Focus

#What is focus?

A flow can open tasks, write records and produce files on every run. The same goes for a card, because an agent's work on it gives birth to other cards, records and files. Those outputs land where they belong. Tasks go to the board, records to a collection, files to the Files screen. The answer to "what did the daily report flow produce this week?" ends up split across three screens.

Focus shows those screens through the lens of a single piece of work. When you focus on a flow or a card, the board, the collection screens and Files list only what came from it. There is no new concept to learn, because focus turns the @flow and @task names you already know into a filter.

#How do I enter focus?

There are three ways, and all three lead to the same place.

• From the keyboard. On any screen, ⌘O (Ctrl+O on Windows and Linux) opens the focus picker. Type the name of the work. Writing @flow. or @task.12 narrows the list but is not required, plain text searches too. The most recent flows and cards are listed as soon as the box opens. Move with the arrow keys and pick with Enter.
• From a card. The ◎ Focus button in the header of the card detail focuses on that card.
• From a flow. The ◎ mark in the flow list and the ◎ Focus button above the flow canvas focus on that flow.

You can only focus on things that produce something, that is flows and cards. Collections and files are the product of some other work and do not give birth to anything themselves, which is why they do not appear in the picker.

#What changes while focused?

• A bar appears at the top. It stays on every screen and carries the name of the work you focused on, how many tasks, records and files came from it, and the ✕ Remove focus button. The bar is always visible on purpose, because a hidden filter would make a half-empty screen look like missing data.
• The headings in the left menu get numbers. Next to every project, Collections and Files, you see how many items that work left there. Zero is shown too, because knowing "nothing here in this focus" beats clicking through to an empty screen. The menu turns into a summary of the work. Which project received tasks and how many records were written are visible at a glance.
• Lists are filtered. The board, the collection screens and Files show only what that work produced. The whole chain is followed, so a file born from the work on a card that the flow opened counts as the flow's product as well.

Focus changes nothing, it only shows. A card you open by hand while focused does not count as a product of the flow you focused on. Who produced what is a record, and focus does not touch it.

#How long does focus last?

Until you remove it. Moving between screens, reloading the page or closing and reopening the browser does not drop it, and when you come back in the same browser the bar is still there. Focus also belongs to the workspace. A focus you set in one workspace is not visible in another, and it is waiting for you when you return.

To remove it, use the ✕ Remove focus button on the bar, the same button in the focus picker, or the button on the work itself, which now reads Focused. While focus is off, not a single focus element is drawn in the app.

#Who is it for?

• Someone checking what a flow produced this week focuses on the flow, reads from the menu numbers how many cards landed in which project, then opens the collection and reads the records.
• Someone who handed a card to an agent and is waiting for the result focuses on the card, and the sub-cards the agent opened, the records it wrote and the files it left gather in one place.
• Do not confuse it with the My tasks and Awaiting approval filters on the board. Those filters show "what is mine", while focus shows "what came from this work". The two can be used together. More in Tasks and Kanban.