Desktop social tabs

What it is

The desktop app has three surfaces in the rail on the left of the window: System (your files and player), Aden (the web app) and Links. Members of an organisation also get Organisations (the web app's /org, or straight into the one org they are in) and Aden staff get Admin (/admin), each lit while you are on that part of the web app. Links holds every external page: socials (Instagram, TikTok, X, …), artist back-offices (Spotify for Artists, YouTube Studio, …), and pages you add yourself. They live in Links' own sidebar.

The rail is yours. Under Links, pin whatever your team works in: a Links page, a network's chats, a System page, an Aden page, a file on this computer (the team's track sheet in Excel) or any link. Add one from the + at the bottom of the pins (it searches everything), from a page's "…" or right-click menu (Pin to rail, Pin chats to rail), or with "Pin to rail" in ⌘K.

• Pages, chats and links open as an app of their own: full width, with the Links sidebar out of the way. A chats pin carries a small chat badge and opens the inbox with only that network's conversations. Clicking Links, System or Aden brings the sidebar back.
• The rail lights the pin while its page is on screen, not the surface it opens in: an Aden page pin rather than Aden (and for the pages under it), a System page pin rather than System.
• Right-click a pin to rename it, give it an icon and color of its own, or unpin it.
• Websites as tabs: type an address into the + (artistspace.com) and pick "Open … as a tab": it is pinned and opens at once in its own web view, keeping its sign-in, like a browser tab you can rename and recolor. It lives on the rail only, not under Your pages in the Links sidebar. Every link on one site shares that site's sign-in, so pinning a second Claude or ChatGPT conversation never asks you to log in again, and each pin keeps a tab of its own, so switching between them never reloads. Unpinning the last link on a site removes the page it opened in.
• Several accounts on one site: right-click a website pin, on either rail, and pick Add another account, type the address in the rail's + and pick Open claude.ai with another account, or type "add another Claude account" in ⌘K. The site is pinned again beside it ("Claude 2") under a login of its own and opens to sign in. Rename it ("Claude work") from its menu, and move both to the top rail beside Home to switch with one click.
• Every account in one sidebar: with Claude pinned under two logins, opening either one also opens the other in the background, and each Claude page's own sidebar lists the other account's sessions under its name ("Claude 2"), in Claude's own rows with their Running and Unread dots. Picking one brings up that account's page on the session, so the two read as one Claude. The rows are copies of the page's own (aden-feed-foreign in main/social-feed-bridge.js): a Claude redesign can drop them, and each page then shows its own sessions only.
• T3 Code: pick T3 Code in the rail's + (or ⌘K) to pin the T3 coding-agent app. Nothing runs until then. Its tab starts t3 on this computer (installed, else through npx or bunx, port 3773), or joins a T3 server already running, and signs the tab in without T3's pairing screen (src/main/t3-code.ts). The server keeps running behind other pages while Aden is open; closing or unpinning the tab, or quitting, stops it.
• A file pin wears the icon the OS shows for that file (Excel's for an .xlsx), and a website pin wears the site's own icon, until you choose one. The site icon is read by the desktop app from the site's page and kept for the session only.
• Cloud pages (Google Drive, Google Sheets, Dropbox, OneDrive, Box, iCloud Drive) sit in the Links catalog beside the socials, each signed in once in its own session, and pin like any page.
• Folders: group pins in a folder, and folders in folders. Make one from the + ("A folder"), from a pin's right-click Move to folder, or with the folder icon inside an open folder. Hover a folder to see what's in it; click it to keep it open and search everything inside, at any depth, by name or address. Typing a web address there adds that site to the folder. Each row's "…" renames it, moves it to another folder or out, or removes it. Right-click a folder to rename it and give it an icon and color, or delete it (what it held moves up a level). Pins inside folders are found in ⌘K too.
• Share a folder by link: right-click any folder, Copy link or email…: the same aden.space/f/… link a Links folder shares, the folder carried in the link (no table). Its sites and Aden pages go, nested ones flattened into the one folder; files on this computer stay behind. Type an email there to open a new mail with the link. Opening the link adds it as a folder on the receiver's rail (target: 'rail' in the code).
• Shared folders: right-click one of your folders and Share with the active team or one of your organisations: it leaves your rail and shows on everyone's in it, under their own pins, with the team's avatar on its corner. Its owners and admins change it; everyone else sees it with the editing rows disabled and the reason why. Stop sharing brings it back to your own rail. Anyone can Hide from my rail (this computer only) and show it again from the +. Files on this computer stay on your rail when their folder is shared. Shared folders live in the team's or organisation's sidebar_layouts.desktopRail (/api/v1/desktop-rail/shared), next to the sidebar layouts its admins set; no table of their own.
• The rail lives on your account (users.app_preferences.desktop_rail), so it survives signing out, switching teams and a new computer. A file pin opens the same path on every computer; where the file is not, it says so.
• Onboarding has a step to pin the usual ones (Sheets, Drive, Dropbox, WhatsApp and Instagram chats, Samples). The rail sits on screen for the tour's rail steps, and each pin lands on it as you pick it.

Each page can be open several times, once per account, and every account keeps its own login session, belonging to the team it was opened under.

