Manage your availability
ScaiWave lets you signal whether you want to be reached, when, and how loudly. There are five knobs.
1. Presence#
The dot on your avatar. Click your profile button (bottom-left) → presence picker:
- 🟢 Online — at your keyboard.
- 🟡 Idle — signed in but not active. Auto-set after 5 min without DOM events.
- 🔴 Busy — "please don't ping me unless urgent." Sticky until you change it.
- ⚪ Appear offline — show as offline to most people. Sticky.
Pick Switch to auto-detect to go back to automatic online/idle/offline based on activity.
2. Per-room notification mode#
The 🔔 menu in the chat header:
- All messages — every send pings you.
- Mentions only (default) —
@youand keyword alerts. - None — silent. Room still updates; you just don't get pings.
- Inherit global default — uses your account-wide default (under Settings → Notifications).
3. Mute (timed)#
Same menu → Mute → pick a duration: 1h, 4h, 8h, until tomorrow morning, until next week, or a custom expiry. The room shows a 🔕 indicator until the mute auto-clears.
4. Quiet hours#
Settings → Notifications → Quiet hours. Set a daily window (e.g. 22:00–07:00 in your timezone). During quiet hours:
- No desktop notifications.
- No sound.
- Messages still arrive; you'll see them when you check.
5. Snooze a single message#
Hover any message → menu → Snooze. Pick 1h, 4h, tomorrow, or custom. At the snooze time, the message re-fires as a fresh notification.
Use this when you can't deal with something now but don't want it to fall off your radar.
Keyword alerts#
Settings → Notifications → Keyword alerts. Add phrases. When a
phrase matches in any room (case-insensitive, word-boundary), you're
notified even on mentions or none.
Examples: your team name, project codename, "incident", anything you must not miss.
Priority inbox#
Sidebar → Priority inbox. An AI scans the rooms you've muted or
backgrounded and surfaces things it thinks you should see anyway:
direct mentions, questions to you, keyword matches, messages tagged
priority by senders. A safety net for "I muted that room and now
something important is buried in it".
Cross-device#
Everything above syncs across all your devices. Mute on your phone → desktop is also muted. Read a message on your laptop → the unread counter clears on your phone too.
Where to go next#
- Catch up on busy rooms — when you do come back to a noisy room.
- Concepts: Notifications.