Desktop and Web App

The Desktop and Web App is the home of Notis on the web and on your desktop. Unlike Telegram, WhatsApp, iMessage, Slack, or Email — which route Notis through someone else’s app — the Desktop and Web App is Notis-native: a unified inbox, a chat surface, and a control plane all in one, available at app.notis.ai/manage. Every thread Notis has with you — no matter which channel started it — surfaces here. You can read it, jump in to course-correct, or take it over from the keyboard.

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Where to use it

The Desktop and Web App is one channel with three surfaces. They share the same threads, the same authentication, and the same agent context — pick whichever fits the moment.

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On your iPhone or iPad

Open Notis in Safari, tap Share → Add to Home Screen, and open it from the new icon. It opens without browser controls and returns to where you left off. A notification or shared conversation link opens its own destination instead. Completion notifications turn on by themselves: the first time you send a message from the Home Screen app, your iPhone asks whether Notis may notify you. You can switch them off at any time in Account → Settings. In the same place you can add an optional passkey: tap Add a passkey and confirm with Face ID or Touch ID. Next time, tap Sign in with a passkey on the sign-in screen. Your email sign-in code always remains available. Swipe right from the left edge of the screen to open the menu, or to close the conversation you’re reading. Completion alerts cover Manager conversations only. A conversation that belongs to WhatsApp or another channel does not produce a second Notis alert. The icon’s badge counts Manager conversations with a solid green unread indicator—not work that is still running. When you lose your connection, previously opened conversations remain available on that device for up to a week. You can save messages with text, files, photos or recorded voice. They send automatically when Notis is open, connected and signed in, even if they were saved a long time ago. Open Messages waiting to send to check them. Signing out removes unsent messages from that account on the device. Large attachments may need an online connection. If your device cannot save a message, Notis keeps the composer open so you can try again. When an app update is ready, tap Update: messages waiting to send are kept and go out after the update. If you’re typing or talking to Notis, it asks you first, because the update ends a voice session and can lose text you haven’t sent.

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Desktop app

The desktop app wraps the same portal you’d use in the browser, plus a few capabilities that only make sense locally:

• Desktop overlay — a floating Notis chat over any application without leaving what you’re doing.
• Contextual pill — every page you open in the app injects a contextual pill into the chat composer with the current app, view, database, document, automation, or skill. Notis stays aware of what you’re working on without you having to mention it.

Download the build that matches your OS from the portal under Settings → Desktop App.

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Desktop overlay

The overlay is a full-screen transparent window with a single floating card in the middle. The card is the only interactive part — every pixel around it remains click-through, so the app behind it stays usable. Default global hotkeys (configurable in Settings → Shortcuts):

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Modes

Both the inline portal chat and the desktop overlay support two modes. You can swap between them at any time without losing context.

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Intelligence and priority

The chat composer carries two small pickers next to the input: Intelligence and Priority. A pick applies only to the conversation you’re in; other threads and channels are unaffected. Leave a picker untouched and the conversation follows the channel’s default intelligence & priority, which is also where you change the baseline for every new conversation.

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Intelligence

Choose the intelligence you prefer for the agents doing your work:

• Auto (recommended): Notis picks the intelligence level for each agent.
• Low, Medium, High: choose a preferred level. See the levels and rates.

The current level shows as an intelligence meter, an ascending equalizer beside the input. Low lights one bar, Medium three, High all five; Auto shows a sparkle instead of bars.

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Priority

Choose how quickly the agents doing your work are served, independent of intelligence: Standard (default), Fast, or Economy. See processing tiers for what each tier does.

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Keyboard

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Agents

If agent routing is available for your account, your chats in the app follow the Agents selection of the Desktop card on the Channels page. There is no agent picker beside the message box: to use a specific agent, say it in your message, for example “Use Codex for this.” When Codex or Claude has taken over a conversation, a small chip shows which one has it. To give the conversation back to Notis, click the chip and choose Hand back to Notis. See Choose agents for channels and automations.

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Rendering support

The Desktop and Web App renders Notis-native markdown in the conversation body, including named links, inline images, and markdown tables. Uploaded or generated files can still appear as separate attachments when Notis sends them through the thread media carousel.

