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When you return to DevSpec after being away for four or more hours, you are automatically brought up to speed with a catch-up panel at the top of your dashboard. It greets you based on the time of day and the length of your absence, shows you what happened while you were gone, and generates a short AI summary tailored to your situation. You can switch between a personal view ("Mine") and a team view ("Team") to see what your colleagues have been up to. The panel persists across page refreshes until you explicitly dismiss it.

For an ongoing shared “what happened” pulse (AI headlines and themes plus recent activity), open the project Overview — Project pulse. Personal working notes live on the Overview Scratchpad (Now / Later).

The Catch-Up Panel

When you return after four or more hours away, a highlighted panel appears at the very top of your dashboard. It adapts to three scenarios: a casual "Welcome back this afternoon" for same-day returns, a warm "Good morning" briefing when you arrive the next day, or an encouraging "Welcome back — it's been N days" when you have been away for multiple days.

What it shows

• Action items completed while you were away — including those completed by Autopilot on your behalf.
• Unread mentions — anyone who @mentioned you in a session since your last visit.
• New reviews surfaced since your last visit.
• Autopilot failures — items that failed while you were away and need your attention.
• An AI-generated summary paragraph tailored to the scenario — brief for same-day returns, comprehensive for next-day briefings, and high-level for multi-day absences.

Mine and Team views

Use the pill toggle at the top of the panel to switch between "Mine" (your personal activity) and "Team" (what your project collaborators did). The team view shows action items created and completed by others, plus new resources and insights, with names and avatars for attribution. Each view has its own AI summary generated on demand.

The catch-up panel persists across page refreshes. It only disappears when you click "Got it" to dismiss it. Dismissing updates your last-active timestamp so the panel will not reappear until your next qualifying absence.

Dismissing the Panel

Click the "Got it" button in the top-right corner. This does two things: hides the panel for the rest of the day, and tells the server you are now caught up. The panel will not reappear until the system detects you have been away for another four or more hours. Hovering over the button shows "Hides until your next absence" so you know what to expect.

Project pulse (on Overview)

The shared team pulse lives on the project Overview under Project pulse — AI-generated headlines/themes for recent activity, plus a short activity feed. Full history is on Changelog.

Personal working notes are not archived with the pulse — they live on the Overview Scratchpad (Now / Later sticky notes) and stay there until you change them. See Scratchpad.