Attention

Attention is one list of what needs you, across all your chats: a review waiting for your decision, a blocker, a commitment a bot made, an important change. Your bots keep it, and a coordinating bot sums it up in a short brief.

Open it

• Mac: the Attention button in the toolbar shows while something waits, with how many as its badge. View › Attention (⇧⌘A) opens it at any time.
• Windows and Linux: the Attention button in the chat's header, beside Running tasks, or Ctrl+Shift+A.
• Phone: the Attention button beside Settings in the chat list, while something waits.

Each coordinator's latest brief comes first: the bot, when, and its Decision, Changed, and Next lines. Then the items, urgent first, each with its title, the next step, and whether it is a Review, Blocker, Commitment, or Change, with the chats it came from.

Click an item to open its chat. Right-click it (long-press on the phone) to open another chat it came from, or to choose Mark as Resolved.

A brief stays until its coordinator posts a new one, or until every item it is about is resolved. To take one off the list sooner, right-click it (long-press on the phone) and choose Dismiss. The coordinator's next brief shows again.

What puts an item there

• A bot reports something you need to know, such as a decision only you can make, a promise it made, or a change worth hearing about.
• Lorca adds some on its own: work waiting for your review, a task that is blocked or awaiting review, work a bot handed off that came back blocked or failed, and events or a channel on hold. These leave the list once the work moves on.

When two bots report the same thing, it is one item. A resolved item doesn't come back; new work is a new item.

The coordinator

Reports go to a coordinator: a group's owner, or the bot of a direct chat, unless you pick one bot to coordinate everything. The coordinator reads the list, resolves what is finished, and posts a brief in its direct chat when something needs you. A bot that alone reported an item resolves it too, as soon as it sees the work is done, so you rarely have to.

Notifications

The ⋯ menu in Attention has two switches, both on to start:

• Briefs: a notification when a coordinator posts a brief.
• Urgent Items: a notification right away for an urgent item, from the chat it is about.

The same menu picks the Coordinator: Automatic, or one bot. A bot's closing reply after a brief stays quiet, so you hear about a thing once. A muted chat sends no notifications, but what it raises still shows in Attention.