Panels

Panels

Panels are virtual-desktop workspaces for your tabs. Instead of one flat row of tabs, you can group them into separate panels and switch between them — so you can set a pile of requests aside without having to decide right now whether to save or discard each one, and keep the tabs you're actively working on uncluttered.

Only the active panel's tabs show in the tab bar at a time, exactly like the multiple desktops your OS gives you. Everything — every panel, its tabs (including unsaved/dirty ones), names, order, and which tab was active in each — is saved locally and restored exactly when you reopen Getman.

The panel selector

The panel selector sits at the left of the tab bar, showing the active panel's name with a dropdown arrow. Open it to:

• Switch panels — click a panel in the list; the tab bar swaps to that panel's tabs and restores the tab you last had active there.
• Reorder panels — drag the rows in the list.
• Rename a panel — click the pencil on a row, or double-click the selector name. Submitting an empty name resets it to the default Panel N.
• Add a panel — click + New panel. A new panel starts empty (no tabs); it shows the NO OPEN TABS placeholder until you add a request (Ctrl/Cmd + N, the +, or the NEW REQUEST button).
• Close a panel — click the × on a row (hidden when only one panel is left — there's always at least one panel). See Closing a panel.

On narrow/compact screens (see Responsive layouts) there's no horizontal tab bar — the panels live at the top of the tab switcher bottom-sheet instead (the chip that shows e.g. Panel 2 · 2/5). Tap a panel chip to switch, the pencil to rename, or + New panel to add one.

Moving a tab to another panel

Two ways, whichever you reach for:

• Right-click a tab (desktop) → MOVE TO PANEL → pick another panel, or NEW PANEL… to move it into a brand-new panel containing only that tab.
• Drag a tab onto the panel selector (long-press a tab to start the drag, then drop it on the selector) and choose the destination panel.

On compact screens, use the MOVE TO PANEL action on a tab row in the switcher sheet.

Moving a tab leaves you on your current panel — the tab just quietly relocates. If you move (or close) a panel's last tab, the panel becomes empty and shows the NO OPEN TABS placeholder — it is not refilled with a blank tab.

Closing a panel

Closing a panel closes all of its tabs at once. What happens depends on whether any of them have unsaved changes (a dirty marker):

• No unsaved tabs → a confirmation: Close "<name>" and its N tabs? → CLOSE.
• One or more unsaved tabs → a summary (<NAME> HAS N UNSAVED TABS) with three choices:
  • DISCARD ALL & CLOSE — close everything, saving nothing.
  • REVIEW & SAVE… — walk the unsaved tabs one at a time. For each: Save changes to '<tab>'? → SAVE, DISCARD, or CANCEL REVIEW.
    • SAVE updates the tab's linked collection request, or — if the tab isn't linked yet — opens SAVE TO COLLECTION to name it and pick a place. (Cancelling that name prompt aborts the close, so nothing is lost.)
    • DISCARD skips that tab.
    • CANCEL REVIEW stops the whole thing — the panel stays open, untouched.
  • CANCEL — keep the panel.

Keyboard shortcuts

On macOS the modifier is Cmd; on Windows/Linux it's Ctrl.

Action	Shortcut
New panel	Cmd/Ctrl + Shift + N
Next panel	Cmd/Ctrl + Shift + ]
Previous panel	Cmd/Ctrl + Shift + [
Jump to panel 1–9	Cmd/Ctrl + Shift + 1 … Cmd/Ctrl + Shift + 9

Next/previous wrap around the ends; jump-to-N is a no-op if there aren't that many panels. See Keyboard Shortcuts for the full list.

Notes

• There is always at least one panel, but a panel can be empty (zero tabs) — it then shows the NO OPEN TABS placeholder.
• Panels organize tabs within Getman — they aren't part of Postman import/export or the git workspace mirror, which work at the collections level.
• A request started in one panel keeps running even if you switch away — its response lands in its own tab when it returns.

See also: The Interface · Collections · Keyboard Shortcuts