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title: "Dashboard"
description: "The home of the active space: activity, projects, and connectivity hygiene."
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# Dashboard

The dashboard is the "home" of the active space — the landing screen at `/`. It brings together two things: **activity** (what changed and when) and an **overview of the knowledge base** (what's actually in it). For a completely empty space (0 notes), the dashboard steps aside and shows an invitation to create your first note — nobody needs a grid of zeros.

At the top sit three switcher tiles. Each carries an icon, a name, and a short metric, and clicking one takes you to a dedicated surface with full lists. The tiles are always visible, and the active one is highlighted in an accent color.

| Tile | Metric | Surface |
|---|---|---|
| Activity | N changes this week | the feed and heatmap |
| Projects | total · active in window | project ranking |
| Hygiene | how many "need repair" | connectivity repair queue |

Below the tiles is a thin summary line `notes · tags · links`; "links" is clickable and leads to the graph.

![The dashboard: switcher tiles, the summary line and the Activity surface](/media/app-dashboard-light.webp)

## Activity

The "Activity" surface is a contribution-graph-style heatmap plus a "what changed" feed.

> [!note] The heatmap shows activity, not file history
> Cells reflect edits that **went through Notarium**, not the source dates of the files. A freshly mounted or just-imported space is empty until people start editing it; an import produces a spike on the day of the import. The rest of the dashboard (stats, projects, hygiene) is always populated — it comes from the index, not from the log.

- **Heatmap** — a grid of weeks over a rolling year (53 weeks up to today). A day's intensity is its number of events, on a 0–4 scale relative to the busiest day in the window. A day is counted in your time zone. Clicking a day expands the event feed for that specific day.
- **The "what changed" feed** — a timeline: the location (breadcrumb `Folder › Subfolder › Title`, each segment a link) and the title with the time on top, the metadata `action · ±size · author` below. The author is shown only if it isn't you — in a personal space the line stays clean.

Activity counts note creation, edits (including external ones and restores), and deletion. If a space contains edits by others, an **Everyone / Mine** toggle appears — a lens for "whose activity am I looking at"; the toggle applies to everything at once — the heatmap, the feed, and the day's expanded events.

## Projects

The "Projects" surface is a full ranking of [projects](/docs/concepts/spaces-and-projects/) by activity over the window (about 90 days by default): "where the work is happening / where to pick up." A row shows the project name, the time of its last activity, and a counter; clicking it leads to the project folder. A note counts toward the deepest project that contains it, so a nested project doesn't inflate the root one.

## Hygiene

The "Hygiene" surface is a connectivity repair queue. Three sections (read-only), each hidden when empty; a healthy graph shows "everything's connected":

- **Broken links** — targets that didn't resolve (`[[Label]]` pointing nowhere) and who links to them, sorted by the number of linking notes. Clicking leads to the first source.
- **Resolved via former name** — links that keep working through old names thanks to aliases: renaming a target doesn't break incoming `[[Old name]]`. Handy to find and update if you want things tidy.
- **Orphans** — graph nodes without a single link: "what's cut off" from the rest of the knowledge base.

The dashboard is live: data rides the shared change stream (SSE), so it updates without a manual page reload. For how the link graph itself works, see [Knowledge graph](/docs/concepts/knowledge-graph/).