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Use this guide to understand the Medal recognition on another member's profile, inspect a saved certificate, and give a Medal when their contribution deserves a lasting record. **Awards and Medals mark different moments.** Awards are quick item-level appreciation. Medals are rare lasting recognition of a person, backed by an issuing space and preserved in a certificate. For the wider recognition model, read [Profile Recognition](../profile-recognition.md).

Use this guide to set aside useful content, find it again from your personal saved list, and remove the reminder when you are finished. View Later works with supported posts, articles, documents, files, folders, events, and goals. For the feature’s scope and privacy boundaries, read [View Later](../view-later.md).

Use this guide to review the people you blocked from Direct Messages and remove a block when you are ready. The list belongs to your signed-in account and is separate from notification preferences.

Use this guide when you know your current account email and want to replace your Visual Space password. You will request a secure link from Account Settings, complete the change from that email, and confirm it at a future sign-in.

Use this guide to turn a basic profile into a clear public introduction, then check the result as another visitor would see it. You will update the visible text, avatar, banner, and skills on your own profile page.

A public profile is your durable introduction in Visual Space. It gives visitors one place to understand who you are, what you work on, and which of your posts you have published. When you open your own profile while signed in, the same page becomes a lightweight editing surface.

Profiles is your personal home in Visual Space. It connects the identity and published work that other people can see with the settings, saved content, and recognition that help you manage your own experience.

Medals let a space recognize a member whose contribution deserves to remain part of their story. They appear with the member’s profile, carry the context of the space that issued them, and open as certificates that explain what was recognized. **Medals are rare lasting recognition.** They are not purchased, collected as a spendable balance, or used as ordinary reactions. A space grants them thoughtfully when a contribution, skill, or positive impact deserves a durable acknowledgement.

Profiles brings your public identity, published work, saved content, recognition, and private account controls into one connected personal home. Use this guide to understand what other people can see, shape your profile, return to useful work, or manage your account safely.

Account Settings is the private navigation home for choices tied to your signed-in account. It brings preferences, safety, security, recognition history, and paid access into one place, even when those subjects have their own dedicated pages elsewhere in Visual Space. **It is not the profile editor.** Change your display name, job title, tagline, biography, skills, avatar, and banner on your own profile page. [Public Profiles](public-profiles.md) explains what other people can see and how owners

Use `Manage Subscription` to review recurring paid access, prepare a change, or continue to the platform that owns a cancellation. By the end of this guide, you will know what contributes to the monthly estimate, which access or Boosts may end, and how to verify the result.

Use this guide to compare paid options on `Premium`, complete a purchase, and check that the right benefit reached your account. Visual Space offers four product families, so the best choice depends on whether you want an account membership, access to creative or engineering apps, more capacity for a space, or more Awards to give.

Use this guide to place an available Space Boost where it will help, move an active Boost as projects change, or return it to your unassigned inventory. The result is a space-wide capacity change without changing who can enter the space or what its members are allowed to do.

Space Boosts let you direct extra capacity to the spaces that need it. A Boost belongs to you when you buy it or receive it through an eligible subscription. It does not change any space until you assign it. That separation is useful when you work across several spaces. You can keep a Boost available, give it to one joined space, or move it as your projects change. Once assigned, **the benefit belongs to the chosen space in practice**: everyone uploading there uses the improved space limit, not

Payments brings Visual Space's paid choices into one place without turning them into one all-or-nothing plan. You can choose an Abo for your account, add access to the apps you use, assign a Boost to a space that needs more capacity, or top up the Awards you spend on appreciation. The important distinction is **where each benefit applies**. Abos and app access belong to you. A Boost belongs to you until you assign it, then improves the chosen space for everyone working there. Awards form a perso

`Manage Subscription` brings your current recurring paid access and Space Boost inventory into one account view. Use it to understand what is active, where a Boost is helping, and which monthly products contribute to the estimate before you make a change. The page is **not a billing history, receipt list, or invoice**. Final charges, taxes, receipts, and cancellation controls belong to the platform where each purchase was made.

Payments helps you choose an Abo, unlock creative or engineering apps, add capacity to a space, and top up the Awards you use for appreciation. Start with the overview, compare the product family that matches your goal, or follow a complete purchase and management walkthrough.

Award top-ups add more spendable Awards without changing your Abo. Awards are quick, visible appreciation for useful items and contributions across Visual Space, while a top-up is a one-time purchase rather than a monthly subscription.

