Dashboard
The Dashboard is the first thing you land on after signing in. It brings your active work together in one view, and puts a Workbench composer at the top so you can start the work rather than only look at it.
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The header
A persistent header runs across the top of the Dashboard:
- Search (⌘K), which searches your matters and chats. The header stays with you as you move around the platform, so search is always at the top rather than something you go back to the Dashboard for.
- The Workspace selector, which scopes everything you see.
- Your notifications, with a count when something is waiting.
- The My Desk button, which opens your personal workspace. See My Desk.
Below the header sits a greeting, and then the composer.
Ask from the top of the page
A Workbench composer sits at the top of the Dashboard. Type a question, attach a file, or dictate with the microphone, and give it a job without opening another screen first.
The composer controls sit along its lower edge: how many of your accounts are connected, the depth dial set to Quick, Standard, or Thorough, and Amplify Prompt, which sharpens a rough question before you send it. See AI Modes.
When you send, the conversation opens in place, directly above the input. Nothing is replaced and you do not change pages. The rest of the Dashboard shifts down once, by a bounded amount, and stays on screen, so your matters, panels, and connected accounts remain reachable while you work. A long conversation scrolls inside the composer instead of pushing the page any further.
The conversation stays open until you close it, and it carries its own controls:
- A count of the questions asked so far.
- View Files, for the files attached to the conversation.
- Move to Matter, which files the conversation into one of your matters.
- A visibility control, so you can see and set whether the conversation is private.
- Open in Workbench, which continues the same conversation in the full Workbench view.
- A close control, which clears the conversation and returns the composer to its empty state.
While a reply is generating you can stop it. Each answer carries its own actions: regenerate it, edit the question behind it, copy it straight out, download it as PDF or Word, or use Save this output to Notes in My Desk to keep it with the matter.
Active matters
Your active matters run below the composer, with a count in the section header.
Cards are condensed by default, showing the matter name and when it was last updated. Select a card to expand that one, or use Expand all in the section header to open all of them at once.
An expanded card shows, in order:
- Up to three tasks, with an overflow affordance for the rest.
- When the matter was last updated.
- The pinned note, if the matter has one.
- A link into the matter's Insights.
- Open, which takes you into the matter.
If a matter has no tasks yet, a suggestion appears in place of the task list.
Move through your matters with the arrows in the section header or by scrolling, and the dots below the row show where you are. A link at the bottom of the section opens your full matter list, which is also where you create a new matter. See Matters.
Your panels
Below your matters, four panels sit in a two-column grid.
| Panel | What it shows |
|---|---|
| Recent work | Your recent sessions across tools, each with the kind of work, its title, the matter it belongs to when it is linked to one, and when you last touched it. |
| Needs attention | Two tabs: items waiting on you, and recent team activity. Each row shows a tag, the item, supporting detail such as the matter and whether it is overdue, a button to open it, and a control to dismiss it. |
| Recent chats | Your recent conversations, with the time of each. |
| Recent documents | Your recent documents, with the time of each. |
Each panel header carries a count, so you can see how much is waiting without opening it.
Arranging panels
Every panel header carries its own controls, so there is no separate edit mode to turn on:
- Drag the handle to reorder a panel.
- Use the chevron to collapse or expand the panel body. The header stays either way.
- Use the thumbtack to unpin a panel and take it off the Dashboard. It drops back to Quick Access rather than disappearing.
Your arrangement is remembered, so the Dashboard opens the way you left it.
Quick Access
Quick Access sits below your panels and holds your tools: Tasks, Multi-Doc, Drafting, Research, Compare, Sign, and Templates. Click any one to launch straight into it.
The pin moves things between Quick Access and your panels. Pin something in Quick Access and it becomes a panel on the Dashboard. Unpin a panel and it drops back down to Quick Access. Nothing is lost either way, so you can promote what you are working from this week and send it back when you are done.
Workspace scoping
Everything on the Dashboard is scoped to your active Workspace. Matters, tasks, chats, documents, and team activity all reflect the Workspace you are in. Switch from the Workspace selector in the header, and the Dashboard updates to that workspace's work. See Workspaces.
Opening a matter
Selecting any matter card opens the full matter context, where the matter's documents, conversations, notes, tasks, drafted documents, and insights live together, along with an input scoped to that matter. Workspace context lives here too, so you can see who has access to the matter you are in.
Account settings
Your account-level settings, including your professional info, AI profile, and interface preferences, live in Account Settings. Open the circle with your initials in the bottom-left corner and choose Account Settings. See Account Settings.