Today

Today is the page Groupthink opens on. It shows your day: who you are meeting and what to know about them, meetings you still need to debrief, what you owe people, and who you are falling behind with. You can also step back and forward through your calendar a day, a week, or a month at a time.

These steps cover the web app at app.groupthink.com and the Groupthink desktop app, which show the same page.

Getting there

Click Today at the top of the left sidebar, or go to app.groupthink.com/today.

Today replaced three older pages. The Daily Overview, Upcoming, and calendar pages are no longer in the sidebar, and their old addresses (/intelligence, /dashboard and /calendar) now send you to Today. Past meetings moved to Recaps in the sidebar.

The top of the page greets you by name with the date underneath.

Moving between days, weeks and months

A bar across the top of the page controls what you are looking at.

Control	What it does
‹ and ›	Step back or forward one day, one week, or one month, depending on the view.
Day / Week / Month	Switch views.
Today	Jump back to today's day view from anywhere.

The label next to the arrows tells you where you are: Today, Yesterday, Tomorrow, or a date in the day view; This week or a date range in the week view; the month name in the month view.

The address in your browser updates as you move, so you can bookmark or share a link to a particular day or week.

The day view: today

This is what you see when you first open the page. The first load of the morning can take a little while, because Groupthink builds your brief fresh when you ask for it. While it works, a Gathering today's brief panel shows each part as it arrives. If it is slow, the panel says Taking longer than usual. Still working on it.

From top to bottom:

Story of the day and today's people

A short paragraph about the shape of your day, followed by the faces of everyone you are meeting today. Click a name to open that person's page. The paragraph needs an active trial or paid plan.

Above the paragraph is a one-line title for the day, such as "5 meetings, 2 external · 1 work block · investor prep and hiring". The meeting and work-block counts come from your calendar and show on every plan. The theme at the end comes with the paragraph, so it can arrive a moment later. The title is left out on a day with no meetings and no work blocks.

When someone on today's calendar is a person you have never spoken to, a line under the title names them, with their company and the time you meet: "Two people on your calendar today you have never spoken to: Benjamin Johnson (Linq) at 10:00 AM and David Booth (a16z) at 2:30 PM." Their faces in the row below carry a First meeting tag. Someone Groupthink saved as a contact from the calendar invite still counts as a first meeting until you have actually met.

Prep for today

One card per meeting on today's calendar, with who is in it, what you last discussed, and what is still open between you. Click a card to expand it.

A meeting with someone you have never spoken to shows First meeting next to its title. Hover it to see who. Expanded, that person's part of the card leads with what Groupthink found about them on the web. When it found nothing, it says Nothing on record yet and offers Search LinkedIn and Search the web, which open a search for their name and company in a new tab. Meeting Prep in Your Daily Brief explains what a prep card contains and which parts need a paid plan.

Each card has a row of quick actions:

• Add note adds a prep note for the meeting.
• Copy link copies the Groupthink meeting link.
• Mark prepped marks the meeting as prepped. Click it again to undo.
• Reschedule appears on a one-off event you organized whose time has passed. See Move an Event to Another Day.
• Dismiss hides the card from today's brief.
• Discuss with Advisor appears on a block with only you on it. See Talk a block through with the Advisor.
• Open agenda opens the meeting's agenda.

A card you have moved from Groupthink shows Moved 1×, Moved 2× and so on. See How many times a block has moved.

Next to Open agenda, each card has the meeting's notetaker control. Add Notetaker shows when no notetaker is set for the meeting. When one is set, the card says so with your notetaker's name and the call app, for example Dana Lee's notetaker will join Zoom, and a ⋮ button lets you swap or remove it. The name is your name followed by "'s notetaker", or the Display name you set in Settings, Meetings, Bot identity. A meeting that has ended has no control. See Add Groupthink to Specific Meetings and Remove Groupthink from a Meeting.

An event that Groupthink reads as in person, and that has no video link, has nothing to join. Its card shows the place from the calendar event's location, or In person when the event has no location, and does not offer Add Notetaker. If a notetaker is already set for the event, its ⋮ button stays so you can remove it. If the event is a call after all, click Mark as a call next to the place. The line changes to You marked this as a call. with an Undo link, and Add Notetaker comes back.

An event that reads as in person and does have a video link is asked about instead. The line reads Not a conference call? with a Switch it to an in-person meeting. link. You can ignore it.

