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Start a chat from Home

Ask a question, add context, or choose a suggested action from the Chat-first Home screen.

Written by Topi Järvinen

Home is your personal starting point in In Parallel. It opens as a Chat window where you can ask a question, add context, or choose a suggested action.

Ask from Home

  1. Enter a request in Ask anything.

  2. Use Add context when the request should focus on a particular Workspace, Topic, or document.

  3. Send the request, then follow source links before relying on an important claim.

Useful starting requests include:

  • “What needs my attention today?”

  • “Which two items need a decision first?”

  • “Prepare me for my first meeting next week.”

  • “Run a drift report for the Quartz Project Workspace.”

When a question is too broad, add one Workspace or Topic and ask again.

Use a suggested action

Home can show suggested actions beneath the composer, including Morning briefing, Triage decisions, and Drift report. Select one to start that request in Chat.

Home can also show a shortcut when a new notification or scheduled output is ready. Opening that item is separate from starting a new Chat request.

Check the answer

  • Chat uses only context you are allowed to access.

  • Added context narrows the request; it does not make generated text authoritative.

  • Open source links when you need the full wording, owner, state, or history behind a claim.

  • Ask a focused follow-up when the answer combines unrelated Workspaces or time periods.

Home, Workspace briefings, and contextual Chat

Surface

Best for

Context

Home

Starting a personal Chat or choosing a suggested action

Your accessible context plus anything you add

Workspace briefing

Understanding one Workspace's current situation

The open Workspace

Ask

Asking about the Workspace or page already on screen

The visible page and its Workspace

Home is personal to you. A Workspace briefing is shared context for the team.

The Quartz Project Workspace showing its shared team briefing, freshness state, members, and Run with Claude action

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