Using it

• Open a page: go to Custom, find it in the sidebar (search at the top), and click it.
• Add another account: hover the page's folder in the "Open" list and click the plus. It opens a second session of the same page, signed out, so you can log in as another account.
• Add a page: New at the bottom of the sidebar opens the catalog, searchable. Pick a platform to open it (a hidden row comes back this way), or paste an address to add it as your own page. "New page with its own name, color and icon" leads to the full form. Its chevron also holds New folder.
• The start screen: with no page or chat open, Links shows the six latest conversations from Inbox (hidden ones left out, right-click for the same menu as Inbox), then the Start new conversation field, then the pages already open as chips, each closable, with Close all.
• Start new conversation (NewChatComposer, inline there and in the New chat dialog from the feed's + and ⌘K): one panel. Type a name and people from Aden and every connected app list under the field, with a tab per app and its count, each avatar badged with its app and each row a tick box. The same contact listed twice on one app shows once. Pick one for a chat, several for a group; the first pick settles the app. The bar at the bottom takes an optional first message and starts it, and a group gets a name field on top. Pressing Links on the rail while already in Links, or the home button beside the address, comes back to it. When Beeper isn't connected, the step to connect it shows on the screen itself.
• The sidebar has no headings: Inbox, the groups, Later and Hidden, then the pages. Links settings live in Inbox's own settings; a new group starts from a chat's right-click (Add to, New group) and a new page from Other or ⌘K. The thread pane's empty state carries the Start new conversation field too, and in the list layout search spans the row.
• Rename a group: right-click a group chat, Rename group. Beeper chats are renamed on their network (PATCH /v1/chats/{id}), Aden threads through PATCH /chat/threads/:id.
• Several chats at once: ⌘-click (Ctrl-click on Windows and Linux) picks a row, Shift-click a range from the last one picked, ⌘A every row on screen while the list has focus. A bar floats over the list with the count and what to do with all of them: mark as read or unread, pin or unpin, hide from Inbox (show, on Hidden), mark as spam, move to a group, and delete. Email goes to the mailbox's own trash and a chat from Beeper is deleted as below, after a confirm that names how many. A row its app can't do it on is passed over and named in the toast ("Deleted 2. Jay can't be deleted from Aden: WhatsApp keeps it."). Escape, the bar's cross, another list or filter, or opening a chat lets the rows go.
• Peek at a chat: rest the pointer on an unread chat's badge for a moment (or focus the row and press Space) and its last few messages show beside it, in the thread's own bubbles, newest at the bottom, with who wrote each in a group and when. Nothing opens and nothing is marked read. It reads the chat once and keeps it, so the next look is instant and opening the chat paints at once. No peek while a row is dragged or the list scrolls.
• Group anything: "New folder" drops a naming row at the top of the sidebar. Drag rows onto a folder to file them, back out to unfile. Dropping one row on the middle of another folds the two into a folder named after the row that was already there; nearer either edge still reorders. An empty folder offers "Add a page", where a pasted link becomes a page on the spot.
• Switch pages: hold Ctrl and press Tab. The list is ordered by when you last looked at each one, so a single Ctrl+Tab flips back to the previous page; keep pressing to reach further back, Shift+Tab to walk the other way, release to commit, Escape to stay put. It reaches everything the shell has open: System, Aden, Links and each open page.
• Switch rails: hold Option and press Tab (Mac); it works like ⌘Tab. The rail's surfaces: System, Aden, Organisations and Admin for the people who have them, Links and every pin under it. A quick tap flips back without showing the panel; hold to see it, keep pressing Tab (Shift to go back, or the arrow keys), hover to point, and release to switch. Enter or a click switches too, Escape stays put. Each open surface shows a preview of how you left it; the web app is one page, so of Aden, Organisations and Admin only the one it shows has one. Windows and Linux keep Alt+Tab for themselves.
• Close from a switcher: with either switcher up, W (or the × on a card) closes the one selected and the list stays up, as ⌘Tab's Q does. Ctrl+Tab closes an open page; Option+Tab closes the pages a pinned app or link has open. System, Aden and Links have nothing to close.
• Moving between views: opening a chat pushes it in from the right while the list steps back and fades; back reverses it. Home, the chats list and a page like Instagram crossfade, and another chat in the split view's pane eases in over the last.
• Resize the chats list and a chat: in the full-width list view, drag either edge of the column. The list and an open chat each remember their own width; double-click an edge to go back to the default.
• Resize the sidebar: drag its right edge. Local's sidebar does the same. Double-click the edge to go back to the default width. Each width is remembered per surface.
• Pin to the top: a page's menu can pin it to a grid of tiles above the list, for the handful you open every day.
• Share a folder: the folder menu's "Share folder" gives you a link. Send it to anyone: the page on aden.space lists what is in the folder, and "Open in Aden" hands it to their desktop app, which asks them to confirm before adding anything. No account needed to open the link, and your logins never travel with it. The raw code is still there under "Or send the raw code", for pasting into "Import folder" by hand.
• Team links are the platform rows. A link the team saved for Instagram is the Instagram row, showing the handle beside the name; opening it lands on that profile rather than the platform's home page. A link on a platform the catalogs don't carry gets its own row. "Team links" behind the i at the bottom of the sidebar opens the web app's Links page.
• China is in the catalog. Weibo, WeChat, Xiaohongshu (RED), Douyin, Bilibili, Kuaishou, Zhihu and Douban under Socials, NetEase Cloud Music and QQ Music beside them, and NetEase Cloud Musician, Tencent Musician, Douyin Creator, Bilibili Creator, Xiaohongshu Creator and Kuaishou Creator under For artists. They start hidden like the rest of the catalog, and the web app's Links page carries the same ids, so a link saved there lands on the row.
• One list, your order. Catalog platforms, your pages and the team's links are all the same kind of row: drag any of them from anywhere on the row, into a folder or out of one. A row shows two controls on hover, close and "…"; opening a new account, hiding the row, detaching it to its own window, pinning and renaming are all in that menu. Hidden rows collect behind a "N hidden" row at the bottom, and the New button's catalog brings one back.
• Messaging apps first. Until you drag rows around, the sidebar leads with the apps people message you on (WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger, X, Telegram, Discord, LinkedIn, Snapchat, WeChat), then your own pages, then everything else. "Put messaging apps first" behind the i forgets your dragged order and goes back to that; folders and hidden rows stay.
• The sidebar starts short. Before anyone arranges it, it shows Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, YouTube, X, SoundCloud, SoundCloud for Artists, YouTube for Artists and Apple Music for Artists. The rest of the catalog is hidden, not gone: unhide from the "N hidden" row or the New button's catalog. A page you are signed into is never hidden, whatever the layout says, or the session would have no way back to it.
• The handle appears on hover. Sixteen rows each carrying a second string is the clutter; which account it is only matters once you are reaching for the row.
• The page's title is in the title bar whenever a page is on screen, beside back and forward. Reload shows while the field is hovered (Stop while a page loads), and the magnifier turns into Links home. Click it for the address: paste a deep link and hit enter. A page with no title yet shows its short address.
• Cmd+W closes the page, not the app: the application menu binds it to "Close Tab", with Shift+Cmd+W for the window. With no page open it closes the window as before, and in a detached window it closes that window.