Talk a block through with the Advisor

A block on today with only you on it has a Discuss with Advisor button in its row of buttons. It shows on task blocks and on blocks like "Lunch with Sam", before the block starts, while it runs and after it ends. A meeting with other people, an all-day event or a block of six hours or more, a block you dismissed or cleared, and a block on another day don't have one.

Click it and the Advisor panel opens already talking about that block, headed About "Write the investor update". The Advisor speaks first:

• If you've moved the block in Groupthink before, it says so, such as "Write the investor update" has moved once already. Do you still want to do it?
• Otherwise it asks What do you want to do about "Write the investor update"?

It can move the block, take it off Today, or help you find a smaller first step. A move or taking it off Today shows up as a card with Confirm, and nothing changes until you click it. Nobody is emailed, because only you are on the block. Follow-up questions stay about that block. New conversation takes you back to the Advisor for all your relationships.

If the block was deleted from your calendar since Today loaded, the Advisor says so, and you can close the panel.

Task blocks: Clear them through the day

A block on your calendar that only you are on, and that you made, is a task, not a meeting. Think "Travel" or "Answer today's re-plan questions", including blocks an assistant adds to your calendar for you. Groupthink shows these with one Clear button instead of the meeting buttons, and a grey line saying why it reads as a task, for example "Only you are on this, and you made it." A video link on the block does not change this. A block whose title names someone, like "Lunch with Sam", stays a meeting.

• Clear marks the block done for today. The card moves into a Cleared row at the bottom of the list, and a line reading Cleared and the block's name, with Undo, shows for a few seconds. Clearing never changes or deletes the event on your calendar.
• Cleared (3) at the bottom of the list opens to show what you cleared, each with Undo.
• Above the cards, a line such as 3 of 5 cleared and a thin bar count only task blocks. When every one is cleared it reads Board clear.
• Overdue shows on a task block that is past its end time and not cleared. Overdue blocks move to the top of the list, with two buttons: Move to later, which opens the same choices as Reschedule (see Move an Event to Another Day) and changes the event on your calendar, and Clear.

If someone else has been added to a block since the page loaded, Clear says "This can't be cleared now. Someone else may be on it. Refresh to see it as it is." On another day, a task block is labelled Task, and one you cleared is labelled Task · Cleared and shown faded.

Clearing is saved to your account, so a block you clear on the web shows as cleared in the desktop app and on iPhone.

Groupthink never starts taking notes on a task block by itself, and a task block does not show as a meeting in progress. You can still open its agenda page and start notes yourself. See Auto-Start Recording.

An all-day event, like a birthday, a holiday or time out of office, is not a meeting, so it gets one short row instead of a card. The row shows the event's title, the words All day, the calendar it came from, and the faces of anyone else on it. It does not expand, and it has no prep and no quick actions.

If you have no calendar connected, this section offers to connect one instead. When your pending list has something in it, that list comes first and the offer shrinks to one line below it, with a Connect a calendar button. The button opens Today > Calendar & booking.

Did this happen?

Once a meeting is over, its card may ask Did this happen? with two buttons:

• I went counts the meeting as contact with the people on it (the card confirms who, for example "Counted as contact with Theo."), and opens a box where you can jot down how it went. This matters most for in-person meetings, which never produce a transcript.
• Didn't happen records that it did not take place, so it does not count as contact.

Click Change to switch your answer, or click the selected answer again to clear it. Groupthink only asks about meetings where the answer is useful: ones that have ended, have a named person on them, are not a recurring internal block, and have nothing recorded yet.

Plans whose day has come

A plan is something you logged with a date that was still ahead, like dinner on the 19th. See Log an Interaction. From the start of the plan's day, a second Did this happen? section appears in your pending list, with one row per plan. Each row shows what the plan was, who it was with, the day, and how you were going to be in touch.

• Happened counts the plan as contact with everyone on it. The row then reads Marked as happened. and opens a box, How did it go?, where you can write a debrief. Click Save debrief to file it as a note on the plan, or Not now to skip it.
• Didn't happen records that it fell through. The row reads Marked as didn't happen. It doesn't count as contact. Click Pick a new date to move the plan to a day ahead, which makes it a plan again.
• Undo takes your answer back and asks the question again.

