Plugin panels

A panel is a piece of UI that a plugin contributes to your workspace — its own view alongside your notes, built through Altretta's documented render protocol. A task dashboard is a good example: a plugin can surface your open tasks as a live panel instead of a static note.

What panels are

Beyond adding commands and workflows, a plugin can bring its own panel into Altretta's workspace. It sits among your other views and can present information drawn from your vault — a dashboard, a summary, a specialized editor for a kind of content, and so on.

Panels render through a documented render protocol, so a plugin describes what its panel should show and Altretta draws it inside the app in a consistent, predictable way.

Panels play by the same rules

A panel doesn't get special privileges. It lives inside the same protections as the rest of the plugin:

• It runs in the sandbox — no unfettered access to your filesystem, network, or system.
• It's permission-scoped — if the panel needs to read your note contents to display them, the plugin must have requested that permission, and you must have granted it.
• It renders through the documented protocol, rather than injecting arbitrary code into the app.

Using a panel

Once a plugin that provides a panel is installed and enabled, its panel becomes available in your workspace. You open, arrange, and close it like Altretta's built-in views. Disabling the plugin removes its panel; re-enabling it brings the panel back.

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