Focus: Your Personal Workspace

Your space, your workflow

While Memory is shared with your team, Focus is entirely yours. It's where you manage your personal side of work — the projects you're driving, the tasks on your plate, the notes from today's meetings, and the things you're researching or learning.

Nobody else on your team sees your Focus. It's your private workspace, designed to be completely honest and completely personal.

Four areas, built around how people actually work

Focus is organized into four areas that map to what every professional does in their personal work:

Projects — What you're working on right now. Each project gets its own space where you keep everything related to it: notes, decisions, research, meeting context. A freelancer might have a space for each client. A product manager might have a space for each initiative. There are no rules — just one space per thing you're actively pushing forward.

Daily — What you do every day. This is your operational rhythm: your notes and quick captures, your task lists, your meeting notes. Things flow in here throughout the day and build up over time into a record of how you spent your time and what mattered.

Knowledge — What you've accumulated. Notes about people you work with, decisions you've made and why, references you keep coming back to. This isn't active work — it's the personal library that grows as you gain experience. When your research is done, the conclusions live here. When you make a decision, you record it here.

Research — What you're currently exploring. Investigations you're running, things you're learning, business cases you're evaluating, analysis you're doing. This is different from knowledge because it's active — you're still figuring it out. Once you're done, what's valuable moves to Knowledge.

Your daily work, organized

Here's what a typical day might look like in Focus:

You start by checking your tasks in Daily to see what's due today. During a meeting, you add a quick note to Daily notes — not because you're being disciplined, but because it's just one obvious place to put it. You do some research on a decision you need to make, and that goes into Research. When you close the day, you jot down a few lines about what you got done and what's blocking you — again, in Daily notes.

Over time, your Knowledge area fills up with things you've decided and people you've learned to work with effectively. Your Projects area fills up with the context for everything you're actively driving. You never have to wonder where something is.

Hide what you don't use

Focus comes with sensible default areas inside each of the four sections. If you don't need some of them, you can hide them. They're not deleted — just invisible until you want them back.

This means Focus can be as minimal or as detailed as your work style demands. Some people use just daily notes and tasks. Others build a rich personal knowledge base over years. Same structure, different depth.

Personal by design

Focus is intentionally private. When your team collaborates in Synap, they see Memory — the shared knowledge. Focus stays yours alone.

This means you can be completely candid. Track your real priorities. Write honest meeting notes. Keep a record of difficult decisions. Manage your actual workload without worrying about what anyone else might see.

The Dashboard pulls it all together

The content you add to Focus feeds your personal Dashboard. Your tasks with today's due dates show up automatically. Your upcoming meetings appear on your schedule. You don't set this up — it just works.

When you open Synap each morning, your Dashboard gives you an immediate answer to "what needs my attention today?" — drawn entirely from what you've added to Focus.