• Detach a page with the button beside the address, or on the account row in the sidebar. It opens in its own window on the same session, so nothing asks you to sign in again, and the tab closes: the page moves rather than being duplicated.
• Scale the app: Cmd/Ctrl with +, - and 0. It scales every Aden window, including detached pages, and survives a restart.
• Appearance: switching the app between light and dark switches the pages with it. Sites that keep their own theme setting still win, since that is an explicit choice the user made on the site.
• Add people from their profile: on someone's profile in Links (Instagram, TikTok, X, YouTube, SoundCloud, Facebook, LinkedIn, Threads, Bluesky), a pill at the bottom left ties them to Aden. If a contact has that handle, it opens the contact. Otherwise it offers a new contact (name and handle filled in from the page) or adding the handle to an existing one, with contacts of the same name first. The x puts it away for that profile. X, YouTube, SoundCloud, Threads and Bluesky have no handle field on a contact yet, so those offer a new contact only.
• Search a platform from ⌘K: type a platform and a name, "ig andrewaofficial", "tt mave", "yt mave trance drums". The palette offers "Open @andrewaofficial" (their profile) and "Search Instagram for …", both in that platform's Links tab. Aliases: ig/insta, tt, x/twitter, yt, sc, fb, li, th/threads, bsky, pin, reddit, sp/spotify (lib/social-search.ts).
• Search (⌘K): one palette for the whole desktop, opened from the Local sidebar's search box or the keyboard. It finds this app's screens, your pages and your open sessions. It does not search tracks, releases or people: when a query has no local match it says so and offers to carry it to the web app, organisations or admin, opening that surface's own palette with the query.
• Extensions: load your own unpacked Chrome extension into the pages Custom opens ("Extensions" behind the i at the bottom of the sidebar). Content scripts, storage and messaging work; toolbar buttons and most chrome.tabs calls do not, and Aden's own session never loads them.
• Pages load when you open them. Sessions are remembered for every team, but a tab only gets a live page once you go to it, and only while its team is the active one. Switching team drops the other team's pages; their logins stay, and they reload when you go back.
• Personal is a workspace too: with Personal picked in the switcher, Links lists its pages and inbox like a team's, and pages (and pins) open with your own logins, kept apart from every team's.
• Pages reopen where you left them: quit and relaunch, and each open page (a rail link, Instagram) loads the address it was last on, not the one it was opened at (aden:social-tab-urls, lib/tab-last-url.ts).
• Audio: a page playing behind another surface shows up as a pill in the title bar naming it. Click it to jump to that page, mute just that one, or silence everything at once. Pages also need a click before they may play at all, the same rule a browser applies, so a restored session no longer starts a sound from nowhere.
• Feed: the Feed row at the top of the sidebar collects the messages every open page announces (a WhatsApp message, an Instagram DM, a Discord mention), newest first. Each row in the sidebar also shows its page's unread count. Open a message to go to its conversation; most chat sites jump straight to the chat.
• Two ways to read it: the toggle in the feed's toolbar switches between the feed on its own (opening a message leaves the feed for the page) and the feed beside the conversation (the feed stays as a column, the page opens to its right). The app remembers your pick.
• Choose what shows: the network button in the feed's toolbar (their icons stacked, the ones turned off faded) opens a checklist that turns a service on or off, and so does "Show in feed" in a row's "…" menu. A hidden service keeps its unread badge in the sidebar. Search "feed" in ⌘K to open it.
• Your conversations, not just new messages: for Instagram, WhatsApp and Claude the feed reads the inbox you are signed into and lists every conversation with its last message and unread state, merged with Beeper's (when connected) and newest first. Opening one takes that page straight to the chat. It refreshes every 30 seconds while the page is open in Links. Claude lists your Claude Code sessions and chats, so two Claude logins on the rail read as one list, each row named for its account.
• Right-click a chat for a menu you can type into. A search box on top has the cursor; under it a row of icons for the everyday things (Pin, Mark as unread, Remind me, Hide from Inbox; hover one for its name and letter); then the list: Start a session, Collaborate on a track…, Invite to Aden (when they are not on Aden), Add to (Collaborators…, Contacts…, a lead, and the feed's groups with New group…), Contact once they are one (open it, email them, their team on Aden, link a team, copy the handle), and the chat's own rows. Typing filters all of it, the rows inside Add to and Contact included, and brings in the palette's rows about them under "From ⌘K": their profile and a search for them on their network, their chat, a new track or email with them in mind. The menu looks them up first: your team's contacts by handle, email or phone, and any team that lists that handle publicly on its profile. Someone not on Aden yet gets an invite by email from the session or track you add them to. In your own workspace these run for your default team (else your first), and the menu names it; only with no team at all does it ask you to join one.
• Photos, video, voice notes and files in Beeper chats show in the thread: photos inline, videos with Aden's player (first frame, play, hover controls, full screen), voice notes and songs with the Aden waveform to scrub and a speed button once played, files as a row you click to open. Voice messages in Aden chats play there too. One message plays at a time.
• Transcribe a voice note: the captions button beside it shows the network's transcript when there is one, and otherwise transcribes it on the first press. Up to 25 MB, 60 an hour.
• Shared reels play in the thread. Beeper only sends a reel's still and its link, so the still gets a play button that swaps it for Instagram's embed player (instagram.com/reel/<id>/embed, lib/instagram-embed.ts), in the team's Instagram session so follower-only reels play too.
• Posts open floating, signed in. Click a link to an Instagram, Threads, TikTok, YouTube, Facebook or X post in a thread and it opens in a floating window over the page, on that page's login in the workspace (the account already open, else its first), so liking or commenting for an engagement group is one click. The next post of the same page loads into the same window; closing it closes its tab. Share parameters (igsh, utm_*, TikTok's _r, YouTube's si) are dropped first, so the visit is not tied to whoever shared it (lib/post-links.ts). Any other web link floats the same way, on a plain page of its own (WEB_LINK_PLATFORM_ID), named by its site; mailto and files go to the system. In a popped-out chats window a link opens in a window of its own. Either way it loads as a phone (Safari on an iPhone, MOBILE_USER_AGENT), so the site serves the page it made for that size.
• On every outside page. The sidebar (or bar) shows on every page from another site, not only ones Aden can read: asking for a review and the link's own actions always apply. It finds the page again while a new tab's view is still arriving (usePageLocation retries), so it no longer stays missing until you switch tabs.
• Where it sits. For the main window's page (a social tab or a rail pin) the sidebar lives in the window frame on the right, on the frame's glass, outside the page; folded, it is a thin strip there with the open button on top. The page card makes room for it (ShellFrame's right). Its fold button is the web app's sidebar toggle; folding and opening glide the page's edge rather than snapping it. Rows sit at full strength on the frame's glass so they read beside a busy page. In full page (⌘S) it slides in over the page from the right edge, like the rail from the left. Split panes and floating windows keep it beside their page. As a bar it floats over the main pane.
