The Workspace is where the magic happens. It's the main page you see after logging in, and it's designed for one thing: making redaction fast and intuitive.

The Workspace is split into two sides:

Left Panel: Input This is where you paste or type sensitive text. It's a large text editor with syntax highlighting that shows detected patterns in real-time.

Right Panel: Detections As you type, detections appear here. Each finding shows:

• The detected value (highlighted)
• Its category (PII, credentials, financial, etc.)
• The action buttons (Whitelist, Ignore, Custom Placeholder)

Click into the left panel and paste your sensitive document. You'll see detections light up within a second.

The right panel shows everything found. Click any detection to jump to it in the text. The detection will pulse to show you exactly where it is.

• Whitelist: Mark safe patterns you never want redacted (like "[email protected]")
• Ignore: Skip this specific instance without whitelisting
• Custom Name: Replace with a specific placeholder name instead of the auto-generated one

Once you're happy, click "Copy Redacted" to get the clean text on your clipboard. Or click "Export" for file options.

At the top, you'll see a mode selector:

Strict Mode (default) High confidence detections only. Fewer false positives, but might miss some edge cases.

Balanced Mode Recommended for most use cases. Good balance of recall and precision.

Aggressive Mode Catches everything remotely suspicious. Use when you absolutely can't miss anything, but expect more false positives to review.

As you type, the Workspace highlights sensitive patterns:

• Red: High-severity (credentials, SSN, credit cards)
• Yellow: Medium-severity (emails, phones, addresses)
• Blue: Low-severity (names, generic IDs)

This color coding helps you quickly assess risk.

Don't want to paste? Click the "Upload File" button to process:

• PDFs
• Word documents (.docx)
• Excel spreadsheets (.xlsx)
• Text files (.txt, .log, .json)

The Workspace will extract text and run detection automatically.

Power users love shortcuts:

• Cmd/Ctrl + V: Paste (obviously)
• Cmd/Ctrl + C: Copy redacted output
• Cmd/Ctrl + Z: Undo last action
• Cmd/Ctrl + Shift + F: Focus search in detections
• Esc: Clear all input

Click the "Redaction Map" tab on the right to see the mapping between redacted items and original values. This is useful for:

• Verifying what was replaced
• Exporting the map for later restoration
• Understanding the redaction before sharing