# The Desks in Tsukue
Tsukue uses several desks. Each desk has a clear purpose. For beta testers, the main thing to know is this: you move between desks depending on whether you are writing, revising, structuring, or reviewing your progress.
## Main Desk
The Main Desk is the writing desk.
This is where you write current text, work on the active page, and move through the active stack. If you are in the middle of a scene or chapter, this is usually where you should be.
In short: Main Desk = writing.
## Editor Desk
The Editor Desk is for revision and analysis.
Here you can look at text more calmly, check readability, review style issues, and work with Lektor feedback. The Editor Desk is the right place once a section already exists and you want to improve it.
Snapshots are important here as well. A snapshot saves a state of the text so you can secure it before bigger changes, compare versions later, or go back if needed.
Also important for testing: if the editor flags a word as a spelling issue even though it is intentionally part of your book, you can add it directly as an internal book term. This is especially useful for names, places, or invented words.
In short: Editor Desk = revising.
## Pinboard Desk
The Pinboard Desk is for overview and structure.
There are two important parts here:
- the free idea board for cards, connections, and loose thoughts
- the Manuscript Board for viewing the manuscript as a card-based structure
In the Manuscript Board, you can also manage names and lexicon entries. These are internal book terms you want to track deliberately. When you click a name or a term, the stacks that contain it are highlighted. This makes it easy to see where a character or concept appears in the manuscript.
This works well together with the Editor Desk. If you accept a term there as valid for your book, it can later be tracked here as part of the project structure.
In short: Pinboard Desk = structuring and overview.
## Journal Desk
The Journal Desk is for your writing process.
Here you can see things like:
- words written today
- writing time
- completed pages
- calendar activity
This is not a desk for working on the text itself. It is for reviewing your progress and staying oriented.
In short: Journal Desk = progress and review.
## The simplest workflow
The easiest way to understand Tsukue is this:
1. In the Main Desk, you write.
2. In the Editor Desk, you revise.
3. In the Pinboard Desk, you organize structure, names, and terms.
4. In the Journal Desk, you look at your writing process.