Using ReticulOS
Reticulum
Reticulum is the full-featured workspace for browsing, organizing, and editing your collections. The widget captures; Reticulum is where you live with what you captured.
Opening Reticulum
- From the widget: gear icon (⚙) → Open Reticulum
- From the tray: right-click → Open Reticulum
- From a terminal or launcher:
reticulos-linux --reticulum
Unlike the widget, Reticulum is a normal window — not always-on-top — with its own remembered size and position. It shares the widget's theme and active collection, and both stay in sync live: capture something in the widget and it appears in Reticulum the moment you focus it.
Layout
- Sidebar rail (left) — navigation. Click the
«button at the bottom to collapse it to icons only; the state persists. - Titlebar — drag to move, double-click to maximize, with standard minimize / maximize / close controls.
- Collection strip — your collections as chips, plus the new-collection button, search box, view switcher, cell count, and delete button.
- The stage — the quick-add bar and your cells, laid out in the active view mode.
Collections
| Control | What it does |
|---|---|
| Click a chip | Switch to that collection |
＋ button | Create a new collection and switch to it |
| Trash button (far right) | Delete the current collection and everything in it — confirmation required; hidden on Home |
View modes
Each collection has its own view mode, selected with the switcher in the strip. Your choice is remembered per collection — your snippets can live in a grid while your moodboard lives on a canvas.
| Mode | Description |
|---|---|
| Grid | Masonry card layout — cards tile into columns of varying height, like a pinboard |
| List | The same cards in a single, wider column — best for reading |
| Canvas | A freeform 2-D board — drag cards anywhere; positions are saved automatically |
Cell cards
Every captured item appears as a card showing:
- Title (if set) — click to edit inline, or click + title to add one
- Content — text (truncated when long), a clickable link, an image, or rendered rich text
- Type badge and creation date — bottom-left
- Actions — bottom-right
| Badge | Meaning |
|---|---|
TEXT | Plain text |
RICH | Rich text with Markdown formatting (edited in the cell editor) |
LINK | URL — click to open in your browser |
IMG | Image |
Card actions
| Button | Action |
|---|---|
| Drop (🎨) | Open the color palette |
| Copy | Copy the cell's content to the clipboard |
| Link | Open the URL in your browser — link cells only |
| Pin | Move to the Pinned shelf; click again to unpin |
| Trash | Delete the cell |
Card colors
Each card can be tinted one of eight named colors, or left neutral. Click the drop button on any card to open the palette; click the neutral swatch (first) to remove a color.
| Color | Tint |
|---|---|
| rose | Warm red |
| amber | Warm orange |
| moss | Muted green |
| teal | Cool cyan-green |
| blue | Cool blue |
| violet | Purple |
| sand | Warm tan |
| graphite | Neutral grey |
Pinned shelf
Pinned cells gather in their own Pinned section above everything else, in grid and list views. Any cell type can be pinned.
Search
The search box filters the current collection in real time, matching against both titles and content. The cell count in the strip shows how many match. Press Esc to clear the filter.
The canvas
In Canvas mode each card is freely positionable on a large board:
- Drag any card by its body (not a button or link) to reposition it. A 5 px threshold prevents accidental moves when clicking.
- Positions persist automatically when you release a card.
- Cards that haven't been placed yet are arranged in a tidy grid until you move them.
Resizing cards
Hover any card edge or corner to reveal resize handles — all eight directions work. Sizes persist and apply across views; on the canvas, resizing from the top or left edge keeps the card visually anchored in place.
Quick-add and global paste
Reticulum has two fast capture paths of its own — the quick-add bar at the top of the stage, and a global Ctrl+V that turns whatever is on your clipboard into a cell. Both are covered in Capturing Content.