The sidebar
From top to bottom, the sidebar shows:- The room switcher. The room you are in, with its data class. See below.
- New conversation. Starts a new conversation in the chat of the current room. This is the way into the chat from every page.
- The areas. The places you work, listed in the table below.
- The setup card. For owners and curators, a small card such as “2 of 6 set up” with the next step for the room, for example Next: write a rule. It disappears once the room is fully set up.
- Recent. Your conversations in the current room. Click one to open it in the chat.
- Your account. Your name, with the account menu. Below it, your organisation’s footer line and legal links, if it has set them.
An area with pages has an arrow that shows or hides them. In the chat every area is open; inside an area, only that area is.
The rows under Knowledge carry the room’s numbers. A dot means something is new since your last visit, and an amber ! beside Knowledge means something in the room waits for your decision. On an empty kind, owners and curators see add the first, and can choose Not needed here from the row’s menu if the room does not need that kind.
To fold the sidebar away, use the button at the far left of the top bar, or press Ctrl+B (Cmd+B on a Mac). On a phone the sidebar opens as a panel over the page.
The room switcher and the breadcrumb
Most of Ainomos works on one room at a time. The room switcher at the top of the sidebar names that room and shows its data class, such as C1. Open it to see your rooms as a tree, type into Search rooms… to find one, or choose New Room at the bottom to create or request a room. On pages that can look across rooms, such as Usage, Dreaming and the inbox, the list starts with All rooms. The top bar repeats where the room sits, as a breadcrumb: its parent rooms, then the room itself. Click a parent to move up. In the chat, the title of the open conversation ends the breadcrumb.The top bar
On the right of the top bar you find:- Search. The field marked Search …. See below.
- Room details. The sliders icon opens Details of this room: its facts, responsibilities and members, and the settings its owners may change. See Rooms.
- Inbox. The tray icon, with the number of open items across your rooms. It opens a short list where most items need only a yes or a no. View all opens the full inbox. See Inbox.
Search
Search finds decisions, rules, documents, knowledge entries and rooms across every room you can open. It searches only what you could open anyway. Type at least two characters. Results are grouped, with exact matches of a key or title first under Direct hits, and each result shows its type, its room and its status. Binding decisions are marked binding, drafts Draft. Click a result to open it. Press / or Ctrl+K (Cmd+K on a Mac) to jump to the search field, and Escape to close the results. On narrow screens the search field is hidden.The account menu
Click your name at the foot of the sidebar. The menu shows your email address and:Switching language
Ainomos speaks English and German. Open the account menu and choose EN or DE under Switch language. The page changes at once, and Ainomos remembers the choice in this browser. Before you sign in, the sign-in page has the same two buttons. This changes only the interface. The language in which Ainomos writes rules, proposals and drafts is a setting of the organisation. See Branding and language.What depends on your role
Some entries appear only when they apply to you:- Import under Knowledge: owners and curators of the room.
- Decisions and Documents under Knowledge: people who may read them in the room. Your organisation decides whether members without a responsibility may browse them.
- The setup card and add the first: owners and curators of the room.
- Settings in the account menu: platform admins.
- Sign-in security: Ainomos accounts with a second factor.