Canvas & Navigation
Folders in folders: nesting & breadcrumbs
One canvas would eventually drown. visualOS scales by nesting: every folder opens into its own canvas, folders hold folders, and the breadcrumb trail keeps you oriented at any depth.
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Going down
Double-click a folder to enter it. Inside is a full canvas of its own — with its own layout, its own camera position, its own contents. Create more folders inside; there is no depth limit. A structure like Studio → Clients → Sable → Moodboard is four double-clicks and feels like walking through rooms.
Going up: the breadcrumbs
The trail at the top always shows your full path, starting at the workspace:
- Click any crumb to jump straight there — no stepping through levels.
- Double-click the last crumb to rename the current folder.
- Alt+Backspace goes up one level; the browser back button walks back up too (the app maintains real history entries).
Moving things between levels
- Down: drag elements onto a folder card — they move inside.
- Across / up: cut & paste — Cmd/Ctrl+X, navigate, Cmd/Ctrl+V.
Structure advice (from heavy users)
- Let structure emerge. Start flat; when a cluster forms, select it and drop it into a fresh folder. Structure should follow content, not precede it.
- Name folders for retrieval — search shows the folder path with every result, so good names pay rent daily.
- 3–4 levels serve most people. Deeper works fine technically; your naming discipline is usually the limit.
On disk, too
With a connected folder, this exact hierarchy exists as real nested directories — see What’s inside your folder.