Félagi Desktop — User Guide
Félagi Desktop puts Félagi's chat, issues, docs and meetings in one window on your Mac. It talks to the same Félagi server you use in the browser: everything you do here is there too, and the other way round.
It comes with your organisation's Félagi licence and is downloaded from your own Félagi, under Settings → Félagi Desktop. Builds are offered for Macs with Apple Silicon; where this guide mentions Windows or Linux, it describes the app as it behaves there, for when builds for those follow.
This guide covers everything the app does. Start with Getting started if you're new; the rest can be read in any order.
Contents
Getting going
- Getting started — install, sign in, choose your language
- Finding your way around — the sidebar, the three levels, ⌘K
- Workspaces and servers — several workspaces, several Félagi servers
Talking
- Chat — channels, direct messages, threads, mentions, reactions and files
- Search, unreads and threads — catching up and finding things again
- Later: scheduled messages and reminders — send a message later, be reminded about one
Working
- Issues — my work, the inbox, issue pages, agents, issues from messages
- Mirroring a thread and its issue — one conversation in two places
- Tracking time — the timer, the menu-bar panel, logging time
- Meetings — the calendar, agendas and notes
Writing
- Docs — pages, teamspaces, the editor, comments and history
Help from the app
- The assistant — asking Claude about your work
The app itself
- Notifications and the unread badge
- Working offline
- Settings and themes
- Keyboard shortcuts
- Troubleshooting
For whoever runs your Félagi server
- Notes for administrators — what the server needs for each feature
A few words used throughout
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Server | Your organisation's Félagi, at an address like felagi.company.com. |
| Workspace | A team or company inside Félagi, with its own people, channels, projects and docs. |
| Channel | A conversation for a topic or team, public or private. |
| Direct message | A conversation with one or more people (or an agent), outside any channel. |
| Thread | Replies to one message, kept beside the conversation. |
| Issue | A piece of work, named like ACM-42: its project, status, priority and assignee. |
| Agent | An AI teammate in Félagi that can be given issues and works on them in runs. |
| Page | A document in Docs, in a teamspace, possibly with pages inside it. |
The app is in Norwegian (bokmål) by default and in English when you choose so; this guide uses the English names of things.