Organize & navigate

Long-running agent work produces a lot of conversation. These features keep it navigable.

Pin what matters

Projects, threads, and individual transcript messages can be pinned. Pinned messages live in the Environment panel next to editable, autosaving thread notes — a scratchpad that stays with the task.

Mark transcript moments

Mark important moments in a transcript and jump back to them later. Markers are managed from the Environment panel, so a 200-message thread stays navigable.

Find text in the current conversation

Press mod+f to open the floating transcript search. Synara highlights matching message text, shows the active result and total count, and supports previous/next navigation without treating tool-only activity as conversation text.

Close the panel to remove its temporary highlights. Transcript search does not change messages, markers, or pinned content.

Recap long threads

The thread recap panel generates an in-place summary of a long chat and caches it. Useful before a handoff or when returning to a task after days away.

Split views

Drag a chat into a split pane to keep two tasks visible side by side — even across projects. Expanding a pane opens that chat full-screen.

Jump between surfaces

The recent-view switcher gives keyboard-first navigation through recent chats, terminals, and workspace surfaces, with keycap hints. Combined with the keyboard shortcuts, you rarely need the pointer.

The primary sidebar destinations can also be dragged into your preferred order. Synara keeps that order across windows and restarts while adding newly introduced destinations to a sensible default position.

Edit files beside the chat

The editor workspace opens a file tree and syntax-highlighted editor next to the conversation, and can move file references straight into prompts. For bigger edits, open-in launchers hand the project to VS Code, Cursor, Zed, JetBrains IDEs, Xcode, Ghostty, Terminal, and others.

File preview updates

Open text, image, PDF, and diff views revalidate when workspace files change. Unsaved text edits are protected from background replacement. Check the task's checkout before treating an updated preview as evidence from a particular branch.

Choose Split diff or Stacked diff in Diff options. Synara remembers this choice when you reopen the panel and after an app restart. Split is the default until you save a preference.

Rename and retain your layout

Use /rename <title> for a direct title change or bare /rename to generate one from the conversation. The command reference explains empty drafts and concurrent title changes.

Expanded and collapsed sidebar projects remain saved after a restart. Read state is retained too. While a response streams, scrolling up keeps your position instead of letting unrelated tool activity pull you to the bottom.

Search files and source

Press mod+p to find workspace files by name. Press mod+shift+f for grep-style source search across the active project.

File results show the basename and parent path. Source results add the matching line number and excerpt. Choosing either result opens that file in the task's right-dock file pane, so search, Markdown file links, and the Explorer lead to the same review surface.

Search is scoped to the active workspace. If a result appears to come from the wrong checkout, verify the task's local or worktree environment before editing it.

Track local dev servers

The Environment panel can start, view, and stop tracked project dev servers, so the preview you are testing against is managed from the same place as the task. mod+shift+b toggles the browser preview, mod+d the diff panel.

Export a thread

In a saved, idle chat, run /export (or use the command menu) to download a ZIP containing thread.json and a readable transcript.md. Good for sharing a session, filing an issue, or archiving how a change was made.