A tour of the screen

Take one lap around Home cards, Chat, the top bar (Chat · Projects · Folders, Messages, Search, Settings), day and night, and the phone layout. This app has a single screen, and you ask for almost everything through one input box in the middle.

One screen#

You finished your first login and mail connection in Chapter 1, so before the hands-on work, take a lap around the screen. Unlike business systems with many menus and pages, Process GPT Lite works on a single screen. On the left, the things to take care of now pile up as cards (Home). In the middle is your conversation with the assistant, and at the bottom is the input box. Whatever you do, you ask for it in words in the input box, and the result comes back as a card in the conversation.

Home — what to take care of now#

Home is a collection of cards the assistant puts up to say "Take care of this now." You connected the demo mailbox in Chapter 1, so the assistant read the five emails and made cards for the four that need action (it skipped one newsletter).

The English word at the start of each card is what the assistant will do for you. Click a card and the assistant starts that work in Chat (Chapter 5).

When you hover over a card, an × appears at its top right so you can clear it. Home also collects these cards.

Click the house button again and Home folds away, leaving the weekday, date and time in large type in its place. Fold it when you want to focus on the conversation.

Chat — one long conversation#

Chat in the middle is one long conversation. You don't need to make new chat rooms. You can ask about a hotel for a business trip in the middle of talking about Moonlight Coffee, and mail briefs and the results of scheduled tasks also pile up here. Mixing topics is fine because the assistant decides, for each message, which story it follows up on, and keeps it in a separate conversation by topic. Once there are two or more conversations, N conversations · view by context appears at the top of Chat (Chapter 4).

Here are the small marks worth noticing in Chat.

• Date line — Where the day changes, a date like "Wednesday, October 28" appears.
• ··· Read — Appears under the last message you sent. It means the assistant received it.
• Status line — While the assistant works, what it's doing now appears faintly just above the input box, like "Searching" or "Creating document."
• Divider — Work the assistant started on its own, like a "Morning brief" or "Mail · (client) quote request," goes under a divider.

Projects and folders#

The three tabs Chat · Projects · Folders at the top are your workspaces.

Messages, Search, Settings#

Messages is the messenger you use with teammates. Inbox holds outputs teammates shared and @mentions that called you, and Conversations holds one-on-one and group rooms. It's empty for now while you work alone. You'll fill it with Minji Kim and Seoyeon Park in Part 4.

Search finds words in your chat and project messages so far. For example, type seminar and the sentence in the Morning brief that mentions the seminar appears. Click a result to go to that conversation.

Open Settings by clicking the circle at the far right.

Day and night#

The sky in the background isn't a picture. It's the sky at your location right now. The app calculates the sun's height to pick the colors, and it reflects the weather (clouds, rain) too. When the sun sets, the whole screen switches to the night theme.

In Settings › System, you can choose the theme from Auto, Day and Night. Move the Sky preview slider to preview the sky and theme at another time, and click In real time to go back. Check mail › Check now on the same screen reads your mail right away instead of waiting for the next cycle. If you connected the demo mailbox, Get practice email is at the very bottom, where you can pick fictional client emails for the exercises (Chapter 5).

Phones and Android#

On a narrow screen (a phone), the layout changes. Home · Chat · Projects · Folders tabs appear at the top, Home becomes a full-screen tab, and the input box sits below it. Team messages go into a card at the top of Home.

On Android, there's also an app you can use by just entering the server address (demo video). To make the install PC reachable from other devices, see "Ports and addresses" in Chapter 1.

Next#

Now that you know the layout, it's time to hand over some work. In the next chapter, you paste Moonlight Coffee's Store #2 request into the assistant and get a summary table and a checklist back (Chapter 3).