Documents

Space drawings are ordinary files. You choose where they live, including iCloud Drive, and they open from the Files app or Finder like any other document.

The welcome screen

The welcome screen opens when Space launches, and when you close a drawing.

• New Drawing starts an empty drawing.
• Browse... opens a drawing from Files, iCloud Drive, or anywhere else.
• Recent shows the drawings opened most recently on this device. Drawings shows only drawings, without notes from Field Notes on iPhone.
• Help Center has the manual, beginner videos, and a way to reach us.

Saving

A drawing you opened from a file is saved back to that file as you work. A new drawing has no file yet. When you close it, Space asks whether to save it and where.

File types

New drawings are saved as .space files.

If you're curious, internally space files are just a folder of any image assets and a cleartext json format if you'd like to create your own exporter or do something with it. If you do, we would LOVE to hear about what you're up to and feature it

Notes from Field Notes are .space files too. With iCloud Drive on, they live in Space › Field Notes and open here like any drawing, photos and scale included.