A programming environment for the Mac
Manifold
Built around terminals and the work that grows out of them — on this Mac, and on the machines you work on.
Manifold works like a wiki rather than a set of windows. Terminals, files, notes, folders and web pages are blocks, and everything is linked: a space links the blocks it shows, a note the blocks it mentions, and what you do leaves links behind — this terminal opened that file, this search found that line. You arrange blocks in spaces, come back to them, and follow the links back.
On screen Tiles in a grid, each a block through a lens — a terminal, an editor, a preview — under a bar with its title and its links.
Spaces arrange placements: which block, which lens, where. A pin keeps a block without a tile. A space stays until you remove it.
The graph Blocks and the links between them. Solid links keep what they reach; dashed ones are history. What no space reaches is collected after half an hour.
Hosts Every block lives on a host — this Mac, a dev box — as a log its server keeps. One window shows blocks from many.
Start here
- Getting started — build it, run it, attach a host.
- The guide — spaces, tiles, opening things, finding things.
- Keys — every shortcut, by menu.
- The source, the README and DESIGN.md.
This page works as Manifold does. Click a link and its block opens
below the tile you clicked in — or, if it's open already, you go to it.
⌘-click opens it beside; ⌥-click stacks it over.
Click a bar to grow its tile, ⌘-click it to fill the column,
drag the gaps to resize, and press ⌘K to open anything quickly.