Extensions

Most things in Vexlynk are cards sitting on the workspace. An extension is different: a full working surface that opens in its own window over the workspace.

The reason is space. You can write a note on a card. You cannot comfortably edit a video, or a 2,000-word document, in a rectangle on a canvas — those need room, their own toolbars, and their own idea of what a cursor does.

The four

Extension	For	Available
Documents	Writing and editing rich text	Desktop + Web
Code Editor	HTML, CSS, JS, TS, JSON, Markdown	Desktop + Web
In-App Browser	Browsing without leaving Vexlynk	Desktop only
Video Editor	Timeline video editing	Desktop only

Opening one

Two ways in, and which one you use depends on whether you already have something to work on.

From the rail — open Extensions and pick one. This starts empty.

By double-clicking a card — a document card double-clicked opens straight into the right editor with that document loaded. This is the usual route, because you normally want to edit something rather than open an editor.

The window

An extension opens in a window over your workspace, with the controls you would expect.

Minimize puts it away without closing it. Minimized extensions collect in a taskbar so you can bring one back — useful when you are moving between a document and the workspace repeatedly.

Maximize and Full screen give it the whole display for concentrated work.

Back to canvas returns you to the workspace, leaving the extension open behind it.

Close ends the session. Your work is already saved by then — see below.

Saving

Extensions save your work into the card it came from, so closing the window is not a risky act.

One case behaves differently: a file opened from your own computer through the Files panel is read-only. Vexlynk will not silently write to a file living in your folders. Edit it and you get Save a copy, which writes a new document into Vexlynk and leaves your original untouched.

That is deliberate. A tool that edits your filesystem in the background is a tool you cannot fully trust with a folder.

Why two are desktop only

The In-App Browser and the Video Editor need capabilities a web page does not have — a real browser engine in one case, local file and video processing in the other.

Open either in the web companion and Vexlynk tells you plainly: “Available on the desktop app.” You get a clear message rather than a panel that loads and then fails. See Desktop vs Web.

Next

• Documents — the one most people use first
• Files — where read-only files come from