A desktop workspace manager built around each task.

Save the resources that belong to a workspace.

A workspace is a saved setup for a project, task, class, client, or activity. Stowen is being built to let you capture selected open resources or assemble a workspace manually, without opening everything first.

• Add apps, local files, folders, URLs, notes, and approved startup commands.
• Capture supported windows with their positions, sizes, and monitor assignments.
• Keep selected browser tabs and their window organization together.
• Save supported editor projects, open files, navigation locations, and terminal working directories.
• Review and remove resources before saving. Attach only the local files you choose.

The planned dashboard includes search, rename, duplicate, archive, and delete actions, plus access to basic shared workspaces. Saved preferences will cover apps, project locations, and default layouts.

Restore your workspace when you switch tasks.

We’re designing Stowen to preserve the current workspace before opening another, then let you return while keeping work from both sessions. Matching open resources would be reused where the integration supports it.

Restoration is planned to reopen resources, recover supported tabs and editor state, and adapt window layouts to the monitors available. Approved startup commands can run in order, with readiness checks for configured services.

Not every app exposes the same state. Stowen is being designed to report successful, partial, and failed restores; identify missing apps, files, permissions, or dependencies; and remember replacement paths you confirm. Session-owned processes should stop only with user control.

See how saved context fits into a task-switching routine.

Keep checkpoints and useful notes, even offline.

Manual snapshots will preserve earlier versions of a workspace. Editable notes can record progress, attempted approaches, and the next action, so restoring the files also gives you a place to start.

Core local creation, capture, search, and restoration are planned to work offline. Global keyboard shortcuts and a system-tray or menu-bar interface will provide quick access. Manual controls remain available without AI.

Continue on another configured device.

Cross-device continuity is planned around selected metadata, notes, snapshots, and attachments. You choose what is uploaded and map project paths and resource locations separately on each device.

Before restoration, Stowen should check device readiness and explain which resources cannot open there. Initial cross-device restoration is planned for the same operating system. A resource must be available on the destination device or included in the files you chose to sync.

Share a task with its setup and next steps.

A planned handoff combines selected resources with instructions, progress notes, reproduction steps, attachments, logs, links, and startup recipes. You’ll preview the exact package before creating a recipient-restricted link, and be able to revoke that link.

Recipients will use their own accounts and repository permissions. The planned flow preserves their current workspace, opens the handoff in a temporary context, and lets them return selected deliverables with an editable completion note. Code changes are planned to be applied against a known base commit in an isolated Git worktree.

A web companion will show package contents and prerequisites before installation, then guide sign-in, desktop setup, and opening the handoff. Read the handoff workflow and checklist.

Create and update workspaces with AI.

The planned assistant can build a workspace from a natural-language request, pasted brief, assignment, supplied document, or context from one supported issue tracker. It should resolve ambiguous task references and use your saved app, path, and layout preferences.

On request, it can inspect supported open resources, suggest what belongs to a task, and let you correct the selection. Conversation can help add or replace resources, adjust layouts, update startup recipes, and find previous work from a description.

We also plan help with restoration failures, device mappings, handoff instructions, missing prerequisites, and return packages. Summaries remain editable and distinguish recorded facts from inference. Launching an external coding agent will use an approved task context through a defined integration.

Choose what is captured, uploaded, and executed.

Planned controls let you exclude apps, paths, files, and sensitive resources. Credentials, browser cookies, and authenticated sessions are excluded from transfers. Recipients need their own access, and commands from imported handoffs require approval before execution.

Encryption is part of the planned sync and sharing scope. Content review comes before cloud upload or sharing; saving a local workspace should not automatically upload its files.

Which apps and operating systems will be supported?

Initial coverage is planned for one desktop operating system, one browser, one code editor, one issue tracker, and a defined external coding-agent integration. Common apps, files, folders, URLs, attachments, and configured terminal commands are also in scope. Support for a file reference does not imply that every app’s internal state can be captured.

See planned beta pricing for proposed cloud allowances, or tell us about the setup you need.