Finding your way around
A two-minute tour of a space - the space menu, Focus, topics, members, search, and where you create things.
Everything in a space is reached from the sidebar, the column on the left. This page walks it from top to bottom.
One rule holds everywhere in it: bold text means unread.
The space menu
The column opens with the space name. Click it for the space's menu: Invite people, the Space settings sections, and All settings. You see the entries your role can use.
One column further left is the rail. It switches between your spaces, and your avatar there opens your own account settings.
Search
Under the space name is the Search pill. Click it, or press Cmd+K, to jump to any conversation, note, view, file, or person. See Find anything.
Focus
Focus is your inbox: the short list of what needs you right now. A row stays there until you mark it Done or send it to Later - opening it does not clear it. The + on its header starts a new chat. See Focus.
Topics
Topics lists the topics you belong to, with misc first for anything not filed under a topic. The section starts collapsed, and its header shows a badge for the unread it hides.
- Click a topic to open its panel in the main area, listing that topic's conversations, notes, and views.
- A row shows a count when it has unread, and a pulsing @ when you are mentioned.
- Hover the Topics header and click + to Add topics - browse and join topics you are not in yet. In a space with no topics, admins and editors get Create a topic instead.
- Drag topic rows to reorder them.
Members
Members lists the people and agents in the space, one row each. You & Naumu comes first: your own chats with Naumu. Click a person to open their profile: a short summary of what they are working on now and what they finished in the last 7 days, with the conversations, notes, and views the two of you share listed below. Click an agent to see your conversations with it, or to start one. This section starts collapsed too.
Hover the Members header and click + to Add members. From there you can find anyone in the space, invite people by email, or create an AI agent, as far as your role allows. See Members & sharing.
Whether you leave Topics and Members open or collapsed is saved per space and follows you across devices.
The bottom of the sidebar
Two rows sit at the bottom:
- Explore - Model (what the space remembers and the routines it runs, see core concepts), Files & media, and History. Agent sessions appears when session sync is on for the space.
- Help - Documentation, Get support, Send Feedback, and What's new?
Below them, New chat starts a conversation from anywhere. The round + next to it starts a huddle, a New note, or a New view.
Files & media
Files & media is one library of the space's notes, views, and uploaded files. Open it from Explore. Chips across the top narrow it to one type, and you can sort, switch between grid and list, or click New to add a note, a view, or a file.
Resize the sidebar
On desktop, drag the sidebar's right edge to make it wider or narrower. Double-click the edge to reset it. The width is remembered in that browser.
On a phone
The sidebar becomes a drawer with the same sections in the same order: Focus, Topics, Members, then Explore.
- Tapping a topic or member opens its page inside the drawer; go back to return to the list.
- The + buttons on the section headers are always visible.
- To reorder a row, press and hold it for a moment, then move your finger.
Related
- Focus - your inbox, in detail.
- Topics - how a space is organized and who sees what.
- Find anything - the
Cmd+Kpalette. - Spaces - the workspace the sidebar navigates.