• Aden beside the page. On any page Aden can read (DISCO, Samply, Session Studio, Songspace, untitled, SoundCloud, Dropbox, Drive, Google Docs and Sheets, Notion: WORK_PLATFORMS), any music link (private SoundCloud links too) and anyone's profile, an Aden sidebar runs down the page's left edge, in the main pane, split panes, floating windows and popped-out windows. Open, it is a labelled column that scrolls: the person the page is about (who they are to the team, their contact or "Add @handle to contacts", Collaborate on a track, Add to collaborators), like/pass and stars on music with its "…", the page's actions (the same ⌘K offers for the link: a track from it, the track its title names, a folder to import) and Ask for a review (see link-reviews). Open, the header holds like/pass and the rating, and the rows sit in two groups, "This track" (or "This page") and "Artist". The fold button turns it into an icon strip with the same things behind popovers (aden:rail-collapsed). The float button turns it into a bar over the page's foot instead, on the app's frosted glass (floating-toolbar.tsx, shared with the Inbox's selection bar): the person, the verdict, a plus for everything Aden can make of the page, and saving, reviews and the rest as icons, each with a tooltip; its sidebar button docks it back. A third layout, Bar at the bottom, fixes it across the page's foot, and a floating bar goes there on its own when the page is too narrow (picture in picture, a small floating window). The Layout menu (sidebar header, the bar, "Aden beside pages" in the page's "…" menu) picks among them, remembered on the computer (aden:rail-layout). The sidebar's edge drags wider or narrower (ResizableSidebar, aden:rail-width); the bar moves by its grip, stays inside the page, and a double-click on the grip puts it back (aden:rail-bar-offset). Hovering the star opens the five stars. In a pane under 640px wide the open sidebar floats over the page instead of squeezing it. It replaced the floating "Add to Aden contacts" pill (ProfileContactSection). The window's ⌘K offers the open page's actions first (open-page-rows.tsx). SoundCloud has no contact column, so a SoundCloud handle is kept as a profile link on the contact (profileLink) and matched back through those links. aden://page?url= opens a page this way from outside the app.
• Menus close on a page click. A menu or popover opened from the rail or the title bar closes when the page is clicked: a click inside a webview never reaches the window's document, so the main process relays it (shell-page-pointer-down, to the window hosting the page) and closeOpenPopups plays it back as an outside press.
• ⌘K on any page. ⌘K pressed while a page has focus opens the app's palette (relayed as the command-palette browser shortcut); Aden's own pages keep their own ⌘K.
• No sign-in walls. SoundCloud's "Create an account or sign in" modal never shows on a page open in Aden, nor its cookie notice, the OneTrust cookie banner on any site, the "Now available" upsell banner or the Go mobile, legal links and language blocks: main/page-annoyances.ts hides them with CSS and a text match. Its Sign in button still works.
• Hide anything on a page. Right-click a page open in Aden (not Aden's own) for its menu: Back, Forward, Reload, Mute this page, Copy, ✦ Create on selected text (the chat bubble's rows: a track, a studio session, a todo, opened in quick create), Copy link, Copy page address, and Hide this element, which hides the block under the pointer on that site from then on; ⌘Z right after brings it back. Show N hidden on <site> brings them all back, and "Hidden on this site" in the page's "…" menu lists each hidden element with its own Show. Saved as selectors per host in hidden-elements.json (main/page-element-hider.ts).
• Mute a page. While a tab plays sound the title bar has its speaker: click to mute or unmute. Mute this page in the right-click menu does the same.
• Find on a page (⌘F). The title bar's address field turns into find while it is open, with how many matches there are (3/12); Enter and Shift+Enter step through them, Escape leaves (FindBar.tsx).
• Swipe back and forward. A two-finger swipe goes back or forward on a page, like a Mac browser (main/webview-swipe-nav.ts: a wheel listener in each page, ignored where the page itself scrolls sideways).
• A SoundCloud playlist, track by track. On soundcloud.com/…/sets/… the sidebar lists the playlist's tracks, read from the page (use-page-tracks.ts), each with like, pass and stars kept in the team's demos, and "Add all N to demos". The bar has the same list behind a list button.
• Keep a page on a track. A song's page (Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, SoundCloud, Bandcamp, Mixcloud, Tidal, Deezer, Beatport) offers Add as reference track…; a picture or a video (Pinterest pins, Instagram posts and reels, TikTok, Behance, Dribbble, Are.na, Unsplash, Vimeo, YouTube, any image file) offers Save as inspiration…. Either opens the team's tracks; picking one saves it as that track's reference (track_references, title and artist read from the page title) or on its moodboard (track_media, is_inspiration), with Open in the toast. ⌘K offers both while the page is open. Read in @aden/navigation/smart-saves, saved through POST /tracks/:id/references and /tracks/:id/inspirations.
• Reply to a message: right-click it, Reply (R). The reply box shows who and what you answer (Esc or the x cancels), and it goes out as a real reply on that network (Beeper replyToMessageID, Aden replyTo). Email answers the whole thread instead.
• Send photos, videos and files: paste (Cmd+V) or drop them on a Beeper chat. They wait above the reply box as thumbnails (x removes one); Enter sends them as the network's own photo, video or file, the draft as the first one's caption (beeper_send_local_file, read from disk as it uploads). A pasted screenshot is saved to a temp PNG first (save_clipboard_image). "..." hands them to "Send as a transfer" or "Start a track" instead. Aden chats and email have no native file send, so files there go straight to those options.
• Edit your message: right-click one of yours, Edit (E). Its text moves into the reply box under an "Editing" bar (Esc or the x cancels and gives back the draft you had); Enter saves. The bubble changes at once and shows "Edited" under it, as does any message edited elsewhere. A refused edit puts the old text back, with "Edit again" on the toast. Edit only shows where the network edits: Beeper reports it per chat (capabilities.edit, window editMaxAge), text messages only, saved with PUT /v1/chats/{chatID}/messages/{messageID}; past the window the item stays, disabled, "Too old to edit". Aden edits your own text messages with no window (PATCH /chat/threads/:id/messages/:messageId). Email can't.
• Photos open large: click one to zoom it over the window. Photos and videos keep their size before they load, so the thread never jumps.
• Hover a link to preview it: its title, image and site, read by the main process (link_preview, @aden/shared/utils/og-metadata) the first time you hover it.
• Cards float over the thread. The cards a chat's messages bring up (a track, a day to plan, asks) sit over the top of the thread on a fade of the page, so one appearing never resizes the thread. They are glass and lift in and out. A day like "tonight" or "tmr" counts from when its message was sent, and a day that has passed brings no card.
• Opened links get a check. A link you opened shows a check after it, for you only (local to this computer, aden:opened-links, the last 2000), so you can see which posts still wait on you. The same post shared twice counts once. Right-click the message, "Mark … as not opened", to clear it.
• Aden chats in the feed: your Aden conversations sit in the same list as Beeper's, with the Aden mark on their avatar, and open in the same thread view with a reply box. Aden says whether a chat is unread, not how many, so those show a dot. The Aden row in the sidebar, above your mailboxes, opens the Inbox with only your Aden chats and counts the unread ones; ⌘K "Aden chats" does the same.
• Seen: a row whose last message is yours shows "Seen" once it has been read, or "Seen by 3" in a group, where the unread badge sits on other rows. Beeper chats read it from the last message's read receipt (seen), Aden chats from the thread list's lastMessage.seenBy, counted from every member's receipt. Nothing shows while it is only sent or delivered, nor for networks without read receipts (email, Signal).
