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The space menu

The column opens with the space name. Click it for the menu the space is administered from: Invite people, each Space settings section your role can reach, and All settings, which opens settings on the space's own page. The space's icon and color sit one column further left, on the rail that switches between your spaces.

Visitors reading a public space get the name without the menu - every entry in it acts on a membership they don't hold.

Below the name is a Search pill. Click it (or press Cmd+K) to open the command palette, which jumps you to any thread, note, node, view, file, or person in the space.

Activity

The Activity row sits under the search pill, marked with a bell. It is the space's single catch-up feed - one row that gathers everything waiting for you, so you can clear a backlog without walking through topics one at a time.

Opening it gives you a panel with three tabs:

• All - everything in the space that concerns you: threads shared space-wide, threads in your topics, and threads in open topics that have reached you, read or not.
• Unread - just what you haven't read yet, with the count on the tab. Rows you open stay in place (marked read) until you leave the tab, so the list never reshuffles under you while you catch up.
• Participating - just the conversations you're in, newest first, including your solo chats with Naumu. The count on the tab is the unread among them.

While anything is unread, All and Unread are led by a Clear all unread button that marks the lot as read in one go. The tab you pick is the list you get - nothing is filtered on your behalf. The row remembers which tab you left it on, per space, and reopens there next time.

The All tab carries a compact filter strip of its own: Topic, Participants, Started by, API (threads started through the MCP server or the API), and Naumu (threads an AI took part in), plus a Clear button once anything is set. Filters combine - any-of within one filter, all-of across them - and each space remembers its own selection.

To skip the list entirely, hover the row and click the arrow that appears - it opens the most recent unread conversation directly. Cmd+U does the same from the keyboard, and because each opened thread is marked read, pressing it repeatedly walks you through your unreads one by one. Right-click the row for Clear unread without opening the panel at all.

The row badges like a topic row does: a count normally, and a pulsing @ badge when anything in that backlog mentions you. Only messages from other people count - your own messages never mark a thread unread for you. Edits people make by hand in the app - a status flipped in the details panel, a card dragged between kanban columns - never show up as unread either; the node's History keeps that record.

Throughout the sidebar, bold text means unread - never "currently open". A selected row is marked by its fill instead, so opening an unread conversation visibly turns it from bold to normal.

Focus

Focus is the short list of what needs you right now. It sits under Activity and is personal: nobody else sees yours.

Rows arrive two ways.

• On their own. A new message in a conversation you're in, a mention of you, and a fired reminder all pull the row into Focus.
• By hand. Add to Focus on any thread, note, or view - from its row's context menu (right-click, or the ⋯ button), from the pane's action bar, or from the row menu in the sidebar - keeps it there until you clear it. Remove from Focus takes it back out. Hand-added rows sit at the top and wear a pin where the timestamp would be.

Focus is one list you can drag to reorder: hand-added (pinned) rows on top, the rest (active) below. While you drag, Pinned and Active labels open up so you can see where the row will land:

• Within a group, dragging just reorders. The order is saved to your account, so it follows you across devices. A row with newer activity than when you placed it still jumps to the top of the active rows.
• Up into Pinned, the row is pinned at that spot, the same as Add to Focus.
• Down into Active, a pinned row is unpinned but stays listed as an ordinary row, until you mark it Done or send it to Later.

The thread, note, or view you have open shows as a last row even when it is not in Focus, and leaves when you navigate away. Drag it up to keep it in Focus.

The toggle always reflects what the section shows: an item that arrived on its own reads Remove from Focus too, and removing it there is the same as marking it Done below, Undo toast included.

Opening a row does not clear it. Only two actions do, and both sit on the row - they appear on hover on desktop; on a phone every row carries a check in place of its timestamp, where a tap is Done and a long-press on the check opens the Later picker, and the row's long-press menu lists both as well:

• Done settles the row and it leaves the list. Any later message in that conversation brings it back.
• Later parks it until a time you pick - the same quick presets as Remind me on a message, plus Custom. Parked rows collapse into a Later (N) sub-list at the bottom of the section; the X on one brings it back right away. When its time comes, a conversation returns to Focus with its bell, and a note or view reappears where it was.

Both actions raise an Undo toast. The section header carries two buttons of its own: a + that starts a new conversation, and a ⋯ menu holding Later all… and Done all, the same two actions applied to the whole list. One Undo toast restores the whole batch, and the menu disappears when there is nothing listed while the + stays. They appear on hover on desktop; on a phone they stay visible at thumb size and the menu opens as a bottom sheet.

Some things deliberately never pull themselves in: a thread you don't take part in, aren't mentioned in, and don't own stays out when it is only shared space-wide (the misc commons) or when you reach it only through topics you've muted. A thread written only by software - agents, the API - and filed only in topics set to notify on people only stays out for everyone, owner included, until a person types in it or you are tagged. Adding the row by hand overrides all of that - you asked for it.

Focus starts empty and fills from what happens after you first open it, so it never opens on a wall of history. Everything older is one click up, in Activity. When there is nothing to do, the section reads Nothing needs you.

If you lose access to something you added by hand (for example, a topic you were removed from), the row doesn't leak its contents. It collapses to a masked placeholder with only a remove action, so you can clear it out.

