Chat helps members keep live conversation connected to shared work, preserve useful outcomes, and continue privately when a one-to-one or group discussion is the better fit. Use this guide to understand the two conversation spaces or follow a complete workflow for topics, messages, files, Direct Messages, and custom emoji.
Chat helps members keep live conversation connected to shared work, preserve useful outcomes, and continue privately when a one-to-one or group discussion is the better fit. Use this guide to understand the two conversation spaces or follow a complete workflow for topics, messages, files, Direct Messages, and custom emoji.
Start Here
Chat is the main overview. It explains how Activity Chat, article-backed topic summaries, Direct Messages, shared message tools, attention signals, article publication, and meeting handoffs fit together.
Activity Chat keeps a live exchange visibly attached to its activity and topics.
Choose The Right Conversation
•
Activity Chat - Keep shared discussion inside an activity, catch up from topic and unread boundaries, and carry valuable contributions into durable work.
•
Topics and Summaries - Understand how topic dividers organize conversation and how Activity Chat turns discussion into an article-backed summary.
•
Direct Messages - Use private one-to-one and group conversations, participant-scoped topics, personal organization, search, files, and meetings.
Understand Messages
•
Messages and Replies - Compose, format, reply, mention people, reference goals, edit your own messages, and work within the 3000-character limit.
•
Files, Links, and Previews - Share supported media and work files, follow upload progress, recognize preview and download behavior, and protect the intended audience.
•
Emoji, Reactions, and Awards - Express tone, acknowledge a message, use space custom emoji, and distinguish reactions from Awards and Medals.
Follow An Activity Discussion From Start To Result
•
Create and Summarize a Topic - Choose the right activity, publish an article-backed topic, hold the discussion, preserve its outcome, and move it safely when its home changes.
•
Compose, Reply, and Reference - Answer in context, mention the right participant, insert a durable goal reference, verify the result, and edit it in place.
•
Share Files in Chat - Select the audience, add local files or stored Documents, monitor the upload, and confirm that recipients can use the result.
•
Publish a Chat Message - Turn one valuable shared-chat message or oversized draft into a reviewed article without confusing it with the topic summary.
Work With Direct Messages
•
Start and Manage a Group Conversation - Reuse one-to-one history safely, review retained content before adding people, verify the audience, rename the group, and understand leaving or rejoining.
•
Organize Direct Messages - Use Favorites, mute, read controls, blocking, and leaving at the right level without confusing attention settings with membership.
Administer Chat For A Space
Chat Administration is for space owners and members with verified Manage Chat access. It explains the customer-facing custom emoji catalog without exposing private platform administration.
Related Guidance
•
Share a Goal in Chat - Use /goal, a space key such as /VS-, or an exact reference such as /VS-42 to insert the intended goal.
•
Goal References - Understand stable goal identity, changing space keys, duplicate-key choices, and the safe Goal unavailable state.
3 Followers
Visual Space
Visual Space is built for projects like this—where creators collaborate, organize goals, and grow communities around real work.
