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Home
What is happening today, and your room. One screen on the Mac, the phone and the browser.
Where
| Client | Reach it | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Mac | ⌘1, or the switcher in any window | The Home window holds the room flow: Launch while idle, Stage in a meeting |
| iPhone and iPad | The Home tab | For the signed-in owner, the top-bar + opens New Quick Note; Search and Settings are in More. Signed out there is no tab bar; the unsigned root is one card |
| Web | / | Signed in: the member Home. Signed out: the visitor page |
What is on it
The clock is always first, the version line always last. Between them, the modules, in the order and set you choose in Settings → Home. Starlings hides a module that has nothing to show.
The date beneath the clock uses the same weekday, day and month order on Mac, phone and web, in the selected app language.
| Module | Holds | Row opens |
|---|---|---|
| MESSAGES | Unread conversations, each with an accent dot and how long ago the last message came, kept current while Home is open | Work for a subject's, Team for a person's |
| INVITATIONS | Calendar invitations waiting for an answer, with Accept / Maybe / Decline in place | The event |
| WORK | Inbox items, then overdue and due today. Decision rows name the sender alongside the recommendation and default-by day | A task opens its details; other rows open their destination |
| COMMERCIAL | Twelve-month offers, sales, pipeline and new-license totals from the CRM. On the web, a second card, Signals accounts, lists the Signals accounts to follow up: overdue first, then no owner, then no next task. Each row shows the stage, license, trial and partnership, the owner and next task, and the usage figures with their age. Accounts that are not now or lost are counted, not listed. The card reads Core again every 15 seconds while Home is in front. All Signals accounts in Work opens Work's Signals view. A row's Tasks… lists the account's open tasks, marks one done, and adds a task with a due date and assignee | A Signals account opens in Core |
| QUICK NOTES | Capture now, file later | The note |
| UPCOMING | The next meeting as the hero, then the following rows; on the web the hero includes event context and attendee status. Join appears ten minutes before the start and joins in the app | The event |
| EVENTS | Upcoming published Envisioning events | The public event page |
| YOUR ROOM | Start / Join, Copy room link; on the Mac, the WAITING ROOM queue is inside the room launcher. Cannot be hidden | — |
| QUICK ACCESS | The final module: full-width across both columns on wide Home, one column on narrow Home. One horizontal row with no vertical scrolling inside the card; scroll sideways to reach more tiles. Starred things come first, then up to eight recent-only things from this device; each tile shows its type and starred mark, and an overlap appears once | As it does from Search |
Events marked Hide from Next are omitted from UPCOMING and meeting alerts. They remain visible in Calendar, where Show in Next restores them.
On the Mac, WAITING ROOM is part of the YOUR ROOM launcher, above the room action and with each guest's queue controls.
The circular Watch next-meeting complication shows the Envisioning mark when it is not showing an imminent countdown. Tap the mark to open Meet Home on Watch.
On iPhone and iPad the inline Quick Notes field wraps and grows up to six lines; Return still saves the note.
On iPhone and iPad the inline Quick Notes field wraps and grows up to six lines; Return still saves the note.
File… on a Quick Note opens a searchable destination picker on Mac, iPhone/iPad and web. Type to filter projects, leads or conversations; subject searches can reach entries beyond the first page. The choices are reused for five minutes and refreshed after their source lists change or the owner signs out.
Controls
| Control | Does | Shortcut |
|---|---|---|
| Start room | Opens your permanent room and puts you on Stage | ⌘↩ (Start Meeting) |
| Start & Admit | Opens the room and admits the next person in the waiting room | — |
| Join | Enter a room by slug, as a guest | ⌘J on the Mac |
| Copy room link | Puts /room/<slug> on the clipboard | ⌘⇧C |
| Search | Opens the Search palette; on iOS choose Search anything… in More | ⌘K on Mac and web |
| New Quick Note | Opens a capture drawer from the iOS Home bar; the unfiled note stays private | — |
| Settings | The gear (web header, iOS toolbar) or ⌘, | ⌘, |
| Home settings | The gear at the top right of the modules: Settings → Home, where the modules are ordered and switched | — |
| File… | Opens the searchable destination picker for a Quick Note; the project, lead and conversation choices are cached for five minutes | QUICK NOTES row |
Row menus (web)
Every Home row and tile has a menu. Open it with the … on the row, a right-click, or ⇧F10. The … shows when the pointer is over the row or the row has focus; on a touch screen it is always there. Tab reaches the …; the arrow keys skip it.
| Row | Menu |
|---|---|
| MESSAGES | Open, Copy link / Star |
| INVITATIONS | Accept, Maybe, Decline / Open in Calendar; a proposed event: Add, Discard |
| WORK | Task and issue details first; other inbox rows keep their available actions |
| QUICK NOTES | Edit, File… / Delete |
| UPCOMING | Join (a video meeting), then Open in Calendar |
| EVENTS | Open, Copy link (an event with a sign-up page) |
| QUICK ACCESS | Open, Copy link / Star |
The Mac and the phone have more on some rows (Mute, Archive and Mark as read on a conversation, Hide from Next on a meeting). The web leaves those out until it has the call.
Keyboard (web)
Tab reaches every row. On a long Home, the arrow keys are faster:
| Key | Does |
|---|---|
| ↓ / ↑ | Next / previous row, across modules |
| ⌥↓ / ⌥↑ | First row of the next / previous module |
| Home / End | First / last row |
| ⇧F10 | The row's menu; Escape puts you back on the row |
| ↩ | Open the row |
Leads to
Calendar, Work, Team, Docs (the other four surfaces); meeting through Start or Join; settings.
Where it works
| Capability | macOS Host | macOS Join | Web | iOS / iPadOS | Agent access |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home / own room status / copy room link | Works | Not available | Works | Works | now (MCP) |
| Today's work on Home | Works | Not available | Works | Works | — |
| Forward a mail to calendar@ and add the events it describes | Works | Not available | Works | Works | — |
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