• One person, one row: chats with the same person on several networks fold into one row with each network's mark beside the name, in Inbox and on the Links start screen. They fold when they match the same Aden contact (Instagram handle, email or phone), share a phone number or email, or have the same full name on different apps (two words or more; two chats on one app never fold by name). Aden DMs fold in too. It's on by default: "Merge people across apps" in Inbox settings (and Links settings, and ⌘K) turns it off, and a folded row's "Show chats separately" splits one person again (lib/person-fold.ts). The setting, the people shown apart and chats tied to a contact by hand are kept on the account (app_preferences.links_people, per workspace for the ties), so every install shows the same people. Opening a folded person ties each of their chats to the contact, and a tied chat older than the loaded pages is fetched on its own, so a fold holds once one of its chats scrolls out of the newest page. The row behaves as one conversation: its message and unread state are the latest one, on whichever network it came, and opening it reads the person on every network. The thread has a tab per network to reply from, starting on where they last wrote. The network icon on the reply box is the same switch: hover or press it for the person's networks, and "Add a network" lists your other Beeper logins and the networks the contact has a handle on. Picking one joins their chat there to the person: the chat Beeper already has, one Beeper starts from the contact's handle or number, or, when neither exists, that network's page floating on your login (their profile when the handle is known, else a people search for their name) where you write to them; the first chat Beeper then shows with them on that network joins the person on its own (ComposerNetworkSwitcher.tsx). Right-click a chat and "Link to contact…" to fold in one that doesn't match on its own (a WhatsApp chat named by a number, say); "Unlink" undoes it. A folded row's menu opens any of its chats ("Open on WhatsApp").
• Chats and Pages: the Links sidebar has two halves. Chats on top: Inbox (every conversation) and your own groups. Pages below: the pages you use, with the rest behind "More pages". Make a group with the "+" beside Chats or "New group…" under Add to in a chat's right-click menu; file a chat there too (its group is checked; pick it again to take the chat out), or drag it from the feed onto a group in the sidebar (onto Inbox to take it out of its group, onto Hidden to hide it), or with "Add people" in the group's toolbar or on its empty state, a searchable list of your chats. A chat sits in one group at most, so Inbox always shows everything. Right-click a group to rename or delete it (its chats go back to Inbox only). Groups are in ⌘K too, and stay on this Mac.
• Right-click a message in a thread: Reply, React (the quick emoji, as a page) and Copy as icons, then its file, its links, its music as demos, and the sender's Aden actions (the same as a person's), all searchable like a chat's menu. In a group, the sender is named but has no handle, so the lookup matches on name only via contacts.
• Hide a conversation (Note to self, a code bot) from its right-click menu. Hidden ones collect under Hidden in the sidebar's Chats section; open it and right-click one to show it again.
• Spam, block and delete a chat from Beeper in its right-click or "…" menu. Beeper can't delete a chat or block anyone on their network, so: Mark as spam and Block (one to one only) mute the chat in Beeper and move it to Spam & blocked in the sidebar, whatever they send next; it stays out of Inbox, unread counts and follow-ups. Right-click it there for Not spam or Unblock. Delete chat asks first, then archives it in Beeper: it leaves Aden and Beeper until they message again, and stays on its own app. Each toast has Undo.
• Spam, block and delete an email from its right-click menu or the thread's "…" menu (a person's row acts on every email folded into it). Move to spam and Delete email take the row off at once with Undo; after five seconds the thread goes to the mailbox's own spam (Gmail's Spam, Outlook's Junk Email) or trash (Gmail's Trash, Outlook's Deleted Items). Inboxes connected before this existed are told to reconnect: it needs Gmail's gmail.modify or Graph's Mail.ReadWrite. Block {sender} keeps that address's mail out of Aden in every workspace, what they sent and what they send next, without touching the mailbox; it lists under Spam & blocked, where Unblock brings it back.
• Unread: the reply icon on the sidebar's Inbox row, the feed filter's Unread option, or "Unread" in ⌘K narrows Inbox or a group to the chats waiting on you: unread, marked unread, a reminder that came due, or a one-to-one chat ending on their message. Hidden, Later, spam, blocked and low-priority chats stay out, and so do page notifications you already read. It reads the loaded chats only; press it again, clear the filter, or "Show all chats" once you're done, to see everything.
• Search people and messages: the box in the feed's toolbar filters every conversation, page notification and unread row by name, network and message (typos included). With Beeper connected it also asks Beeper, so a chat older than the 50 most recent still turns up. Every conversation is also in ⌘K: type a name and pick it to open that chat in the feed.
• Unread first: the top of the feed lists every open page with something waiting, with the same count as its sidebar badge, so unread from before the app opened is there too. Below it come the messages themselves.
• Reply from the feed with Beeper: connect Beeper Desktop from the bottom of the feed ("Connect Beeper", then approve Aden in Beeper). The feed then lists your real conversations on every network Beeper holds, and opening one shows the thread with a reply box: full width with a back arrow in the feed view, beside the feed in the split view. Replies go out from your own accounts. Networks Beeper covers stop showing their page notifications, so nothing appears twice. Beeper not running? "Start Beeper" launches it without its window (hidden on macOS). Once you have connected it, Links starts it that way on its own whenever it is closed; turn that off with "Start Beeper in the background" in the feed toolbar's Beeper menu or in Links settings. No browser? Paste a token from Beeper's Settings instead.
• The desktop tour shows it: the second step of the first-run tour plays a chat on sample rows (a sent track kept as a demo, a swipe that brings in Together, a group chat that starts a session, one linked to a release) with the same Beeper connect step under it. A two-finger swipe on the sample chat toggles Together, as it does in Links. Connecting there is optional. Settings → General → Onboarding "Replay" (or "Replay onboarding" in ⌘K) runs the whole tour again from its first step.
• Email addresses in a message open a menu: write an email, copy the address, or invite them to Aden by email. When the address belongs to a team or organisation member it says so, with their profile. When a contact's name fits the address (or the sender's name), "Save on <name>" puts the address on that contact. Below that are the same person actions as a chat's menu: start a session, collaborate on a track, then a Contact submenu (open it, their team on Aden, link a team, copy the handle, and every group including Collaborators as one checked list).
• A chat's "…" menu is the same menu: the icon row, the person's rows, "Link this chat to…", Add to and Contact, then Chat (add a chat from another app, show a network's chat on its own, show what you share, Search). Same search box, same letters, so both read the same.
• Music they send becomes a demo: a SoundCloud, Dropbox, Drive, Box, OneDrive, WeTransfer, Inflyte, DISCO, untitled, hearthis.at, Audiomack or Suno link, or a direct audio file, gets a card under the message. It plays there in the platform's own player when the link allows it. The card always shows like (green), pass (red) and a 1-5 rating: the first one you set puts the link in the team's demos with the sender's name, once per link, with that verdict. Pressing the active thumb again takes it back to undecided, the same on the web demo cards, which lost their Pending button. The card's "…" holds the rest: Add to or Open in demos, Download… (you pick where; the toast shows the percentage), Add to a DJ playlist… (saved to ~/Music/Aden/From chats and added as a row, so a sent playlist carries it to rekordbox, Serato, Traktor and Virtual DJ), Upload to Aden as a new track or as a version of one, and Open on the host. Download, playlist and upload need a host that hands out the file by address (Dropbox, Drive, OneDrive, a direct audio link); SoundCloud, WeTransfer and promo players get demos and "Open on …" only. A host that answers with a web page instead of the file says to download it in the browser. "Open in demos" and every other Aden page opened from Links move the web app with its own router, without a reload.
