Peek

Click a record in a view and it opens in a peek: a panel over the screen you’re on. The list behind it stays where you left it, so you can read or edit one record and move straight on to the next.

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Three ways to open a record

• Side peek: a panel on the right. The page beside it stays usable.
• Center peek: a larger window over a dimmed page. Click outside it to close.
• Full page: the record’s own page.

A view’s Open records in setting picks which one a click uses. Anywhere outside a view, such as a relation pill or a record Stella links to, a record opens in the side or center peek you used last. ⌘-click (Ctrl-click on Windows) opens the record in a new tab instead. On a phone, records always open as a full page. Peek works across table, board, grid, list, calendar, timeline, collection and checklist views, relation sections, the library, and the tasks page.

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Moving around

The bar across the top of a peek has:

• Close: the » icon in a side peek, × in a center peek. Escape closes it too.
• Previous and Next: step through the records of the list you opened it from, in the same order.
• Open in: switch between side peek, center peek and full page.
• Copy link: copies a link to the record.

Going anywhere else in the app, through the sidebar or a breadcrumb, closes the peek.

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Resizing

Drag the left edge of a side peek to make it wider or narrower. Double-click the edge to reset it. Custral remembers the width you pick.

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Setting the default for a view

1. Open the view’s Display menu (the sliders icon).
2. Under Open records in, choose Side peek, Center peek or Full page.

The choice applies to everyone using the view. You can also set it from a peek: open Open in and pick Make … the default. Pages in the sidebar have the same choice: open the page’s menu, then Open as. Pages open as a full page unless you change it.

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