App access lets you add a creative or engineering workspace without changing your Visual Space Abo. Choose a pack when you use several related apps, or subscribe to one standalone app when your work is more focused. The key distinction is **access versus visibility**. Paid app access unlocks supported creation and editing. It does not replace membership, ownership, privacy, or role permissions in a space. People without the app subscription can still view shared app work where normal space permi

An Abo is your monthly platform role in Visual Space. It sets whether you use the Free participation baseline, support the platform as a Contributor, or unlock eligible organizing workflows as a Coordinator. Choosing an Abo is about **how you participate across Visual Space**, not about buying entry to a particular space. Membership, private areas, ownership, and role permissions still decide where you can go and what you can do.

Use this guide when you want to catch up on important activity and return to the work behind each notice. You will open the global Notification Center, identify what arrived since your last check, and confirm that the rows you choose lead to the expected destination.

Use this guide to set a calm notification baseline for your account, then make one joined space, subspace, or activity behave differently. You will finish with a global choice that applies across Visual Space and, when useful, one clearly visible area exception.

Notifications give signed-in users one calm place to review important activity across Visual Space. The center favors updates that help you act or understand what changed, then takes you straight back to the relevant work. It is **not a second inbox for every event**. Chat, Direct Messages, and update indicators on joined spaces or activities keep their own attention signals. This separation lets the notification center remain useful without repeating every message or local update.

Notification preferences let you decide which kinds of updates may enter your personal [notification center](notifications.md). They belong to your account, so you can keep one calm default across Visual Space and make focused exceptions for the places that need more or less attention.

The Notification Center gives signed-in users one low-noise place to catch important activity and return to the work behind it. It brings together selected content, space, recognition, engagement, role, and Visual Space notices without replacing the unread indicators that belong to chats and direct messages.

Notifications keeps important activity in one calm in-app center while leaving conversation unread signals with Chat and Direct Messages. Use this guide to understand the center, choose what may reach it, or follow a complete catch-up and preference-setting journey.

Use this walkthrough to enter an ad-hoc meeting from an activity or a direct-message conversation, confirm that you are connected, and leave without confusing the meeting stage with the call itself. The entry point changes with the conversation, but the rest of the meeting experience is shared. Follow the preparation first, take the activity or direct-message branch, then continue with the common checkpoints.

Use this walkthrough when you want to present a display or application window, confirm that the meeting received it, and arrange the stage around the content. You will also learn how to move between several simultaneous shares, replace your source, and stop presenting without leaving the call.

Use this walkthrough when you want to stay in a meeting while reading, editing, or moving elsewhere in Visual Space. You will open the full stage once, keep a useful feed nearby in picture-in-picture, and return to the stage without starting or joining the call again. **Closing the stage and leaving the meeting are different actions.** The stage close control returns you to the workspace while the call continues. The red `Leave meeting` control disconnects you, removes the stage or picture-in-pi

Use this walkthrough to bring eligible people into an active meeting, respond to an invitation, take part without interrupting, and verify what changed in the room. The final section is reserved for space owners and members with chat-management permission because muting or removing another person is **room moderation**, not ordinary participation.

Live apps let an activity meeting work with Visual Space content as a shared, selectable feed. This walkthrough takes you from opening `Live Apps` through choosing or creating work, arranging it on the stage, switching between active apps, and ending the shared feed cleanly.

The meeting stage gives cameras, shared screens, audio participants, and shared work one flexible place to appear. It sits over the Visual Space workspace you were already using, so changing the meeting view does not discard the activity, conversation, or work underneath it. The important idea is that **the stage arranges feeds, not merely people**. Choose the feed that matters now, then move between an all-room view and a more concentrated view without changing the meeting itself.

Meeting participation ranges from a quick emoji to removing someone from the room. Visual Space keeps those actions together while preserving a clear difference between **expression**, which helps anyone take part, and **room management**, which can change another participant's call. Reactions, raised hands, invitations, participant profiles, Awards, and meeting controls all use the room that is active now. Their availability depends on whether the call belongs to an activity or a direct-message

Meetings bring voice, video, screen sharing, and shared work into the part of Visual Space where a conversation is already happening. An activity or direct-message conversation provides the room, while the surrounding workspace stays available before, during, and after the call. **Continuity is the defining idea.** Joining does not make the meeting a separate destination that takes over your work. You can open the full meeting stage when you want everyone in view, then return to an activity, doc

Meeting rooms keep a call attached to the activity or direct-message conversation where it belongs. Activity meetings and direct-message calls use the same meeting experience for voice, video, screen sharing, reactions, raised hands, invitations, and feedback, but the room's scope still determines who can see it, where it returns, and which collaboration controls are available.