• Actions on a message: hovering a message that asks for something ("do you want to collaborate?", "send over a playlist") shows a sparkle button with actions for that message alone. "Send a playlist of your tracks" makes a playlist of the team's 50 newest tracks and writes its share link into the draft; # lists the team's playlists and albums under its tracks, and /playlist makes one too. Planning suggestions stay at the top; there is no bottom suggestion bar.
• Files people send: a file, photo, video or voice note in a message has a "…" (and the message's right-click has Add to Aden and Save): audio as a new track or a version of one, a photo or video in a track's media, anything as a document of the team or of a track, or saved where you pick. The file comes from the chat first, with a toast for how it's going.
• Click a file to open it: a file row (PDF, doc, zip, anything) opens in the app your computer uses for it, no saving first. A sent song has an open button beside its player, and every file's "…" and right-click have Open. The row reads "Opening…" while it downloads; a second click opens the copy already there. A file that runs code (an app, a script, an installer) shows in its folder instead of opening.
• Letters in the menus: every chat menu shows ⌥ and a letter beside its rows; pressing them runs the row, whether or not you have typed. Plain letters always search, so typing "session" never trips a row. The letters are the first letter of their row. Conversations: P pin, U unread, R remind (opens the times; T there picks a time), L link to contact, H hide, which also work while the pointer is on the row with the menu closed. A person: S session, T collaborate on a track, I invite; inside Add to, K collaborators, A contacts. A message: R reply, E react, C copy, O open its file, F save it, D add its music as a demo. Inside a submenu page, ← or Backspace on the empty box goes back, and Escape goes back before it closes. A music card: A demos, D download, P DJ playlist, N new track, V version, O open. A file: N new track, V version, M media, D team documents, T track documents, O open, S save.
• Inbox header: one row, search first. The layout (list, or list and conversation), which networks show, and Beeper's accounts, autostart and disconnect sit behind the cog. A group, Later or Hidden names itself; Inbox needs no title. Avatars carry a small, quiet network mark. Opening a page, from the sidebar, a feed item or a page conversation, gives it the whole width; opening Inbox leaves the page.
• New chat or group: the sidebar's floating "New" (or "New chat or group" in ⌘K; New's menu also adds a page or a folder) opens the same Start new conversation panel in a dialog. It opens in the inbox once the chat exists.
• Type it in ⌘K: "ig gc with Senator and Palm Skies", "group chat with Jo, Sam & Kim on whatsapp", "dm Senator on insta", "telegram Jo". The row opens the same panel on that network with each person looked up in its Beeper contacts (or on Aden) and picked; a name nobody matches stays in the field with its results. Works for every network Beeper connects (Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger, Telegram, Signal, iMessage, Discord, LinkedIn, X, Slack, Google Messages) and Aden. The phrases are read by lib/chat-intent.ts (parseChatIntent).
• The split, your way: in "List and conversation", drag the line between them to give either more room (the conversation keeps at least 360px); double-click it for the default. The width is remembered. In the list view the search row lines up with the list's column.
• "#" tabs: All, Tracks, Playlists and Albums over the share list; ← and → switch between them.
• Pages: yours, then Other: the sidebar lists your pages (a saved team link, a page you added, a chat app you're connected to, anything with an open session) and the ones you pinned. Everything else waits in Other, a flyout with search where each page opens or pins to the sidebar, and a chat app also opens straight to its chats. A row's "…" has "Move to Other".
• Two conversations at once: in "List and conversation", drag a row to the left or right edge of the open conversation to open it beside it. The pane beside has a slim header: close it, or make it the main one (the two swap). With two open, a row dropped at an edge replaces the pane there. The pane closes with the list; it isn't remembered. The drop zones and the frosted outline (the same one a page dragged from the rail shows, SplitDropPreview) only appear while a row is dragged, so nothing moves before that (ChatPaneDrop.tsx, lib/chat-drop.ts).
• A chat dropped on a chat: drop a one-to-one row on another row, or on the middle of an open conversation, and what happens depends on who is on each side. A chat from another app joins that person's row at once: whether or not the fold matches them (contact, phone, email, full name), a group can't span apps, so "Glenn" on WhatsApp dropped on "Glenn Troncquo" on Instagram means the same person. Two people on the same app and account get "Start a group with …?", with an optional name; Beeper makes the group on the network (beeper_chat_group_from, from the other side of each chat), Aden makes a thread with both. A person dropped on an Aden group is added after "Add … to …?" (aden_chat_add_members, the thread says who added whom). A group, or a person folded from several chats, can't be dropped onto anything. A chat dropped on a group from another app is blocked with the reason. Beeper's API makes groups but adds no one to an existing one, so that drop is blocked with the reason and where to do it instead.
• Same person, one row: drag a chat from the list onto the name at the top of an open conversation to bundle them: the chat joins that person's contact (made from the open chat when there is none yet). "Add a chat" does the same from a search: it lists loaded chats and asks Beeper for older ones as you type (useBeeperChatSearch). Below them, "Search … on" Instagram, Facebook, X or LinkedIn opens that app's people search on your login there (find-person-links, openOnLogin), for when Beeper has no chat with them.
• Not on Aden yet: a mail icon beside the thread's name says so and holds the invite button; the line under the name keeps what they are to you (contact, collaborator, their team).
• Collaborators from a chat: "Add to collaborators…" in a person's menu opens the contact picker with your collaborators first, the same name next, and, as you type, Aden teams: picking a team saves them as a collaborator in that team.
• Whole history, fast: a thread loads its newest page and the page before it whenever you scroll up near the top, keeping your place. Opening or sending never loads older pages or moves the thread off the end; only the messages on screen render, so a long chat scrolls as fast as a short one. Beeper chats go back as far as Beeper has them; Aden chats as far as their history keeps (500 messages). The refresh every few seconds adds new messages without dropping the ones scrolled back to.
• Search in a chat: the magnifier in the thread header (or ⌘F) opens a search box. Beeper chats search their whole history through Beeper; Aden chats search their history here. Picking a result loads back to it, scrolls there and marks it for a moment.
• Replies show at once: a sent reply lands in the thread the moment you press Enter, faded with "Sending…" until the network takes it, and the reply box stays open for the next one. A reply that fails says "Not sent" with Retry and Remove. The thread swaps each one for the network's own copy when it loads, in the same row (settleOutgoing in @aden/chat/smart/outbox says which copy is whose), so nothing re-measures or nudges the thread.
• Holds on to the newest message: opening a chat lands on its last message, with room under it, and stays there while rows measure, pictures load, the cards above fill in and the reply box resizes. Only your own scrolling (wheel, touch, keys, the scrollbar) lets go; scrolling back to the end holds on again. Jumping to a search result or loading earlier messages lets go too.
• Messages move like a chat: a message landing at the end of the thread, yours or theirs, glides the rows up to make room and comes in from the reply box, growing from its corner. Only messages landing at the end move: opening a chat, loading earlier messages and scrolling never animate, and reduced motion turns it off. (lib/use-append-motion.ts: a transform on the rows' container, offset by what the scroll jumped, eased back over 240 ms; the virtualizer's positions never change.)
