Huddles

What it does

• Starts a call from a task, a project's team room, a sprint, or a board. The call is bound to that item, so the people in it share the same context.
• Runs in a compact dock that survives navigation: you can open other tasks, boards, and pages without dropping the call. Expand it to a full window when you want the video front and center.
• Carries mic, camera, and screen sharing, with device pickers and a join-muted option.
• Keeps a per-call chat transcript that works on every call type, plus quick emoji reactions and raise-hand.
• Records a call to your workspace's file store, with a consent step and a banner so everyone in the call knows recording is on.
• Schedules calls for later and emails calendar invites, sends a reminder before the start, and lists everything upcoming in one place.
• Shows who is in a call across the app, rings teammates in, and keeps a history of past calls you can open and replay.
• Can encrypt calls end to end for a whole workspace.

Starting and joining a call

Every place a huddle can attach has a call control:

• A task shows a Huddle button in its detail toolbar.
• A project has a Project room, a persistent call for the whole team that is always the same room.
• Sprints and boards have their own huddle buttons in their headers.

Click it to start or join. If a call is already live on that item, the button shows how many people are in it and you join the existing one rather than starting a second. When you join, the dock appears at the bottom of the screen.

The dock's controls, left to right, are mute, camera, screen share, record, chat, invite, present your view, react, and settings, with Leave on the right. The expand control opens a full-window view of the call; collapse it to go back to the dock.

Chat, reactions, and raise-hand

Open the chat panel from the dock to talk in text alongside the call. The chat is kept with the call: a late joiner sees what was said before they arrived, and the whole conversation is saved so you can read it again after the call ends.

React opens a small row of emoji that float up on everyone's screen, and a raise-hand toggle that shows a badge to the room until you lower it.

Recording

Click Record to capture the call. Because a recording affects everyone, it is consent first: you confirm a short prompt that states everyone will be notified, and once it starts a red badge shows in the call for every participant, late joiners included. Click Record again to stop.

When the recording finishes it is saved to your workspace's file store. It then shows up on the call in your huddle history and in the workspace Huddles page, where a Recording link plays it back. Recordings are private to the workspace, so the link is served through a short-lived signed URL and only project members can open it.

Recording and end-to-end encryption cannot be used together: if a workspace encrypts its calls, recording is turned off, since the server cannot read encrypted media to record it.

Scheduling and calendar invites

From the Huddles page, Schedule plans a call for later: pick the project, an optional title, a time, and a duration. Everyone invited (or every project member, if you name no one) gets an emailed calendar invite that drops the meeting onto their calendar, works with Google Calendar, Outlook, and Apple Calendar. A reminder lands in the inbox shortly before the start, and the call appears under Upcoming on the Huddles page with a Join button once it is time. Cancelling a scheduled call sends a calendar cancellation to the same people.

The Huddles page and call history

The Huddles entry in the workspace sidebar is the hub for calls. It shows what is live now across the workspace, an agenda of upcoming scheduled calls, and a Recent log of past calls, all limited to the projects you belong to. Each item in the log opens a call detail view with who started it, when, how long it ran, the participants, the recording if there was one, and the full chat transcript.

Every task, project, sprint, and board also has its own call history, reachable from a history control next to its huddle button, listing just that item's calls.

Presence and ringing

While a call is live, the people in it show a small headphones badge on their avatar everywhere in the app, so you can see at a glance who is talking. From a call you can ring teammates in: they get an instant prompt in whatever tab they have open, plus an inbox notification as a fallback. If you would rather not be interrupted, turn on Do not disturb on the Huddles page and the ring is suppressed while the inbox record still lands, so you never miss a missed call.

End-to-end encryption

A workspace admin can turn on End-to-end encrypt huddles in Settings, Security. When it is on, every call in the workspace encrypts its audio and video in the browser, so the media server only ever relays scrambled media and a lock badge shows in the call. This is a workspace-wide setting on the Pro plan or higher. As noted above, recording is unavailable while encryption is on.