Meeting live apps turn supported workspace content into a selectable feed inside an activity meeting. The group can read, discuss, and work in the relevant app without leaving the call or replacing the surrounding Visual Space context. **A live app is shared meeting content, not a screen share.** It keeps the workspace interactive and gives its own tools room alongside the meeting controls. Cameras, participant audio, screen shares, and other live apps remain available as separate feeds.

Meeting controls keep the essentials close while you are speaking, presenting, or watching someone else. The main call bar handles immediate actions; nearby selectors help you change equipment or choose what to share without leaving the meeting stage. These controls serve different purposes. **Muting changes whether others hear you**, turning off the camera removes your video, stopping a screen share removes only the content you were presenting, and hanging up leaves the meeting altogether.

Meetings brings live conversation and shared work into activities and direct messages without separating the call from the rest of Visual Space. Start with the overview, explore the part of the meeting you need, or follow a complete task from joining through hanging up.

Use Frames on a meeting stage when you want to explore a video sequence without leaving the conversation. You will open or create a Frames project, work with its local timeline tools, move between meeting layouts, and finish without mistaking the project entry for a saved edit.

Use Canvas in an activity meeting to review artwork together or make focused changes without leaving the shared stage. The meeting opens the same durable Canvas file you can use outside the call, so the work remains available after the meeting ends.

This walkthrough takes a Blueprint from an empty, references-first file to a saved CAD-lite design with a closed sketch, a dimension, the supported horizontal constraint, an extruded preview body, a model-linked drawing, and an exported `.svg` sheet. You will also inspect the design, leave review context beside it, and reopen the file to prove that its editable snapshot returned. Blueprints is useful for concept parts, learning, and technical review. **The body, measurements, and drawing remain

This guide helps the active editor make a deliberate choice between keeping a draft editable and publishing its layout entry as permanently read-only. You will export and verify a PNG first, confirm that the current tab still owns editing, publish only when the one-way result is useful, and check the published state afterward.

Use this walkthrough to move from a space area into the right Live App, find or create an item, and confirm both access and persistence before you begin substantial work. You will reach the editor with a clear expectation of what can return after you leave.

You will create or open an unpublished layout, draw a small measured plan, review it, and export the visible canvas as a PNG. This guide is designed for a single focused editing session because the current drawing does not reopen after you leave, reload, or switch sessions.

This walkthrough takes a Canvas from an empty area-owned file to a small layered artwork that you can safely leave and reopen. Along the way, you will paint on one layer, add editable text, test the layer controls, confirm the online save, and optionally keep a local `.vscanvas` project copy.

You will build a small local 3D scene, organize and inspect it, test one reversible edit, and download the supported result as a `.gltf` file. The finished export can carry visible Poly primitives, groups, transforms, and basic materials, but **it is not a saved Poly project** and cannot preserve the whole editing session.

Use this walkthrough to assemble a short local sequence in Frames, check its timing, and capture the editing decisions you want to keep. You will finish with a useful session draft and review plan, **not a rendered or finished video**.

This walkthrough takes a MathPad draft from an empty formula to a verified copy in another tool. You will build `f = (x₁ + y²) / (z + 1)` as a structured expression, inspect its parts, exercise the formula clipboard and history, then copy the representation that best fits your next destination.

Use this guide to place a MathPad formula in an article and check what readers will actually receive. Article formulas can carry an accessible snapshot and a link back to MathPad, but the current visible authoring action is still a preview: it inserts a new linked MathPad draft as a block and does not capture the formula already open in MathPad.

Poly is an approachable 3D scene editor for arranging objects, exploring spatial ideas, and checking how a small scene looks from different views. Its workspace keeps the 3D viewport at the center, with the Scene hierarchy, object controls, materials, camera tools, assets, and history close at hand. **Poly currently keeps drafts and scene edits only in the active app session.** A draft can look like a file in Poly's explorer, but its objects, transforms, materials, imports, and history are not s