Views¶

The sidebar takes you to everything Rhizome has to offer. What you see there comes exclusively from groups of which you are a member and from topics to which you have been added individually.

The inbox¶

Your home page and the place where you spend most of your time. The Home sorts all topics for you, based on urgency and recency – you don’t have to decide for yourself where to start.

Tasks¶

Everything that someone has assigned to you or that you have set yourself, all in one place and across all topics. You can group items by deadline, topic or group. You cannot create tasks here intentionally, as each task should be created within the context of a topic.

Saved¶

Topics that you’ve bookmarked because you want to have them to hand at a later date. You add the bookmark in the header of a topic.

Archive¶

All resolved topics, presented as a searchable index: filterable by group, topic type, keyword and time period, with the conclusion shown in a separate column. Alongside this, there is a graph view that displays the topics and their connections as a network.

Groups and project groups¶

Each group has its own view showing all the topics assigned to it. Project groups are displayed as a separate section alongside this – they work in exactly the same way, but are set up for a limited period. You can archive, reactivate and completely delete (project) groups – provided they do not contain any exclusive topics.

The Topics view¶

The topic view is laid out in two columns: a wide column in the centre highlights the currently relevant view. The narrower column in the sidebar displays a second view of your choice: thread, Documents, Decisions and Tasks. These can be maximised at any time, thereby swapping roles. There are also the topic properties, a sort of profile.

Which one is set to the maximum at the start depends on the topic type. In most cases, it is the thread.

Above the views, you can see the details of the topic: its status, who created it and – once the time comes – when it was solved or archived. Next to these are the properties: participants, topic type, deadline, priority, keywords and links to other topics.

One action is highlighted here, namely the next one on the list: making a decision, marking the issue as resolved, or archiving it.

!!! Warning: "Delete topic" Deleting a topic is irreversible. In most cases, archiving is the better option, as an organisation can learn from topics that have failed or been discarded. Deletion is appropriate if a topic has been created by mistake.

Searching and navigating¶

You can access everything via the console] without having to navigate through the sidebar: full-text search across posts, documents and tasks, as well as creating topics, changing settings and switching between views.