One click is enough. There is no confirm step, because you can undo it. The one answer you cannot undo is a plan with a debrief written on it. The row then says This plan has a debrief written on it, so it stays marked as happened.

An answered row stays on the page until you reload, so you can still undo it. Groupthink lists up to 10 plans, newest first, and stops asking here once a plan is more than 30 days old. An older plan can still be answered on the person's page. Groupthink never emails, texts or notifies anyone about a plan, including you.

Your pending list

Below the prep cards is everything waiting on you. Each section only appears when it has something in it.

Section	What is in it
Debriefs needed	Meetings that ended without a debrief from you. Click Debrief now to write one right there, or pick Nothing notable in that box to clear it without writing anything. Open meeting takes you to the full meeting.
How did it go?	In-person events from the last few days that nothing recorded, with people you know on them, asked about the morning after. Each row asks a question like How did it go with Lindsay and Pat? and shows the event, the day and the people. Click Debrief now to write how it went right there, or pick Nothing notable in that box to clear it without writing anything. It didn't happen records that it did not take place. After you save a debrief, the row stays to show what it found; see After an in-person debrief. Any other answer takes the row off the list.
Prep for tomorrow	Tomorrow's meetings, with the important ones marked Important. Click one to open its prep.
What you owe	Things you said you'd do for someone, from your meetings and notes. Only your own commitments are listed, never what someone owes you. Each row says who it is for and when it is due, or how long it has been open. Click Done to mark it done; the row leaves right away. If that fails, the row comes back with We couldn't mark that done. Try again.
Open threads	Topics still open with the people you track, whoever owes the next move. A row can be marked Time-sensitive. Each row has a Draft and a Mark covered button. See Acting on an open thread.
Waiting on you	Texts from people in your contacts that asked you a question, asked you to do something, or mentioned a time, and that you haven't answered after about two hours. Each row quotes the line. Click Reply in Messages to open the conversation (on a Mac, iPhone or iPad), or Not needed to hide it. See Texts that are waiting on you.
Relationship check-ins	People you are overdue with or coming due with, based on the cadence you set. See Staying in Touch for how this list works.
Coming up	Birthdays and anniversaries in the next two weeks. If you noted a gift idea for that person, the date shows three weeks ahead instead, with the idea listed under it (You noted: and where it came up). Click an idea to open the Gifts section of their page, where you mark it given. Holidays appears from late November for anyone you noted a gift idea for, for the holidays or for any occasion.
This week added up	A look back at what moved across your relationships over the past week, such as threads covered and touchpoints made.

If nothing is waiting, you see Nothing pending right now. instead.

After an in-person debrief

When you save a debrief under How did it go?, the row stays. It shows Reading your note for anything to follow up on… for a few seconds, then what your note mentioned, under To follow up on:

• Something you owe someone, such as "Send Pat the article.", marked Owed, with Pat Kim. Click Confirm to add it to that person's open threads.
• A plan to meet again, such as "Get together again soon", with the day Groupthink suggests and your own words for when, for example Meet again with Lindsay Ortiz, suggested Sun, Oct 25 (you said "soon"). Click Confirm to plan a touchpoint with them on that day.

Dismiss removes one for good. Editing the note never brings it back. Confirming sends nothing to anyone and puts nothing on your calendar. If the note had nothing to follow up on, the row says Nothing to follow up on in that note.

Under that, Texts from after lists the text conversations you've added with any of those people in the 48 hours after the event. Click a name to open that person. If there are none yet, click Add the texts. A paste box opens on the row, set to the people from the event and the day it happened. Under Whose texts are these?, everyone from the event is ticked, so a group thread is filed under each of them. Untick anyone the thread isn't with, or tick Someone else to type a phone number instead. The date under When was this? is the day of the event; change it if the texts came later. Paste the thread and click Capture conversation. The confirmation names everyone it was matched to, and the thread shows under Texts from after. Click Close when you're done.

Click Done to clear the row. Anything you leave unanswered comes back on Today: each time you open it, How did it go? lists a row headed From your debrief for each debrief with a follow-up still waiting, showing the event, the day and the people, with the same Confirm, Dismiss and Add the texts. This row has no Done. It goes once you answer its last follow-up. Up to ten debriefs are listed at a time, newest event first. When the event has a meeting page, the follow-ups are also listed there under Your private notes.

