Huddles

Huddles covers the two shapes a quick conversation takes. Live is a set of audio rooms you can drop into without scheduling anything, for the question that takes ninety seconds and would otherwise become a meeting. Recordings is the asynchronous half: record your screen, browse what colleagues have recorded, and play one back with comments anchored to the moment they refer to. Between them they cover a team spread across time zones, where the same conversation has to work both live and hours later.

• Live audio rooms you can start or drop into without scheduling anything
• Screen recordings for the same conversation held asynchronously
• Comments anchored to a moment in a recording, so feedback points at what it is about
• A browsable library, so a recording is findable later rather than lost in a chat thread

• A room is live. Nothing said in it is captured unless somebody records, and a room is not a meeting record.
• A recording is kept, and by default any member of your workspace can watch it. Sharing a link lets anyone who has the link watch it, so treat a recording as you would anything else you publish. Withdrawing the link returns the recording to the visibility it had before it was shared, so a private recording stays private.
• Audio and screen capture need browser permission, and a browser that refuses is a browser setting rather than an Atlas fault.
• For a meeting that needs an agenda, minutes and action items, use Meetings. Huddles is deliberately the lighter of the two.

1. 1Open Huddles. Live shows the rooms currently open.
2. 2Start a room, or drop into one that is already running.
3. 3For a conversation that does not need everybody at once, switch to Recordings and record your screen instead.
4. 4Watch a colleague's recording and leave a comment anchored to the moment you are talking about.

Is a huddle recorded?

Not unless somebody records it. A live room is a conversation, not a meeting record. Use Meetings when the conversation needs a record.

When should I use Meetings instead?

When it needs an agenda, minutes, or action items that become tasks. Huddles is the lighter tool on purpose.

Why can nobody hear me?

Almost always a browser permission. Audio and screen capture require your browser to grant access, and that is a setting Atlas cannot change for you.

What is a time-anchored comment?

A comment attached to a moment in the recording, so feedback points at the exact thing it is about rather than describing where to look.