Workspace access with JavaScript.

Can you clarify your question? I'll try to give an overview below, but if that doesn't answer your questions let me know and I'll do my best to assist.

Ctrl-Shift-J I believe brings up the browser developer tool window in Chrome, and possibly other browsers. This is something that you can view on any webpage - Treehouse or otherwise. It's useful for testing things out or monitoring for errors.

The element function you mentioned is probably the right-click select view element action? This is really just a shortcut to a specific tab of the developer tools window above.

Your workspace projects should all be saved on the workspace page of Treehouse. Workspaces is Treehouse's in-browser text editor tool. So in that sense, it is only accessible through Treehouse. If you're interested in downloading your projects so that you can use your own local editor - such as Coda or Sublime Text - you can do that too.

1. Open the Workspace project you'd like to download. You can find a list of workspaces here.
2. Click File > Download Workspace
3. Alternatively, you can typically download all the course files under the Downloads tab on the first video in a course.

Hopefully that helps, but let me know if anything is still confusing. Good luck, and happy coding!

Update: 10-8-20

From the workspaces page you can create new projects from scratch by clicking the New + button towards the top right. This will give you options to create environments for a variety of languages and projects, and will give you an empty blank project to start from scratch in.

If you want to work on projects locally on your own computer, you have a ton of options available to you. I personally use the Coda editor, which is OS X (Mac) exclusive. If you're working on a windows machine, Sublime Text is a popular editor.

For a free option on Windows, I've heard decent things about Notepad++. The free Atom editor also seems fairly popular with good support and works across platforms (Windows, Mac, Linux).

VIM and Emacs are both powerful free tools, but I'm not sure I would recommend them to a beginner. I would say they require a lot more technical comfort than any of the above suggestions.

If you want to work online in the browser but you don't like workspaces, you could try CodePen as an online alternative.