Daily Digest
When you return to DevSpec after being away for four or more hours, you are automatically brought up to speed with a catch-up panel at the top of your dashboard. It greets you based on the time of day and the length of your absence, shows you what happened while you were gone, and generates a short AI summary tailored to your situation. You can switch between a personal view ("Mine") and a team view ("Team") to see what your colleagues have been up to. The panel persists across page refreshes until you explicitly dismiss it.
Alongside the catch-up panel, the Daily Digest includes a permanent Journal. Every calendar day, a structured entry is generated covering everything you accomplished. The journal page always shows a live "Today" entry at the top with your current day's activity, even before the midnight digest runs. The journal is the answer to "what did I do yesterday?" — useful for standups, retrospectives, and personal reflection.
The Catch-Up Panel
When you return after four or more hours away, a highlighted panel appears at the very top of your dashboard. It adapts to three scenarios: a casual "Welcome back this afternoon" for same-day returns, a warm "Good morning" briefing when you arrive the next day, or an encouraging "Welcome back — it's been N days" when you have been away for multiple days.
What it shows
- Action items completed while you were away — including those completed by Autopilot on your behalf.
- Unread mentions — anyone who @mentioned you in a session since your last visit.
- New reviews surfaced since your last visit.
- Autopilot failures — items that failed while you were away and need your attention.
- An AI-generated summary paragraph tailored to the scenario — brief for same-day returns, comprehensive for next-day briefings, and high-level for multi-day absences.
Mine and Team views
Use the pill toggle at the top of the panel to switch between "Mine" (your personal activity) and "Team" (what your project collaborators did). The team view shows action items created and completed by others, plus new resources and insights, with names and avatars for attribution. Each view has its own AI summary generated on demand.
The catch-up panel persists across page refreshes. It only disappears when you click "Got it" to dismiss it. Dismissing updates your last-active timestamp so the panel will not reappear until your next qualifying absence.
Dismissing the Panel
Click the "Got it" button in the top-right corner. This does two things: hides the panel for the rest of the day, and tells the server you are now caught up. The panel will not reappear until the system detects you have been away for another four or more hours. Hovering over the button shows "Hides until your next absence" so you know what to expect.
View Your Notes
When you arrive for the first time since yesterday (or after a multi-day absence), the catch-up panel includes a "View your notes" button if you had scratchpad notes from your last session. Clicking it smoothly flips the summary into a read-only view of your notes, so you can quickly remind yourself what you planned to work on today. Click "Back to summary" to return to the catch-up overview. This button only appears when you actually have notes to show.
The Daily Journal
The journal lives at Projects → Journal in the sidebar, with a summary card on your dashboard. The journal page always shows a live "Today" entry at the top with your current day's real-time activity — no waiting for midnight. Below that, stored entries from previous days are listed in reverse chronological order.
What each journal entry contains
- A count of action items opened, completed, and failed during the day.
- Sessions you participated in.
- New reviews surfaced.
- A short AI-generated paragraph summarising your day (free — no credit charge).
- Your personal scratchpad notes for that day (if you wrote any).
Live "Today" entry
The first entry on the journal page is always a live snapshot of today's activity, marked with a green "Live" badge. It updates each time you load the page and does not depend on the midnight digest cron. This means you can see your progress throughout the day.
Copy for standup
Each journal entry has a Copy for Standup button. Clicking it copies a clean plain-text summary to your clipboard. A toggle lets you choose whether to include your personal notes — it is on by default but you can turn it off before copying.
Backfill
If you are using the journal for the first time and have no past entries, click "Generate past 14 days" to create entries from your recent activity. This runs instantly without waiting for the midnight cron.
Viewing Past Journal Entries
Navigate to Projects → Journal from the sidebar to see your full journal history. Entries are listed in reverse chronological order with infinite scroll — 14 days load initially, and more appear as you scroll down. Each entry is expandable to show full details.