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The Inbox collects everything that waits for a person’s decision, across every room you can reach: proposals from people, apps and dreaming, exception requests, rules found in documents, access requests and budget requests. You only see items you are allowed to decide, and every decision is recorded as evidence. Who can do this: everyone has an Inbox. What it holds depends on your responsibilities in each room (owner, decider or curator) and on your platform role. See Roles.

Find what waits for you

  • The Inbox icon at the top right carries the number of open items. Select it for a short list grouped by type, newest first. Select a line to open the Inbox with that item selected, or select View all.
  • The chip in the chat. When items wait in the room you are in, a chip next to the input field says, for example, “3 to decide · in Finance”. Select it to open the Inbox for that room.
The count updates when you move to another page or come back to the browser window. Inbox items appear only inside Ainomos; there are no email notifications for them.

The three views

The switch in the top bar of the Inbox page offers three views, each with its count. In To decide, the list is on the left and the selected item on the right. The first item is selected when the page opens.
  • Filter narrows the list by Type or by Rooms with open work. Each active filter shows as a chip; its × removes it.
  • The room picker at the top left starts with All rooms. Pick a room to see only its items. When rooms beneath it have items too, tick Include rooms below to add them. Show all rooms returns to every room.

What can arrive

Room owners can also decide every item of their room that the table gives to deciders or curators. Budget requests, brain access requests and system items follow their own roles.

Decide an item

1

Select the item

The right side shows the record itself: its facts, its full text, the records it affects and, for a proposal, What acceptance does.
2

Add a reason where it is asked for

An exception request needs a Reason to accept and to reject. A budget request and a brain access request need one only to reject.
3

Accept or reject

A green line confirms the decision and the item leaves the list. After you accept a decision draft, the line names its key, with Open to go to it.
For an exception request, Time limit (days) must be at least one day. It starts at the end date the request states, or at 14 days. If the rule itself still waits for approval, approve the rule first. If someone decided the item in the meantime, or you lack the right, the Inbox says so.
Accepting a relation proposal can, in rare cases, leave it in the list with a note that the relation cannot take effect yet. Nothing is lost. Accepting it again later puts it in force.

Decide many entries at once

You decide entries in bulk inside a proposal that holds many of them: status changes, relation batches and imported decisions. Other items are decided one at a time.
  • Tick single entries, or use Select all I may decide. For imported decisions you can also select all of one type, and filter by Type, Enters as and Only what needs attention.
  • Select Accept selected or Reject selected. For imported decisions, Ainomos then says what becomes binding and which decisions of the room the selection ends. You can add a Note (optional), then confirm.
  • Entries you may not decide are greyed out and name the role they need, such as “needs the curator”. The proposal stays in the Inbox until the others have decided their entries.

What the requester sees afterwards

  • Exception requests. Requests shows each request’s state: Requested, Approved, Rejected, Withdrawn, Revoked or Expired. Open one to see who decided, when, and the decision reason. The requester can Withdraw a pending request. Owners can Revoke an approved exception, which ends it at once. An approved exception ends by itself when its time limit runs out. See Exceptions.
  • Knowledge submissions. Submissions shows whether a reviewer accepted or discarded what an app submitted for you.
  • Decision drafts. The record in Knowledge shows its new status.
  • Budget requests. The room’s Context drawer shows an open request. Once accepted, the room’s budget is the amount requested.