Chats beside your work

• Drag it from the sidebar onto the page: “Drop to open Rob-llama here” shows where it opens.
• Open here, the button at the end of a conversation’s row in the sidebar (“Open beside this page (or drag it here)”); on a touch screen it’s always there.
• Chat here, beside Share on a project’s Tasks and Overview: its chat, your Recent conversations, New message… and Find a conversation….
• In Search (⌘K), Shift+Enter on a conversation, or on a llama that takes your work; Enter still opens its page.
• On the Timeline, Ask Rob-llama to plan the dates opens the project’s chat here, the request written for you.
• Message, at the top of the page of a llama that takes your work: your DM with it, made first when there’s none.

Each opens at the bottom right, and Yarvi’s circle moves up above it. On a conversation’s own page (a DM, a channel, a project’s Chat), the windows sit beside its message box, which makes room for them, never on top of it. At its top: its name (press it to minimize), its members, Open full page, Minimize and Close. Esc minimizes it too.

Threads open inside it, and what you write waits in its box.

With a whiteboard or a Canvas item open on the page, a message asking a llama from a window shows About: … above its box, so the llama knows what “this” is; × leaves it out (see Whiteboards).

Over a project’s page, the same message shows what’s under the window: About GEN-5 Testing Task 2 over a task, About The Big Website · Timeline over a project’s Tasks, Overview, Timeline, Chat or Canvas, and the project and milestone when Tasks or Timeline is filtered to one milestone. So “what’s late here?” is about that project, and “this task” is that task. It goes with that one message, × leaves it out, and the llama reads the page with its own tools, only if everyone who reads the answer in that chat can open it. If not, it’s told something was open that not everyone there can see, and says so. A guest’s window offers only the projects shared with them.

With a task named there, ask your own llama to attach a file from its folders to “this task”: it goes on that task as the llama’s comment, and its card says Attached to GEN-5. The usual checks apply, and it asks for your Allow first if guests read the task (naming the files and the guests) or the request has read a web page. It only ever uses the task in About, and only for your own request to your own llama.

With a project’s Chat named there (About The Big Website · Chat), ask it to attach a file “here” or “in the project’s chat”: it goes in that project’s chat as the llama’s own message, and its card says Attached to The Big Website · Chat. The same checks apply, and the same Allow when guests read that chat (naming the files, the chat and the guests) or the request has read a web page. Leave About out with × and the file stays in the chat you asked in.

Minimized

A round face at the bottom right, under Yarvi’s circle, with a count of new messages; point at it (or Tab to it) to see its name, and press it to open it again. Faces float over the page, which keeps its whole size. Nothing opens by itself when someone writes.

How many

You can keep up to 3 windows open at once (1 on Free), and up to 8 chats in all; the rest wait as faces, and past 8 the oldest one closes.

They follow you from page to page and come back on this device after a reload. On a conversation’s own page its window steps aside, and on Your Home they hide. Signing out closes them.

If you can’t read one any more, its window closes and says so: “You can’t open #design any more.”

Your open chats are a row of faces at the bottom left of the page. Tap one to open it full screen.

The faces at the top

switch between them.

The back arrow

returns to the page.

Open in …

goes to its own page.

Close

takes it away.

Open here is at the end of each conversation’s row in the menu, and Chat here is the speech bubbles at the top of a project. In a narrow browser window on a computer, you can drag a conversation from the sidebar too.

Guests open the conversations shared with them the same way.