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Commander

Workspaces & Projects

Learn about Workspaces & Projects in WaymakerOS.

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Workspaces are the main organizing layer in Commander. Each workspace contains projects, and projects contain your tools — taskboards, documents, sheets, and everything else.

What is a workspace?

A workspace is a collection of related work. Think of it as a department, client, or business area.

Examples

  • Marketing workspace — projects for campaigns, content, SEO
  • Engineering workspace — projects for sprints, infrastructure, releases
  • Client: Acme Corp workspace — all deliverables for one client
  • Operations workspace — projects for hiring, finance, facilities

Creating a workspace

  1. In the Explorer module (Cmd+1), click Create Workspace
  2. Name your workspace
  3. Add an optional description
  4. The workspace appears in the Explorer sidebar

What is a project?

Projects live inside workspaces. Each project groups a set of tools that belong together.

Examples

  • Marketing workspace → Q1 Campaign project (taskboard, documents, dashboard)
  • Engineering workspace → Sprint 14 project (taskboard, sheets)
  • Operations workspace → Hiring 2026 project (forms, tables, documents)

Creating a project

  1. In the Explorer, expand your workspace
  2. Click + next to the workspace name
  3. Select New Project
  4. Name the project

Adding tools to a project

With a project open, click + to add:

  • Taskboard
  • Document
  • Sheet
  • Table
  • Form
  • Presentation
  • Dashboard

Each tool is created inside the project and appears in the Explorer tree.

The Explorer module

Press Cmd+1 to open the Explorer. It shows your workspace and project tree with all tools nested inside. This is the primary way to navigate your work.

Quick actions

Right-click any item in the Explorer for contextual actions:

  • Rename
  • Move to another project
  • Duplicate
  • Archive
  • Delete

Each workspace can keep links to the third-party tools its team uses, like Canva, Figma or HubSpot. Open Tools > Apps to add, open and remove them. Links are per workspace, so each team gets its own launcher.

See Workspace Links for details.

The Tools module

Press Cmd+3 to open the Tools module. This shows all tools across all workspaces in a flat, filterable list. Use it when you want to:

  • See all your documents across every workspace
  • Find a specific sheet by name
  • Filter by status (active, draft, archived)
  • Filter by owner (mine, shared, all)

Workspace permissions

Workspace access is controlled by organisation membership. All organisation members can see workspaces they have access to. Project-level and tool-level permissions can further restrict who sees what.

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