Acting on an open thread

You can deal with an open thread without leaving Today. Each row under Open threads has two buttons, and both open right under the row:

• Draft starts writing a message about that thread right away. It's a text if the person has a phone number and you're on a Mac, iPhone, iPad or Android phone, and an email otherwise; the button's icon shows which. To write the other one, click Draft an email instead or Draft a text instead under the draft. Both drafts are kept, so you can switch back without losing your edits. Edit the message, then send it yourself. Groupthink never sends it for you. To try another tone, type it under Tone hint for Regenerate and click Regenerate. Click Draft again to fold the draft away; it's still there when you reopen it. See Draft a note before you reach out.
• Mark covered closes the thread. You can write what came of it under Outcome (optional), then click Save. The row then leaves Today.

Click the text of a row to open that person's page at their Open threads section.

Texts that are waiting on you

The Waiting on you section only appears if your Mac syncs your Messages conversations to Groupthink. See Import Your Messages History on a Mac.

• How a text gets here. Groupthink checks the other person's messages for a question, an ask ("can you…", "let me know"), or a time ("tomorrow", "at 3"). It uses simple rules, not AI, and only reads the conversations you chose to sync. A text shows up once it has gone about two hours without a reply from you. You see one row per person, with their most recent unanswered line.
• Replying clears it. Answer from any device. The row goes away the next time your Mac syncs your texts.
• Not needed hides the row right away, along with that person's earlier unanswered lines. If hiding fails, the row comes back with a message saying so.
• Reply in Messages only appears on a Mac, iPhone or iPad, where the Messages app exists. On Windows the row still shows, without the button.
• A row stays for up to three days. Groupthink never texts or emails you about these.

Who is this?

Who is this? lists phone numbers you text that are not on any of your contacts. It sits under your pending list. It only appears if you import conversations from Messages on a Mac, and only when there is a number to name. See Import Your Messages History on a Mac.

• Which numbers show. Numbers from the conversations your Mac syncs that are not filed under anyone, with texts from this month or the two before it. You see up to 10, starting with the ones you text most. Short numbers that are not a person, like the ones a bank texts from, are left out.
• What a row says. The number, then a line like You text this number about 12 times a month · last text Oct 3.
• Who is this? on a row opens a search box. Pick one of your contacts, or type a new name and choose Create new contact: with that name.
• Show recent texts on a row opens your last five texts with that number, oldest first, each with its time, so you can tell who it is before you name it. Yours are on the right. Hide recent texts closes them. If Groupthink has no texts with that number to show, the row says so and suggests syncing Messages from your Mac. A number known only from your Mac's counts has no texts to show: Groupthink has how often you text it, not the texts themselves.
• Not someone I track hides the number. Groupthink does not ask about it again.

When you name a number, Groupthink saves it on that contact and confirms with a line like Saved (415) 555-0123 on Sam Lee. Their texts file to them from now on. Texts your Mac already synced from that number are filed under that person too, which can take a moment. A number can be on only one person. If another contact already has it, the row says so and nothing is saved.

Some rows come with a suggested name, so one click is enough:

• A person you already named. If you filed an older conversation from this number under one of your contacts, the row offers that person back: This number is probably Karlie Shields. Under it the row says why: You filed texts with this number under Karlie Shields on Sep 8. Click It's Karlie Shields to confirm.
• A name from your texts. If the texts themselves say who it is, the row reads This number is probably Sam Lee or This number might be Sam Lee, with the line it came from: From your texts: "hey it's Sam Lee". Only you see that line. Click It's Sam Lee if Sam is already a contact, or Add Sam Lee as a contact if not. This suggestion can show up a little after the list first loads.
• A name from a group text. A number you only text in a group you picked can get a suggestion too. The row says who used the name and when: In your group text on Oct 3, this number wrote: "hey all, it's Sam", or Afshin Sarvestani called them Sam in your group text on Oct 3: "thanks Sam!". Only a number that named itself reads as probably. A name someone else in the group used reads as might be, because they could have meant someone else.
• One of several people. When the name is a first name more than one of your contacts has, Groupthink does not pick for you. The row reads This number might be one of your contacts named Sam. Who is it?, with a button for each, like It's Sam Lee and It's Sam Park. Click the right one, or Someone else to search.
• Not Sam turns the suggestion down for good. The row stays, so you can still name the number yourself. Someone else opens the search box.
• On the desktop app for Mac, a name from Contacts on that Mac comes first: Contacts on this Mac says this is Maya Okonjo. The button next to it reads It's Maya Okonjo when one of your contacts has that name, Add Maya Okonjo as a contact when none does, and Pick which Maya Okonjo when more than one does. The name is read on your Mac and is sent to Groupthink only if you click the button.

