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Looking things up means moving between windows, and that breaks your flow. The pensiv browser is a panel that opens inside the project, so you can keep it next to the manuscript. Pick Go to Browser in the command palette and it comes into the window you are already looking at; split the view vertically and you get the manuscript on the left and your research on the right.

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The address bar

Type an address and it goes there. Anything that does not look like an address goes to a Google search, and a bare domain such as example.com gets https added. The three buttons on the left are Back, Forward, and Reload. While a page is loading, Reload becomes Stop loading. Click the three dots at the right end for Hard Reload, Copy Current URL, and Zoom. Zoom runs from 30% to 300% in steps of 10%. Links built to open in a new window also continue in the same panel instead of raising a popup window. App shortcuts stay live inside the panel. Cmd/Ctrl+T opens one more browser tab, Cmd/Ctrl+W closes the current tab, and Cmd/Ctrl+\ splits the view.

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Bookmarks

When Show bookmark bar is on and at least one bookmark is set to show, a bookmark row appears below the address bar. Click one to go straight there. If there is nothing to show, the row itself does not appear. Bookmarks are managed by picking Browser from the plugin list in Settings. Add Bookmark adds a row; fill in Title and URL, and drag the handle on the left to reorder. The eye icon toggles between Hide bookmark and Show bookmark. A hidden bookmark stays in the list and drops only out of the bookmark bar. When there are none yet, it reads “No bookmarks yet. Add one to get started.” Homepage at the top of the same screen is the page shown when you open a new browser tab. Leave it empty and it goes to Google. The browser is a built-in plugin, so if you do not use it you can turn it off with the switch at the top right of this screen.