Topics

Under Focus sits the Topics section, headed by a #. It ships collapsed, so the header carries a rollup badge standing in for the row badges it hides; open or close it and your choice is saved to your account, per space, across devices. Inside, each topic you belong to has its own row:

• misc is always first - the catch-all for anything shared with the space but not filed under a named topic. It carries no #, because it isn't a topic: it's the space's remainder. Its pane is a single chronological stream, and the row itself stays quiet - no unread count, no dot - so your attention stays on the people and topics that address you directly. Items in misc are still marked as new since your last visit inside the pane, and its Unread tab and Clear unread button work there like anywhere else - the row is quiet, not empty.
• Every topic row is prefixed with a #. A lock replaces the # on a closed topic, and a globe marks a topic with public web access on.
• Unread topics show a count badge. When one of those unread threads @mentions you, the topic shows a pulsing @ badge in place of the count, so the thing addressed to you stands out from ordinary traffic.
• A muted topic shows a crossed-out bell instead of any badge, and its row never goes bold. See Topics for what muting does.
• A topic set to notify on people only shows a dim bell with a minus sign when it has nothing to badge. Threads in it that only software has written to never count toward its badge; see Topics for the setting.

Clicking a topic opens its extension pane - a second, resizable sidebar column that lists that topic's threads, notes, and views without navigating away from what's open in the main panel, split under per-day dividers (Today, Yesterday, then weekday or date). The pane has two tabs: All, and Unread carrying the same count as the topic's row. While the topic has unread, both tabs are led by a Clear unread button that marks just that pane's items read - the same one-click catch-up the Activity panel offers, scoped to what you are looking at - and on the Unread tab rows you open stay in place until you switch tabs. Your tab choice is remembered per space, so once you switch to Unread every topic you open next lands there too. Misc, member, and You & Naumu panes get the same tabs. The pane has its own header (privacy, members, search, and a New chat button) and its width persists. Click an item to open it in the main panel; close the pane with its X, by clicking the active topic again, or with Escape.

Drag a topic row to reorder the topics under the header; the order is saved to your account and stays the same on every device.

Below your topics, an open topic you've been pulled into - because one of its threads reached you - appears as a dimmed preview row you haven't joined. Hover it to Join topic, or Hide it from the row's menu if you'd rather not see it; hiding is undoable from the toast. A hidden preview comes back only when you're deliberately pulled in again - by joining the topic, by being added to one of its threads, or by being @-mentioned in one.

A quieter Add topics row lets you discover and join topics you're not in yet. In a space with no topics yet, admins and editors get Create a topic there instead, which opens the new-topic dialog directly. To learn how topics gate access, see Topics.

Members

The Members section is the room: the people and agents in the space, one row each. Like Topics, it ships collapsed with a rollup badge on the header, and your open-or-closed choice is saved per space and follows you across devices.

At its top is You & Naumu, shown with your avatar paired with Naumu's - your stable place for solo items: your chats with just Naumu's AI plus any notes and views only you own. Below it come the members you're already talking with, then the rest of the roster, dimmed: a colleague or agent you've never exchanged a thread with still gets a row, and clicking it starts the conversation. Agent rows read You & <agent> and list only the threads the two of you share. In a large space the roster is dropped and only the rows real activity produced remain.

Expanding a member's row lists the unfiled threads you're both in, group chats included, so one thread can appear under more than one member, alongside the notes and views you both take part in. The X on a row hides it until it next carries a signal.

A member row's badge counts unread conversations, not unread messages - the same unit as the topic rows and the Activity row above them, so the numbers in the column always add up. And like a topic row, a member row (the You & Naumu row included) swaps its count for the pulsing @ badge when one of those unread conversations mentions you.

Privacy is not a section here - it's a property of each thread. A conversation with a person is visible to the space by default, and a private one is marked with a chip on its row. Drag member rows to reorder them; the order follows you across devices.

An Add members row at the bottom is where a space grows. It opens a picker of everyone already in the space - people and agents alike - so you can start a chat with any of them and keep their row around before a conversation exists. From the same place you can invite people by email and create an AI agent, without a detour through settings; a new agent pins itself as a member row as soon as it exists. Inviting and agent creation follow your permissions in the space, and pending requests to join the space badge this row.

Reminders

Reminders from your scheduled tasks surface in the sidebar as ordinary rows, marked with a bell icon so a fired reminder is easy to spot. A fired reminder deliberately survives Clear all unread: it keeps its bell until you open the thread it's anchored to or delete the reminder, so a bulk catch-up can't silently swallow it.

The bottom cluster

Pinned to the bottom of the sidebar are two tools:

• Explore - a popover with the space's libraries: Memory (your whole memory), Schema (the node and edge types in the space), Files & media, and History.
• Help - docs and support.

Settings is not a row here: the space's own settings hang off the space name at the top of the column, and your personal settings open from your avatar on the space rail or from the command palette.

Under the cluster, a sticky New chat footer starts a conversation from anywhere in the column, and creates notes and views from the same control.

Files & media

Files & media is a single library that merges the space's notes, views, and uploaded files into one browsable list. Open it from Explore, or from the command palette.

• Filter chips across the top narrow to one type - notes, views, or uploads - each with a live count.
• A sort dropdown and a grid/list toggle control the layout; your grid-or-list choice is remembered.
• + New creates a note or view, or uploads a file.
• Cards carry previews: note snippets and image thumbnails.

The header shows the space's name.

On mobile

On a phone, the sidebar becomes a nav drawer that mirrors the same structure - Activity, then Focus, then Topics, then Members. Tapping a topic opens its page inside the drawer, sliding in from the side; swipe back to return to the list. Focus rows trade their timestamp for a check: tap it for Done, hold it for Later, or use the row's long-press menu for either. The bottom of the drawer carries the same Explore row as the desktop; its libraries (Memory, Schema, Files & media, History) open as a bottom sheet.

Related

• Topics - the channel-like groups the sidebar is built around.
• Spaces - the workspace the sidebar navigates.
• Search - the command palette behind the sidebar search pill.
• Scheduled tasks - where the reminders in your sidebar come from.
• Members & sharing - who can see which items in the first place.