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Home and ad hoc work

Home and ad hoc work

Home is your personal workspace. The chats you start from Home stay personal: only you see them, only you can resume them. That makes Home the right place for quick questions, exploration, and drafts that haven't earned a shared Project yet.

Audience: analysts and builders

The Home page

Home is the landing surface for every user, at /. The top banner is labeled "Ad hoc work" with an "Only you" qualifier so the privacy posture is clear. Below the banner you'll see the rest of the workspace: your Projects, Apps, and Data Collections.

Starting a new ad hoc conversation

The composer on Home reads "Ask a question or start something new…" and accepts the same input as any project chat: text, file attachments, and @-mentioned references to files, integrations, and personal credentials.

  • Keyboard shortcut. Press N to focus the composer.
  • Attachments. Drag a file in or use the attach control. The first attachment becomes the start of the thread.
  • Personal integrations. Integrations you have personally connected (like your own Gmail or Slack) are available from the composer's reference picker.

When you send the message, the platform creates a new thread in your Home Project and you land in that thread. From there it behaves like any Project conversation.

Resuming your latest thread

The banner also shows "Your conversations" with a deep link to your most recent thread. One click and you're back where you left off. Older threads are reachable through the Home Project's thread rail once you're inside the conversation.

Ad hoc work versus a Project. Ad hoc threads are private to you and live in your Home Project. A Project (the shared kind) is shared with your team and accumulates Context that everyone benefits from. When an ad hoc thread is worth keeping or sharing, the right move is to formalize it as a Project, not to keep working in Home.

When to use ad hoc work

  • Quick questions you do not want to share yet.
  • Exploration of a new integration or data source.
  • Drafts of instructions, runbooks, or templates before you commit them to a Project.
  • Sandbox prompts where you're not sure what you're asking for.

What this article will cover

  • The Home banner and the "Only you" framing
  • The composer: text, attachments, @ references, and the N shortcut
  • Personal integrations available from Home
  • The "Your conversations" resume link
  • The Home Project and where ad hoc threads live
  • Promoting an ad hoc thread or theme into a Project
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