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A workspace is your primary environment in Bower — everything you capture, organise, and share lives inside one. Workspaces are isolated from each other: notes, collections, members, and settings in one workspace are not visible to another.

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Your first workspace

Your first workspace is created during sign-up. After you create your account at app.bowerlabs.ai, the onboarding flow asks you for a workspace name and creates the workspace for you in the same step. You’re the Owner automatically. Bower also sends a verification email to the address you signed up with. You can keep using the app while it’s unverified, but verifying lets us route account-recovery emails and invites correctly. The link in the email lands you back at Bower, verified.

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What a workspace is good for

Workspaces are the right level of separation for:
  • Different research projects that shouldn’t share members or content
  • A personal workspace separate from a shared lab workspace
  • Client or collaboration contexts that need strict data separation
If you want people to share access to the same notes, they should be in the same workspace. If you want strict separation, use different workspaces.

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Getting an additional workspace

Self-serve creation of additional workspaces is paused while we learn what people actually use them for. If you need another workspace — a second project, a personal scratch space, a separate lab — contact hello@bowerlabs.ai and we’ll set it up for you. We’re matching the right plan and seat configuration to your use case rather than letting workspaces sprawl by accident. The Create New Workspace button is still visible in Settings, but it’s disabled with a tooltip pointing at support — so you always know where the option lives.

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After creation

  • You’re the Owner of the new workspace.
  • No other members are added by default — see Invite team members.
  • All capture, import, and Bird functionality is available immediately.
  • Your other workspaces remain unaffected.

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Switching workspaces

If you belong to more than one, see Switch workspaces — workspaces are listed in the top-left dropdown and on mobile in the Quick Capture page header.