• Read and typing, where the network says: under your last message, "Sent" becomes "Delivered" or "Read" when the network reports it. Beeper carries a message's read receipt (seen) and delivery (sendStatus) for networks that have them (WhatsApp, Telegram, Instagram, Messenger); Aden chats read the thread's read receipts with every poll. A network that reports neither stays at "Sent". In an Aden chat, three dots under the last message show someone typing (named in a group), and your own typing is told to the thread while the draft changes (every 5s, under the API's 6s hold). Beeper's Desktop API carries no typing state in either direction (no endpoint to send it, and its event stream emits only chat.* and message.*), and email has none, so those chats show nothing for it rather than a guess. The same menu disconnects it.
• Suggestions from what they ask: above the reply box, one-click actions for what the messages on screen ask for. "Can you send the new version of Summer Nights?" offers "Send latest "Summer Nights"" (or "Share a version" when no track is named), "send me the stems" offers "Send files", "I'll send you the stems" offers "Send an upload link", a label or curator email like "I'm looking for new music" offers "Send music" (the track picker, writing a share link into the reply), "wanna collab?" offers "Collaborate on a track" and "Add to collaborators", "studio session friday?" offers "Start a session", and "the contract" offers "Request documents". A shared SoundCloud track, a Dropbox, Drive, WeTransfer, Box or OneDrive file, or any link to an audio or stems file offers "Collaborate on "…" in Aden": it starts a track named after the link (noting where it came from) and opens Collaborate with it picked. Each writes its link into the draft; the x hides them for those messages. Only the newest three messages from them that are on screen are read, one sentence at a time, so a long email's footer doesn't add a suggestion its sentences never ask for. To try it alone, send these to yourself in Beeper's Note to self: there, your own messages count.
• One inbox per team: the inbox follows the team switcher, like Links pages keep a browser session per team. Each team has its own groups, Hidden and Later lists, pins, unread marks and contact links. Aden chats show in their own team; direct chats (no team) show in every team. Which chats a team shows is one list, "Chats" in the inbox's settings: a row per Beeper account (two Instagram accounts are two rows) and one per network you only have as a page. Every account is on in every team until that team turns it off; turning an account on brings its network back too. Beeper is connected once per computer, so switching team never asks to pick or connect accounts again. The switcher only follows the embedded web app when it lands on a team URL (/app/teams/{id}); any other web page never moves it, so the inbox doesn't jump to a team (and lose its chats) when the web app reloads.
• Connected chat apps first: under the groups, Pages lists the chat apps you use first: ones with an open session in this team or a Beeper account on that network, and not turned off in the feed. The rest follow in their own order.
• Groups have a colour and an icon: set when creating one or with "Edit group" (right-click), from the same palette and icons as pages.
• Manage chats like Beeper: right-click a chat for Pin (it stays on top), Mark as unread, and Remind me: in an hour, two hours, this evening (before 18:00), tomorrow 09:00, this weekend (Monday to Thursday) or next Monday, or "Pick a time…". The chat leaves Inbox and waits under "Later" in the sidebar (and in ⌘K). On time it comes back on top, unread, with a notification; a reply from them brings it back early. "Remove reminder", first on the Remind me page while one is set, cancels it, and opening the chat clears it.
• Who they are on Aden: a one-to-one thread shows it under the name: contact, collaborator, their team, or "Not on Aden yet". "Connect team" picks the team a contact is in (public teams, by name); "Invite" writes your Aden invite link into the reply. A person's right-click menu has the same, plus "Add to contacts…" for someone who isn't one yet: one dialog to make a new contact or pick the one they already are (same name first), with "Add to collaborators" to file them in the team's "Collaborators" group. Picking ties the chat to that contact, and stores their handle on it. "New contact" opens a short form filled from the chat and the search (type an email and it lands in Email): name, email, phone, their team (an Aden team found by name connects them to it; anything else is kept as the company), Instagram, TikTok and website. Saving a collaborator shows a toast with "View collaborators", which opens the team's Collaborators group.
• Share a track in any chat: type # in a thread's reply box, pick a team track, then choose every version, the latest one or a single version. Aden makes a share link and puts it in the message, so it goes out on Instagram, WhatsApp or Aden alike. Versions show when they were uploaded, and a play button on each lets you hear it before sharing. An Aden link in the draft shows as a card above the reply box (cover, title, versions), with an x to take it out.
• Commands: / at the start of a word in the reply box lists four: Share a track, Send files, Request files…, and Request for a track or album…. Request files asks files (into your transfers) or documents, with the team's upload links that are still open listed under them to reuse. Request for a track or album picks one by typing, then asks what: a new version, stems, cover art, or photos and videos (cover art for an album), with that track's or album's open links under them. Typing after / reaches every step directly ("/stems", "/documents"). A new version or stems is asked for with a share link that takes uploads; artwork and media with an upload link tied to the track or album. Each writes its link into the draft, to read before sending.
• Drop files on a chat: a panel asks what to do with them: send them as a transfer link, or, for one audio file (mp3, wav, aiff, flac, m4a, ogg), start a track from it (its first version) and either share its link or open Collaborate with the person you're talking to, the new track picked.
• Tag people with @: lists your collaborators and contacts, your team's members and your organisations' members. Picking one writes their details: a contact's name, email, phone and Instagram; a member's name, email and Aden profile.
• Collaborate finds them on Aden: when a chat isn't tied to an Aden account, "Collaborate on a track" searches Aden users by the person's name and handle (GET /user/lookup: names, nickname, artist name, profile slug; never email) and lists matches with their picture and teams. Picking one adds them to the track as that user; otherwise the email invite stays.
• Collaborators in ⌘K: "collaborators" opens the team's Collaborators group, and each collaborator is a row that opens their contact.
• Link previews: an aden.space share link in a thread, sent by you or to you, shows as a card: cover, title, team and up to six versions. A version plays in the app's player bar (playRemote), with its waveform, queue and controls, and "Open track" shows when your team has it (the share page otherwise). File requests and transfers get a card with their button.
• What it can see: messages arrive as the page's own notifications, so a page has to be open in Links and signed in. Pages you are not looking at are told they are in the background, which is when chat sites notify. Messages stay on this computer.
• Ads: pages open in Links are filtered by the built-in ad blocker. Block ads and trackers, behind the i at the bottom of the sidebar, turns it off per machine and shows how much it has blocked. It used to be a switch pinned to the bottom of the sidebar, reporting a number nobody had asked for.
• Cookie banners: Hide cookie banners, in the same menu, removes cookie consent popups from pages in Links and unlocks the scrolling they block. It works with the ad blocker on or off. Both switches are also in the ⌘K palette ("cookie", "ad blocker").
• Preview an account: hover it in the sidebar for a live screenshot of the page behind it, with its title and domain.
• Switch teams: sessions are per team; switching the active team swaps the sidebar to that team's sessions.
• Close an account: hover it and click the x. Removing a whole page (the trash icon on your own pages) closes its accounts and drops their sessions.

