The button and windows.
Start every session from the instibrain button on your desktop. Claude then loads your spaces and your specialists.
new words
- Terminal
- The app that shows the window where you type to Claude: iTerm2 on a Mac, Windows Terminal on Windows.
- Window
- One Claude conversation on your screen.
- Session
- One conversation with Claude, from start to end.
the lesson
The installer puts two buttons on your desktop. instibrain opens the menu. Memory opens your instibrain folder.
In the menu, move with the arrow keys, or type a few letters to filter the list. Press Enter to open. Esc closes the menu.
| Menu line | What it opens |
|---|---|
| Fresh session | A new conversation |
| Resume a session | Your earlier conversations, to pick one and go on |
| Spaces folder | The folder of your spaces |
| A specialist | A window that works as that specialist |
| An operation | A window for a longer task with a goal |
Tab switches between Claude and Codex, another AI, when Codex is on your computer.
In any session, type open <name> terminal to open a new window for a specialist. It gets its own name and colour. One window, one job.
The first time on a Mac, macOS asks whether instibrain may control iTerm2. Approve it.
try it
Click the instibrain button. Choose Fresh session and press Enter. Then type this, with the name of one of your specialists in place of content:
open content terminalyou should see
- First, Claude greets you and says how many items your inbox holds.
- Then a new window opens, named after the specialist. It reads the specialist's pages, says in one line that it is ready, and waits for your task.