---
audience: beginner
summary: Presence, notifications, mute, quiet hours, and snooze.
title: Manage your availability
path: tutorials/first-steps/manage-your-availability
status: published
---

# 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) — `@you` and 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](/docs/scaiwave/tutorials/power-user/catch-up-on-busy-rooms) — when you do come back to a noisy room.
- [Concepts: Notifications](/docs/scaiwave/concepts/notifications).