Using Plugins

Plugins are easy to access and use. Here's everything you need to know about navigating and interacting with them.

Finding Plugins in the Sidebar

When you hover over the sidebar, you'll see two sections:

1. Navigation — Your core Synap areas: Dashboard, Mind, Canvas, and Graph.
2. Plugins — All installed plugins, listed below the core navigation.

Each plugin shows an icon and its name. Click any plugin to open it.

Collapsing the Plugin Section

If you have many plugins installed, the sidebar can get long. You can collapse the plugin section:

• Click the Plugins header (with the small arrow) to collapse or expand the list.
• When collapsed, only the header is visible — your plugins are hidden but still accessible with one click.
• Synap remembers whether you collapsed or expanded the section, so it stays the way you left it.

If you have more plugins than fit on screen, the plugin section scrolls independently — your core navigation and the bottom of the sidebar always stay visible.

Navigating Between Plugins

• Click a plugin in the sidebar to open it. The main content area switches to show the plugin's view.
• Use browser-style navigation. Back and forward buttons (or keyboard shortcuts) work between plugins and core views.
• Switch freely. You can go from a plugin to Dashboard, then to Mind, then back to the plugin — everything works as you'd expect.

Plugin Data

Plugins can store and read data from your mind:

• Bookmarks saves your links in a file inside the plugin's folder.
• Pomodoro Timer saves its state (current time, session count) so it persists when you navigate away.
• Business Dashboard reads KPI data from your mind's dashboard folder.
• Campaign Manager reads from Canvas boards.

All plugin data lives in your mind. It's part of your data — not stored on external servers.

Restarting to Load New Plugins

When you add a new plugin through Claude Code, you'll need to restart Synap for it to appear in the sidebar. Plugins are discovered when the app starts up — it only takes a moment.

In a future update, Synap will detect new plugins automatically without requiring a restart.