# Use Home

> What Home shows: the message box, what needs you, the routines of today and the routines to hand over.

Home is the first page of the app. It greets you, gives you a message box to the troop, says what needs you, and shows
the routines of the day. This page tells what each part of Home shows, and when it shows.

## Open Home

Select **Home** at the top of the sidebar. Home fits a laptop screen with no scroll. Its two rows of routines scroll
sideways.

A guest has no Home. A guest opens on the first product that someone shared with it.

## The parts of Home

| Part                      | What it shows                                                                | When it shows                                     |
| ------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------- |
| Greeting                  | Your first name and the time of day.                                         | Always.                                           |
| Plan line                 | "Connect" and the name of your AI plan, with a button for owners and admins. | While the plan is not connected.                  |
| Message box               | A box to any teammate. The Chief of Staff is first.                          | When the workspace has a teammate.                |
| Needs-you line            | How many things need you, and a rough time to answer them.                   | When something waits for you.                     |
| Connect card              | **Connect an app**, for owners and admins.                                   | When the workspace connected no app yet.          |
| **Today's routines**      | One chip for each routine on a schedule that runs today, at its time.        | Always. Empty days say **No routine runs today**. |
| **Routines to hand over** | Cards of templates that are not on yet, with **See all templates**.          | Always.                                           |

## Send a message from Home

1. Type in the message box. The box says **Ask your Chief of Staff anything, or hand over a job...**.
2. To write to another teammate, select the face beside **Send**. The **Send to** menu lists the troop.
3. Select **Send**, or press Enter. Shift with Enter starts a new line.

The chat of the teammate opens, and its answer comes there. The box has more:

| Control                                  | What it does                                                                                     |
| ---------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| @                                        | Brings in a teammate by its name.                                                                |
| / at the start                           | Opens the skills, so that the teammate uses one.                                                 |
| **Attach**                               | Adds text, PDF or Word files. Files go to the brain, where everyone in the workspace finds them. |
| **Add a doc, task or interview to read** | Adds a doc, a task, an interview, a research or a canvas for the teammate to read.               |

See [Give your troop work that it can finish](/docs/give-work).

## What needs you

The line under the box says, for example, "3 things need you, about 4 minutes." The time shows only up to 10 minutes.
Select the line to open **Needs you**. See [Answer what needs you](/docs/needs-you).

## Today's routines

Each chip is a routine that runs today, in the time zone of the workspace. A chip shows the time, the face of the
teammate and the title. A routine that runs many times a day shows one chip. Select a chip to open the routine.

## Routines to hand over

Each card is a template: work that a teammate of a role does by itself. A card says what the routine does, and who
does it. Owners and admins switch a template on from its card. **See all templates** opens **Routines** >
**Templates**. See [Schedule work with routines](/docs/routines).

## Connect an app

An owner or admin of a workspace with no connected app sees a card: "Your teammates read Stripe, GitHub, Notion and
more after you connect them." **Connect an app** opens **Settings** > **Apps**. **Not now** puts the card
away for 14 days.

## Related

- [Give your troop work that it can finish](/docs/give-work)
- [Answer what needs you](/docs/needs-you)
- [Schedule work with routines](/docs/routines)
- [Chat with a teammate and call it](/docs/chat)