On the desktop app for Mac, a link under the list reads Add phone numbers from your Mac's Contacts. It opens the review that adds many numbers at once. See Import Your Messages History on a Mac.

The same question is asked in Conversations, on the row of each text conversation that has no name.

Nothing is saved until you click. A row marked Apple ID is an email address instead of a phone number. Naming it adds the address to the contact as an email, and their texts file to them after your Mac's next sync.

Further down

The page also shows Recently met (people you met in the past 7 days) and Time to reconnect (relationships that have gone quiet based on your cadence). A few extra cards appear only when they have something to show, such as a look-ahead at later meetings or a weekly summary of what Groupthink captured. An Add contact button sits at the bottom.

A brand-new account

If Groupthink has nothing to work from yet, Today shows a single setup card in place of all of the above. It asks you to connect a calendar, or, if your calendar is already connected, to Add your first contact or Paste your last meeting's notes.

The day view: other days

Step to any other day and you see that day's calendar instead of the brief.

• Future days show each meeting with a Start prep or Review prep button once the meeting is within 48 hours.
• Past days show a View recap link for meetings Groupthink captured, or Open agenda for meetings that have an agenda but no recap. Past meetings can also ask Did this happen?, and an event you organized that looks like it never happened can be moved. See Move an Event to Another Day.

Meetings also carry a small status chip when there is something to say:

Chip	Meaning
Prep ready	A future meeting that already has prep.
Happening now	The meeting is in progress.
Needs debrief	The meeting ran but you have not debriefed it yet. Click the chip to write one. Recurring meetings do not get this chip, so a weekly standup does not nag you every week.
Debriefed	You have debriefed this meeting.

A plain scheduled meeting has no chip.

The week view

Weeks run Monday to Sunday.

• A short paragraph at the top sums up the week, with a Based on list showing what it drew from. On a thin week it is marked Not much on the record this week.
• Arcs this week lists everyone you connected with that week, from meetings and anything you logged, ranked by how often. Each row has a strip of seven squares showing which days you were in touch, a count of touches, and a Falling behind or Overdue chip if you are behind on your cadence with them.
• Day by day lists each day's meetings with their times and status chips.

The month view

A calendar grid, Monday to Sunday, with today outlined. Each day shows up to three meetings, usually with a chip naming someone on each, and a +N more line when there are more. Click any day to open it in the day view.

Printing Today

Open Today in your web browser and press ⌘P (Mac) or Ctrl+P (Windows), or use your browser's Print command. The printout is laid out for paper rather than copied from the screen:

• The sidebar, buttons, date controls and extra cards are left off.
• Colors and shaded boxes become plain black on white.
• Items in What you owe and Open threads get a checkbox you can tick with a pen.
• A blank margin runs down the right side for handwritten notes.
• The top of the page shows today's date and the time you printed it.

The printed heading always shows today's date, so printing works best from the today view.

Frequently Asked Questions

Where did Daily Overview, Upcoming, and the calendar go?

They are all part of Today now. Your day's brief is the today view, your upcoming meetings are a click of › away, and the calendar is the Week and Month views. Old bookmarks still work and land on Today.

Is this the same as the Daily Brief email?

No. Today shows a shorter version of the prep in the email: the quick tip, recent details, and open threads for the people in each meeting. The fuller prep is on the meeting's agenda page. The Daily Brief is an evening email about tomorrow's meetings and today's recaps. Today is the live version in the app, and it also covers debriefs, open threads, and check-ins, which the email does not. If you want Today itself in your inbox, turn on the Daily Page email, which sends this page each morning at a time you pick. See The Daily Page Email.

Why is my Relationship check-ins list empty?

It only includes people who have a cadence set. See Staying in Touch to set one.

Why does my brief say it could not load?

Click Try again. If one part of the page is unavailable, the rest still loads.

Getting Help

Questions about Today? Email support@groupthink.com.