As well as finding things, the search panel can run actions: editor commands offered as results. One of the handiest is creating a tab: when you are inside a plan and your query looks like you want a new tab, search offers a Create New Tab result.
When it appears
The action surfaces when your query matches its name or keywords, for example typing tab, new, create, add, page, sheet or board. It only shows inside a plan you can edit, where there is something to add a tab to: never from the Explorer page, and never for a Viewer or Participant.
Create New Tab is an ordinary editor command, listed in the Actions group of the results. That group sits below the plans and tabs that match, so an actual match still wins the default Enter, and you arrow down to the command to choose it deliberately. When nothing else matches, it is the first result and Enter runs it straight away.
What it does
Picking Create New Tab does exactly what the + button at the end of the tab bar does:
- It adds a new tab named "Tab" plus one more than the number of tabs (Tab 3, Tab 4, ...) at the end of the tab bar, and switches to it.
- The new tab takes the current tab's look, so it matches the rest of the plan.
- It opens on Start Planning, where you pick a Board, Sheet, Dashboard or Form for it, from a template or blank. See Planning Basics.
From there it is an ordinary tab: rename it, or fold it into a folder. Changed your mind? Delete the tab from its tab menu.
Think of search actions as shortcuts for "I know what I want to do". The panel doubles as a command palette: alongside creating a tab, it can run many other editor actions, from renaming the tab to sharing the plan, all matched the same way.
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