User Area
User Area is your personal workspace inside Patcher.
It brings your saved modules, racks, patches, manuals, comments, stats, and profile controls together on one signed-in surface.
User Area is only available to signed-in users.
User Area — your signed-in workspace, with search that spans every section at once.
What is in User Area
The layout is built around a few practical sections:
Modules you have added to your collection
Racks you are planning or maintaining
Patches you are documenting
Manuals gathered from your saved modules
Comments you have left around the platform
Stats — profile stats and contributor stats side by side
Profile visibility controls
a floating global search field for workspace-wide filtering
The sections are paginated when they grow large, so you can move through bigger workspaces without one long scroll.
Why it matters
This is where Patcher shifts from public catalogue to working tool.
As your workspace grows, User Area becomes the fastest way to:
find your own data again
see what is missing
jump back into an unfinished idea
open manuals without leaving the app
Global search
The search field is not tied to a single section, but it is not one combined result list either.
Instead, the same query is applied across the main sections at the same time:
Modules search name, manufacturer, description, and tags
Racks search name and description
Patches search name, description, and tags
Manuals search module name, manufacturer, and description
Comments search comment text and author usernames
The Patches section also has its own tag filter, which works alongside the main search field.
Stats
The Stats section surfaces two views side by side:
Profile stats — public-facing counts about your workspace (racks, patches, and other publishable material).
Contributor stats — signals about the contributions you have made back to the shared catalogue.
Stats update as you save and share more work.
Manuals
Every manual attached to a module in your Collection surfaces automatically in the Manuals section, so a growing library gathers into one searchable list instead of scattered PDF links.
See Manuals for how manuals appear on module detail pages and here in your workspace.
Comments
Any comment you have left around Patcher lives in the Comments section of your User Area. It is your history of participation — useful when you want to reread a conversation, follow up on a thread, or find where you have already answered a question.
Comment visibility follows the surface where each comment was left; nothing here is more or less public than it was on the page it lives on.
Profile visibility
User Area is where you control whether your public profile is visible.
From here you can:
make your profile public or private
open your public profile
copy your public profile link
update your display name
For public discovery, both the profile and the individual rack or patch need to be public. See Public Profiles and Account and Privacy.
A good first setup
Add the modules you own.
Create one rack.
Create one patch.
Check that your profile settings match what you actually want public.
That is usually enough to make the workspace start paying off.
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