Understanding the Sidebar & Screens

The left menu on desktop — from the top

The sidebar on the left of the screen shows, from the top, the organization switcher, Goals, Notifications, and Chat, followed by the features you pinned in "Other features" (at first, Members and Ranking), and finally More. Your own icon is at the very bottom (→ "5. More" below). While you have a challenge you haven't finished, "Challenges" also appears below Chat.

• Organization switcher (the organization icon at the very top) — Press it to open the list of organizations you belong to, and pick one to switch to it. "Create a new organization" is here too. If an invitation from another organization has arrived, it's listed under "Pending invitations" at the bottom of the list
• Your own icon (at the very bottom) — Shows your name (profile), "My Settings" (Profile, Notifications, Display & language, and more), "Organization settings" (admins only), "More Addness," and "Log out." Your profile, My Settings, and Organization settings open in a new in-app tab

1. Goals

The center of daily execution. Your ToDos are at the top and your own goal tree below, with due dates visible as a badge on each row. Adding, decomposing, and completing goals, and handing one to the AI from the row's "Ask AI" icon, are all done here (→ Goal page).

2. Notifications

Where you notice changes that affect your goals. @mentions, thread replies, and goal updates gather here, and a red badge appears when there's something unread. Clear them from the top with "Mark as read" (→ Notifications page).

3. Chat

Where goal chats, groups, and DMs gather. Use the tabs at the top (All, Goals, Groups, DM, Network) to narrow down the type of conversation. A goal's chat is the same thing as the goal's comments. Unread is shown with a badge (→ Chat page).

4. Members

Where you see the whole team. "Members" in the sidebar is an item that's pinned from the start. If you unpin it, it disappears from the sidebar and you open it from "Other features." You can switch between "List" and "Org chart," and see who's doing what, their ToDos, and activity history. You also "Invite" new members from here. Only admins can create invite links (→ Members list page).

5. More (…)

Press "More" and the "Other features" page opens. It has the following groups, from the top.

• Pinned — The features you've pinned
• Add-ons — Members, Ranking, My Page, Virtual Space, Knowledge, Templates, Mind maps, Drive, Recordings, Audio recordings, Customers, Analytics, Usage report, File Send, Network, and more
• AI and automation — MCP (connect the AI you already use) and CLI
• Support & account — Help, Announcements, My Settings, and "Organization settings" (shown only to admins)
• More Addness — Links to Addness's other products, diagnosis, and the community

In a newly created organization, some add-ons may carry "Open with a challenge." They become available once you finish that challenge or press "Skip and use it (no points)." Features your plan doesn't include show "◯◯ or above."

Here are the main add-ons.

• Knowledge — Keeps your organization's ways of working, so members and the AI read the same thing (→ Knowledge)
• Templates — Reuse the organization's goal trees (→ Templates page)
• Mind maps — A canvas to branch out and write down your ideas. Share it with members and edit together (→ Mind map)
• Drive — The organization's material store. Goal resources, minutes, screen recordings, and uploads gather here (→ Drive)
• Customers — The customer list (CRM). See what stage customers are at in a table and have the AI carry out the next move (→ Customer list (CRM))
• Analytics — A dashboard you build by talking to the AI, refreshed every morning (→ Analytics)
• Usage report — See how much Addness is being used, in numbers updated every morning. Everyone except guests can see "Me," and admins can see the whole organization (→ Usage report in Organization settings)
• File Send — Hand a large file to someone via a share link. Opens in a new browser tab (→ File Send)
• Network — Where you can check public profiles, posts and activity, search for people and organizations, rankings, and job openings. Opens in a new browser tab (→ Addness Network)

Pinning: Pin a feature with the pin button on an add-on's card ("Pin"). Pinned features go into the "Pinned" group, and on desktop they also appear in the left sidebar between "Chat" and "More." You can pin up to 5. On desktop, the pin button appears when you hover over a card (on touch devices such as phones, it's always shown). To remove a pin, press "Unpin" in the same place.

• Pins are saved per browser. They don't carry over to another computer or browser
• They don't appear in the navigation at the bottom of the screen on mobile (only Members appears in the bottom navigation while it's pinned)
• Help and Organization settings can't be pinned

Open the Meeting notes list from Meeting notes, directly after Drive under More → Add-ons. Pin it to open it from the desktop sidebar or the main features on a new tab. You can also use "Open meeting notes" in the completion notification (→ Meetings and minutes).

The buttons at the top right (desktop)

At the top right of the screen are the "Recording, audio, meetings & notes" button and Streak 🔥. Press "Recording, audio, meetings & notes" to start a "Record" (screen recording), "Audio" (audio only), or "Meeting" (a meeting with notes that isn't tied to a goal). It also appears at the top of the screen on mobile. Screen recording can't be started if your device doesn't support it (record from a browser on a computer). Meetings can't be started from a mobile browser (start them from the Addness app or a browser on a computer) (→ Screen recording · Meetings and minutes). Press "Meeting notes" to open the request form for a bot to join Zoom or Google Meet and create meeting notes.

Setup starts from the row of the "Set up Addness" goal on your goal page (→ Goal page). For steps starting from installing the AI app, see Install an AI app and connect it to Addness.

In-app tabs (desktop)

In the very top row of the screen (the header), a tab strip like a browser's tabs appears. It's the mechanism for keeping multiple pages open inside Addness. Tabs showing goals (the goal detail page or Everyone's goals) keep their scroll position and expanded state even when you switch tabs.

Tabs are added mainly with these actions.

• The "Everyone's goals" button at the top right of the goal page
• The "View goal details" icon at the right end of a goal row (the goal detail page opens in a new tab)
• Your profile, "My Settings," and "Organization settings," opened from the menu on your own icon at the bottom left
• The "＋" at the right end of the strip ("Open new tab"). From "Choose what to open," you can pick Goals, Notifications, Chat, Members, Drive, Customers, Analytics, Usage report, or Templates. You can also open one from "Recently viewed goals" (up to 6) below that
• When you click a link inside Addness with the mouse wheel (middle-click)
• When you open from a link outside Addness, such as Slack or email

Ordinary links in the sidebar or within a page navigate within the tab you're viewing (no tab is added). Hold ⌘ (Ctrl on Windows) while clicking to open the link in a new browser tab instead of an in-app tab. Help doesn't open in an in-app tab.

Reorder tabs by dragging, and close them with the × at the right end. Close them all and a single new tab remains. There can be up to 8 tabs; beyond that, the oldest tab other than the one you're viewing closes automatically and a notice appears. This strip doesn't appear on mobile.

On mobile

• The navigation at the bottom of the screen has these icons, from the left: Chat, Notifications, Goals, Members, More (Members appears only while it's pinned). Press "More" and the same "Other features" page as on desktop opens
• Scroll down and the header at the top and the navigation at the bottom hide. Scroll up and they come back
• Open the menu (≡) at the top left to switch organizations at the very top. Below that, "More" lists Drive, File Send, Customers, Analytics, Mind maps, Templates, Network, Help, and Organization settings (admins only), followed by "More Addness." From "My Settings" at the very bottom, you can open the 8 pages such as Profile, Notifications, and Display & language. You can also log out from the menu
• Usage report isn't in the ≡ menu. Open it from "More" → "Other features"
• The button to the right of ≡ opens the goal tree
• Pinned features don't appear in the bottom navigation (they appear under "Pinned" in "Other features")
• In-app tabs are desktop-only