Email in the Inbox

The mailboxes you connected to Aden (your own, your team's, your organisation's) sit in the Inbox beside your chats, one row per email thread, and in the Links sidebar under your pages: click one to see only its mail.

• Connect another mailbox. "New" › "Connect mailbox" in the Links sidebar (or "connect mailbox" in ⌘K) opens the team's integrations page floating over the Inbox, with Gmail and Outlook first (connectMailboxPath). Without a team it says to pick one first.

• Read and reply in place. An email opens in the same conversation view as a chat, the sender's name and address under its subject, with a reply line under it instead of the chat box. It stays one line until you click into it; then it opens, the body growing and its foot fading in over a beat, and offers + Participant, + Cc, + Bcc and Reply all. Left empty, it folds back the same way. The recipients are the thread's own and stay out of the way until you open a line. Nothing sends on Enter: Preview shows the email exactly as it will go out, and Send lives there beside Edit. It goes as a reply on that thread, from that mailbox, so both sides keep one conversation. A newsletter's Reply-To is honoured, and any thread with a message can be answered.

• Everything with this person, above. Scroll up past a thread's first email and the earlier threads with the same address (from them or to them, in that mailbox) load above it, oldest at the top, five threads at a time, the way older messages load in a chat. Each thread starts with a small rule carrying its subject and day. "Earlier messages" at the top does the same by click.

• Show all emails from them. The thread's "…" menu, any email address's menu, and ⌘K while an email thread is open offer Show all emails from {name}: the Inbox narrows to that address's threads, with a chip over the list to clear it.

• Start an email. "New email" in the feed's "+" menu and in ⌘K opens the same composer with From (when you read more than one mailbox), To, Cc, Bcc and Subject. Recipients suggest your contacts and whoever wrote to your mailboxes lately; paste several addresses at once. The sent thread opens in the Inbox right away.

• The chat helpers work in email too. / for requests, demos and sessions and # for a track drop links into the body as they do in a chat.

• One row per person. Mail from someone you also chat with on WhatsApp or Instagram joins their row, like any other app.

• Only what matters. Spam never shows. Hide demos and promotions (on by default) also keeps to Gmail's Primary tab or Outlook's Focused inbox and leaves out mail that reads as a demo submission: those land in your demo inbox.

• One mailbox per address. The same Gmail connected as yours and on a team shows once: the team's in its workspace, else yours.

• Emails look like emails. An email with its own layout shows it, images and links included, on white, scaled to fit, embedded pictures (a signature's logo) too. Hidden preview text and tracking pixels never show. A text email reads in the app's own type: the earlier conversation folds behind a small toggle, and long tracking links read as their label or site. Links open in your browser.

• Their socials, one click away. When an email links to the sender's Instagram, TikTok, X, Facebook, YouTube, SoundCloud, LinkedIn or Spotify artist page (a footer, a signature), small pills over it offer each one. A click puts it on their contact, made from the email when they have none, so their socials and their mail fold into one person. Profiles the contact already has don't show.

• Faces and marks. Senders show their picture: a teammate's Aden picture, else their Gravatar, else their company's icon. Each mailbox in the sidebar shows Gmail, Outlook, iCloud, Yahoo or Proton, or its own domain's icon.

• Swipe right on an open conversation to go back to the list.

• Back where you were. Leave for a page and come back, and the list still has the conversation you had open and its scroll position.

• Turn it off in the Inbox "…" menu, or in Settings, Chats: Email in Inbox and Hide demos and promotions. Both follow your account.