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Inboxes

The left rail has four built-in views. Each view runs the same channel and source filters across the same underlying threads.

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Filters

Every view supports the same filter primitives. They stack — set them all at once to narrow down to exactly the conversation you’re looking for.

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Channel tabs

Channel tabs sit across the top of the inbox and let you scope the list to a single channel: All channels, Desktop and Web app, Telegram, WhatsApp, iMessage, Slack, or Email. Useful when you want to see only the conversations that started in a particular place.

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Source filter

The source dropdown in the top bar narrows further within the selected channel. Sources include things like a specific automation, a specific Slack workspace, or a specific email address. Set to All by default.

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Search

The top-bar search box runs a full-text search across thread titles and recent message content. It updates as you type and respects the active channel and source filters.

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Waiting for you

Turn on Waiting for you to show every conversation Notis isn’t working on right now, except the ones you archived. Reading a conversation doesn’t remove it. When you reply, it leaves the list while Notis works and comes back when Notis answers. Conversations with a green bar come first: new replies you haven’t opened. Opening one doesn’t move it, so you can go through the list from the top. When you reply, the next conversation opens on its own, or the previous one if you replied to the last. The filter starts off and works alongside channel, source, and search filters. Press W to turn it on or off when you’re not typing. It doesn’t apply to Done.

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Keyboard shortcuts

The portal is built to be driven from the keyboard, the same way you’d work an email client. Press ? from anywhere to see the full list. J and K loop around the list: J on the last thread takes you back to the first, and K on the first takes you to the last. That holds for whatever list is showing, including Waiting for you. Esc always steps back one layer at a time: it closes the popup, assistant or selection in front first, and once nothing is left open it takes you from any page, including an app, back to your Inbox. It never leaves a page while you’re typing in a field, or while a new or edited automation or Skill isn’t saved yet, and it never ends a voice conversation: a panel with a call in progress stays open.

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Tool catalog and command search

The portal search bar can surface more than threads. Use it to browse the tools available to Notis, grouped by category and source:

• Built-in Notis tools
• Connected integration tools
• Custom MCP tools
• Installed skills
• Apps, views, databases, documents, and automations

Use @ to attach an item as context (an app, view, database, document, page) and / to give Notis an instruction (a skill, automation, or built-in command). The two are not interchangeable: @docs/spec adds the doc to the conversation; /summarize tells Notis what to do with it.

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Working a thread

Once you open a thread, every action you’d want lives in the chat panel:

• Reply from the portal — type or use voice. If the thread originated on Telegram, WhatsApp, iMessage, Slack, or Email, your reply routes back through the original channel automatically — the other person never sees it as portal-originated.
• Star — pin the thread to the Starred view.
• Archive — mark the thread Done. It returns to the Inbox if a new message arrives.
• Multi-select — shift-click or drag-select rows in the inbox, then bulk-archive or bulk-star from the action bar.
• Agent timeline — every Notis interaction expands to show the tool calls Notis made, the files it touched, and the response — useful for debugging and auditing.
• @ for context, / for instructions — @ pulls an app, view, database, or document into the conversation as context. / invokes a skill, automation, or built-in command as an instruction. Mix them freely: @db/leads /summarize.

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Manage conversations from another conversation

You can ask Notis to check or manage your other conversations from any channel, including voice. Try “What’s still running?” or “Does anything need an answer from me?” Notis can look at saved progress without interrupting the work or marking the conversation as read. Ask it to pass on a correction, answer a specific question, star a conversation, or archive a selection. You can also rename conversations, mark them read or unread, change their settings, stop work, or delete them. Archiving does not stop work. Deleting stops work belonging to that conversation and ends an attached voice call, but leaves independent conversations running. A new task opens in Manager unless you choose another channel. Its reply stays in that conversation, and Notis can also report the result where you asked. Messages passed between conversations show their source; select the source link to return to the original conversation when one is available.

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Pairs with

• Channels compared — see how the Desktop and Web App differs from Telegram, WhatsApp, iMessage, Slack, and Email.
• Voice Mode — full reference for the real-time voice channel used inside the portal and overlay.
• Automations — every scheduled and webhook run lands in its automation view.