Desktops, Groups & Bookmarks

Anchor has a simple hierarchy. Desktops contain columns. Columns contain groups and widgets. Groups contain your bookmarks. That's the whole model.

Desktops: one space per context

A desktop is a full-page workspace with its own layout, links, and theme. Most people make one per mode of their life:

  • Work: your tools, dashboards, and docs
  • Personal: banking, shopping, streaming
  • Side project: everything for that thing you're building

Switching desktops takes one click from the toolbar, so you only ever see the links that matter right now.

Tip: When creating a desktop, you can start from a template (Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, a minimal Basic layout) or pick Import Your Own to bring in your existing bookmarks.

Columns and layout

Each desktop is divided into vertical columns. Drag groups and widgets between them until the layout fits your screen and your priorities. Put your daily drivers top-left. That's where your eyes go first.

A group is a named collection of bookmarks, like Dev Tools, Recipes, or Reading List. Each group can display two ways:

  • Grid shows icon tiles, good for visual recognition of your most-used sites. You choose how many columns the grid uses.
  • List shows compact text rows, better for long reference collections.

Bookmarks

Each bookmark has a name, a URL, and an icon. Icons come from the site's favicon automatically, or you can pick one from the built-in icon library or point at your own image URL.

Adding one:

  1. Click the add button in any group
  2. Paste the URL. The name and icon fill in on their own.
  3. Adjust if you want, then save

Faster: with the browser extension, press Ctrl+Shift+S (Cmd+Shift+S on Mac) on any page to save it straight to a desktop and group of your choice.

Themes

Make each desktop look the way you want. There are 13 built-in themes, from clean Light and Dark to Nord, Dracula, Solarized, OLED, Matrix, and Vaporwave. Or build a custom one: pick your own primary, secondary, and accent colors, text color, and font.

Each desktop also has a setting for whether bookmarks open in a new tab. It lives in the desktop settings.

Finding things fast

The toolbar's search is for your bookmarks: press / anywhere on your desktop, start typing, and jump straight to the link you're after. It's also the quickest place to add a new bookmark.

For everything at once, open the command palette with Cmd-K (Ctrl-K on Windows and Linux). It searches across all your desktops — not just the one you're on — so you can fuzzy-find any bookmark, jump to another desktop or group, or run a command like adding a bookmark, importing, or exporting your data. Use the arrow keys to move, Enter to go, and Esc to close. If your browser grabs Cmd/Ctrl-K, Alt-K opens it too.