What is a Stax?
A Stax is a named project workspace. Not a tab group. Not a to-do list. A live container for everything needed to step back into a piece of work and immediately know what’s happening and what to do next.
What’s inside a Stax
| Component | What it is |
|---|---|
| Name | The project identity — what this work is called |
| Next Actions | The concrete step that gets you back to work without thinking |
| Priority | Must / Should / Good / Meh — where this sits in your attention right now |
| Tabs & Links | The web resources for this project (opened in one click by the TabStax extension) |
| Collaborators | Team members with @handles, roles, and colour-coded ownership |
| Agents | AI assistants connected via MCP — they read and write the same Stax |
| Breadcrumbs | A timestamped trail of what happened — so returning feels like a pause, not a restart |
A Stax is not a bookmark folder
Bookmark folders save URLs. A Stax saves intent.
The difference is the next action — the concrete step that answers “what do I do when I come back?” without having to think about it. That’s what makes reopening a Stax different from reopening a browser history page.
A bookmark says: here’s a link you saved once. A Stax says: here’s where you were, here’s what’s next, here are the tools to do it in. One is a reference. The other is a runway.
A Stax lives everywhere
The same Stax is accessible across every HeyStax surface:
- Add a next action from your terminal (
hey "review the PR") - Complete it through Claude (“mark the first action on API Migration as done”)
- Open the tabs from the TabStax extension
- Check the priority in the Dashboard
It’s all the same workspace. No copy-paste. No sync lag. No version confusion. The Stax is the source of truth, and every surface reads and writes the same one.
If someone shared a Stax with you
When someone shares a Stax, they’re not sending you a list of links. They’re giving you their working context — the same tabs, the same next actions, the same structure.
You can:
- Open the tabs they use
- See the next actions they’ve set
- Save your own copy and adapt it
Depending on the Stax and your plan, you might also see live updates when they add or change things — so you stay in sync without asking “where are we on this?”
The Flowful Re-entry
The moment of opening a cold Stax and immediately knowing what to do — that’s a Flowful Re-entry. It’s what HeyStax is built to produce. A Stax is the container that makes it possible.
Your brain doesn’t have to reboot the project. You just step back into motion.
Next steps:
- What problem HeyStax solves — the core problem and why it matters
- The HeyStax mental model — think in projects, not tools
- Creating your first Stax — step-by-step with the TabStax extension
- Surfaces — how HeyStax works across browser, terminal, AI, and dashboard