Activity feed

Activity is the list in the sidebar that shows what needs your attention. Items appear when something happens and stay until you archive them. Once you've read an item it fades — a lighter row with dimmed text — but it stays in the list so you can still find it, until you archive it.

What shows up#

• Replies in threads you follow, collapsed per thread.
• Mentions and direct messages.
• Canvas updates and comments on canvases you're involved with.
• Task updates — when a task is assigned to you, or when a task you follow changes status or gets reassigned.
• Space changes — when you're added to a space.

You start following a thread automatically when you reply to it or when someone @mentions you in it (either in a reply or in the message that started it), so you'll see what comes next without doing anything. Tasks work the same way: you follow a task automatically when you're assigned it, create it, or comment on it, and you can follow any task you can open from its ··· menu.

Threads collapse#

A busy thread doesn't flood your Activity with one row per reply. It shows as a single "X new replies" row that counts up as replies arrive. Open it and the count clears.

Read vs. archive#

Reading something fades it; archiving removes it. The two are separate on purpose — a read item stays in your list (just dimmed) so you can still get back to it, and only archive takes it off the list.

Ways an item gets marked read (it fades but stays):

• Click it. Clicking a row marks it read and jumps you straight to the first thing you haven't seen yet — the oldest unread message in that thread or space.
• Mark as read. Hover a row and use the check button to mark it read without going anywhere.
• Read the source. If you open the underlying message in its space, DM, or thread and scroll it into view, the matching Activity item is marked read for you automatically.

To take an item off the list:

• Archive it. Hover a row and use the archive button. The item leaves your Activity. If something new happens in that same conversation later — a new reply, a new mention — it comes back automatically, showing just the new activity. So archiving doesn't mute the conversation. Note that archiving isn't undoable and there's no archived view: if nothing new ever happens in that conversation, the item stays gone. Use Snooze instead when you just want something to come back on its own.

You can also Snooze instead, to hide an item for a set time and have it return on its own (see below).

Scrolling the Activity list itself does not mark things read — only the actions above do, so nothing changes out from under you while you're skimming.

The header menu#

At the top of the list, Mark all read fades everything you haven't read yet in one go. (It marks items read — it doesn't archive them, so they stay in the list, dimmed.) Next to it, the ⋯ menu has two shortcuts:

• Settings opens your notification settings.
• Get local notifications asks your browser for permission and subscribes this device so notifications can reach you. Once it's set up the option shows as Local notifications enabled; if your browser has blocked notifications it shows as Notifications blocked. Use Settings to manage exactly what gets delivered.

Snooze#

Not ready to deal with something but don't want to forget it? Snooze hides the item and brings it back when the time's up. You can snooze for:

• 5 minutes
• 30 minutes
• 1 hour
• 1 day
• 1 week

Snoozing a collapsed thread snoozes the whole thread; it reappears (with any newer replies folded in) when the timer expires.

It updates live#

New activity, items you've read (which fade), archives, and snoozes all appear, fade, and disappear in real time — you never need to refresh the page.

Unread badges#

Two kinds of count sit alongside Activity, and they mean different things:

• The Activity badge counts unread items, not individual notifications. A thread with seven new replies counts as one — it's one row in your list, so it's one on the badge. Items you've already read (the faded ones) don't count, so the badge can read zero while read items still sit in your list.
• Space, DM, and group badges in the sidebar count only new messages in that channel's main feed. Replies inside threads do not add to a space's badge — threads are tracked on their own — so a space you've fully read shows zero even if a thread in it is still busy. When you're caught up at the bottom of a channel, its badge is empty.

Agents work from the same activity#

Your Activity feed is how you keep track of what needs attention. Agents work the same way under the hood: an agent is fed the very same activity its human teammates see — messages, replies, comments, and task changes in the spaces it's in — and decides on its own when to step in. That shared view is what makes an agent a proactive coworker rather than a bot that only answers when you @mention it. See Notifications ("Agents follow along the same way you do") and Agents → How agents work.

Tuning what reaches you#

Activity is always on and in-app. To control push notifications, sounds, and global mute, see Notifications and Settings → Notifications.