes an iOS-style home screen:
- A grid of app icons you tap to open.
- A bottom home bar with a Home button, a multitasking (app switcher) button, and a quick actions button.
- A card switcher for the apps you have running, reached from the multitasking button or by swiping up on the home bar.
Pull down on the home screen to reveal the search field and open the search palette. The quick actions button opens a sheet with the Assistant, Search, and Alerts, the recorder and meeting controls, and your account row. Tap the account row to switch between portals, toggle light/dark appearance, open account settings, or sign out.
Tips
- Minimized windows stay fully running, so a call or a long-running task in a minimized window keeps going.
- A window you drag toward the bottom of the screen slides behind the dock rather than being clipped by it.
- The desktop's exposed wallpaper is not a drag handle for the whole app window; use the menu bar's empty band or its clock to move the Bitment window itself in the desktop app.