Use Home

Home is the daily starting point for work that needs attention

Use Home when you are opening ALLO and need to answer the practical question: what should I look at now? Home brings together recent work, today's items, direct mentions, a compact activity preview, quick actions, and People shortcuts so you do not have to start every session from search or a project list.

Home is intentionally a starting point. It is not the full notification center, full activity feed, full file browser, or full member management area. It shows enough context to help you decide where to go next, then sends you to the right ALLO surface for deeper work.

Availability

Where to find Home

Open ALLO, choose the correct workspace, then select Home from the workspace navigation. If you are already inside a canvas, project, file, or another area, use the main navigation to return to Home.

Home is workspace-aware. Switching workspaces changes the recent work, mentions, activity, People results, and available actions you see.

What Home shows

A good daily workflow

1. Confirm you are in the correct workspace.
2. Scan Recent for the canvas, project, or goal you were already using.
3. Check Today for time-sensitive work before meetings.
4. Open Mentions when someone needs a direct response from you.
5. Use Activity to see what changed while you were away.
6. Use Quick actions when you need to start a blank canvas, import material, open templates, or browse Files.
7. Use People when the next step depends on finding the right member or team.

If you know the exact name of what you need, use Global search instead of scanning Home. Home is excellent for recent and attention-based work; search is better when you have a title, keyword, or person in mind.

What Home is not

Home previews several systems, but it does not replace their full pages.

This split keeps Home useful for daily triage. When you need full control, move from Home into the focused area.

Common scenarios

If you are returning after a meeting, open Home and start with Recent. If the canvas is missing, use Global search or All canvases.

If someone asked you a question in a comment, open Mentions. Select the mention to open the original work item and reply there so the answer stays attached to the work.

If you are preparing for a daily standup, scan Today, Activity, and Recent. Today shows work connected to today's schedule; Activity shows recent changes; Recent gets you back to the items you already opened.

If you need to find the right teammate, open People from Home. Use Members when you know the person, Teams when you know the group, and Org chart when you need broader context.

Permissions and visibility

Home only shows work your account can access in the selected workspace. A missing card can mean the item is in another workspace, you no longer have permission, the item was deleted, or the preview simply does not include enough history. Use the full area before assuming the work is gone.

Some actions are role-gated. For example, member invite or management actions may be hidden if your workspace role does not allow them. That does not mean People is broken. It means viewing the directory and managing access are separate permissions.

Mistakes and recovery