---
title: From anywhere
description: Start work from any app with a global shortcut, and window manager rules for its panel.
url: https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/start-work/from-anywhere
---

# From anywhere
`⌃⌥Space` opens Start work in a floating panel over whatever app is in front. It takes the keyboard without bringing
Heed forward; `⎋ ⎋` or a click anywhere else closes it, and `⌘↩` starts the session.
![The Start work panel floating over another app](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/images/shots/start-work/panel.png)
Change the shortcut, or turn it off with `""`:
```toml
[keys]
global_start_work = "<C-M-Space>"
```

It needs no Accessibility permission. If another app owns the combination, the status bar says so.

## Tiling window managers

The panel's window title is always `Heed Start Work` (app `net.nullean.heed`), so a tiling window manager can leave it
floating:
```toml
# OmniWM: ~/.config/omniwm/settings.toml (id is any UUID)
[[appRules]]
bundleId = "net.nullean.heed"
id = "75CF2DF1-FF34-4187-9CC9-01DD190EFC51"
layout = "float"
titleRegex = "^Heed Start Work$"
```

```sh
# yabai
yabai -m rule --add app="^Heed$" title="^Heed Start Work$" manage=off
```

Without a rule it still works: if a window manager takes focus the moment the panel opens, the panel takes it back.