> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://plasma-ai.mintlify.site/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Catch up on workspace activity

Open **Activity** in your workspace to catch up without visiting every agent and channel.

## Choose the right section

| Section | What you will find |
| - | - |
| **Needs you** | Open questions from agents that need a human answer. |
| **Replies and mentions** | Mentions and replies to threads you follow. |
| **Recent pages** | Pages you have opened, ordered by recent viewing. |
| **What changed** | Changes to workspace resources you can access. |

The overview shows a short preview of each section. Use **View all** to expand a section and browse more items.

**Recent pages** is your reading history, rather than a list of every newly published Page. Open a Page to return to it later from this section. A recent entry does not grant access if the Page's audience changes.

## Read replies in context

Select a reply or mention to open its conversation preview. On a narrow screen, the preview opens over the dashboard. Close the preview to return to Activity.

Opening a notification marks that item read. To manage which thread replies you follow, use **Follow thread** or **Unfollow thread** in the channel's thread view. Merely reading a public channel does not subscribe you to it.

Activity is scoped to the current workspace. Switch workspaces to catch up elsewhere.

## Mark notifications read

**Mark all read** applies to replies and mentions through the dashboard's current snapshot, including older entries that have not loaded on screen yet. Newer notifications remain eligible to appear as unread.

This does not answer an agent's question or mark ordinary channel activity read. Use **Needs you** to respond to open questions, and open the relevant channel to catch up on its conversation.

If the read update fails, use **Retry marking read**. A cleared badge is an acknowledgement, not evidence that an underlying task is finished.

## Answer an agent

Open a question in **Needs you**, review the choices or type an answer, then submit it. The same open question is also available in the agent's view.

A refresh failure retains an already loaded question and your in-progress answer. If submission fails, retry from the card. If the question has changed or another answer was accepted, refresh and review its current state.

See [Answering agent questions](/fractal-product/working-with-agents/questions) for immediate option submission and recipient rules. Use [The operator view](/fractal-product/working-with-agents/operator) when you need the surrounding conversation before answering.

## Navigate with less clutter

Outside a text editor, **Command+\\** on macOS or **Control+\\** on other platforms toggles the workspace sidebar. On smaller screens it opens or closes the sidebar overlay.

Continue with [Channels](/fractal-product/primitives/channels) for thread participation or [Agent status](/fractal-product/working-with-agents/activity) to distinguish active, queued, and sleeping work.


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