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title: Customizing the Workspace
slug: nexus/customizing-the-workspace
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createdAt: 2024-09-12T17:44:07.799Z
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DT Nexus offers a flexible workspace to improve your workflow. Customizing this workspace allows you to adjust the environment to better suit your needs, ultimately boosting your productivity.

Here’s how to customize it effectively:

## Workspace Structure

The DT Nexus workspace is organized into four fixed tabs located across the top of the interface:

- **Calibrate**
- **Capture**
- **Crop**
- **Export**

The order of these tabs reflects the steps in a standard digitization workflow, ensuring a logical progression from initial preparation to final output. These tabs are non-rearrangeable and serve as the primary sections for accessing various tool widgets.

Default keyboard shortcuts of `⌘ + ⌥ + 1` to `⌘ + ⌥ + 4` can be used to switch tabs. This mirrors the shortcuts used in Capture One to swtich tabs within that software.

## Customizing Tool Widgets

Within each tab, you will find several tool widgets designed to assist with specific tasks. You can customize these widgets to better suit your workflow.

### Expanding and Collapsing Widgets

- Each widget has dual arrows in the upper left corner.
- Click these arrows to expand or collapse the widget, allowing you to manage the workspace more efficiently.
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### Rearranging Widgets

- To rearrange widgets within a tab, click and drag the widget to your desired position.
- Drop it in the new location to reposition it within the same tab.

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### Detaching Widgets

- Widgets can be dragged out of the main DT Nexus window.
- When dragged out, they become free-floating windows that can be positioned anywhere on your screen, allowing for greater flexibility and multi-monitor setups.

### Reattaching Widgets

- Detached widgets can be reattached by dragging them back into the main DT Nexus window.
- Position them within the desired tab to integrate them back into the main workspace.

### Companion App Window Mode

DT Nexus is commonly used alongside Capture One. At the time it opens DT Nexus will arrange itself and Capture One side-by-side. At any time you can double click the top bar of DT Nexus or click the green + icon in the top left to trigger this behavior. This is called the Companion App Window Mode.

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### Background

If you wish to eliminate distractions from behind the open windows you are working with, we suggest the free app [Backdrop](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/backdrop/id411461952?mt=12) which can put up a solid gray (or other colored) backdrop.