Your Space's home page is a short checklist — who is due, what needs confirming, what is waiting for review, whose birthday has just gone by — with a look at the week ahead and the two weeks behind.

The dashboard is where Longtime does its reminding. It is the page you land on when you open a Space, and the logo at the top of every page brings you back to it.

It is built for a few minutes at a time: work down the checklist, and when every panel shows a green check there is nothing you need to do.

The checklist

Four panels sit at the top. Each expands when it has something in it, and shows a check when it is clear.

Reconnect

People whose cadence is due — the gap since your last connection has reached what you meant it to be, or will by tomorrow — and nothing is planned with them yet. Someone with a cadence you have not logged a connection with yet shows here straight away. Open someone to log a connection or plan one.

When it is clear: "No one is overdue; great!"

Confirm connections

Connections that were planned for a time that has now passed, still waiting for you to say whether they happened. Each one asks "Did this happen?":

Answering yes confirms it. The arrow beside yes lets you say you want to add more, which opens the interview so you can say how it went; saving there confirms it.
Answering no lets you reschedule it to a new time, or mark it canceled, which removes it straight away.

Confirming matters because until you do, a planned connection does not count as having happened — so it will not reset anyone's cadence, and they may show as overdue when they are not. See Connections.

Suggestions

How many suggestions are waiting — from a calendar feed, an import or the interview — with the first few listed and a link to your Suggestions inbox to review them. Snoozed suggestions are counted separately and come back on their own.

Birthdays

Birthdays from the last seven days that you have not acknowledged yet. Each one asks "Did you send birthday wishes?" — and answering yes and saying how (by text, email, phone or in person) logs a connection for you automatically. Answering no lets you keep the reminder, because you are planning to, or skip it for this year. See Birthdays.

Looking ahead and looking back

Below the checklist, two short lists:

Looking ahead — connections scheduled over the next week, with a link that opens Connections filtered to the future.
Looking back — connections logged over the last two weeks, with a link that opens Connections filtered to the past.

The totals

Along the bottom: how many people the Space holds out of its 300 (each member's own record counts as one), and how many connections, circles and users it holds. The people and connections totals link to their lists.

It keeps itself current

When a calendar feed syncs while the dashboard is open, the panels update without a reload. There is nothing to refresh.

Before the dashboard appears

In a brand-new Space, the dashboard shows two first-run steps instead — adding your first person and logging your first connection. The checklist takes over once both are done, and so do the parts of Longtime these pages point to from the top of the screen — the share button, the Suggestions tray, and People, Connections and Bridges in the menu. See Signing up.