You can reveal a collection of four different accessory panels with a left swipe gesture in the editor. These panels contain helpful additional tools that are not directly related to editing text. Depending on your preferences, you might not use all of them.
When you’re editing a Markdown document, this panel shows an HTML preview of your current document. It is refreshed automatically when you show it.
The console shows output from Python scripts (see Scripting Editorial with Python) and can be used to enter Python commands interactively.
Even if you’re not interested in the programming part, you might find it useful as a calculator – just try entering some mathematical expressions like 12 * 4 + 5. It is also used by the Console Output workflow action.
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You can use the built-in browser for quick research, or as a helper in your workflows and scripts.
In workflows, you can invoke it with the Open URL action, and in Python scripts with the webbrowser module. You can also access the current URL, title, and text selection in the browser panel with built-in workflow variables.
The browser is also used for opening web bookmarks. It has its own set of bookmarks that are separate from the editor’s bookmarks bar, but otherwise function similarly. If your workflows use the browser feature, you might want to add a bookmark for triggering it in the browser’s bookmarks menu. Javascript bookmarklets are also supported.
