Team messages and voice

Use Team & inbox in Nock’s left pane to talk with teammates, your other computers, and connected agents. The larger Team Inbox window can be moved and resized. Team in Chat Manager opens a compact conversation view; Settings → Team is where you manage connections and sharing.

If no one is connected yet, start with Team invitations or Connect an agent. Direct messaging does not require a local coding chat.

Start a conversation or reply

1. Open Team & inbox and choose + New conversation.
2. Choose a teammate or connected agent. Check the person and computer context, especially when names are similar.
3. Add an optional Topic, such as “Website launch,” then choose Open conversation.
4. Type in the message box and choose the send arrow.

To reply, open an existing conversation and use the same box. Nock keeps the sender’s exact address and the topic with your reply. Renaming a contact or topic does not redirect it.

Sent and received messages appear together in time order. Team saves message history on this computer so it can reopen after restarting Nock. Scroll the history independently of the conversation list; the composer stays below it. If new messages arrive while you are reading earlier ones, use New messages ↓ to return to the latest. Search finds contact names, topics, and message previews.

Drafts stay with their conversations during the current window session. Switching to Nock updates or Invite does not send them. Closing the window discards unsent drafts, so send or copy important words before closing.

Dictate text or record your voice

These are two different actions:

• Dictate uses your existing dictation setup to put spoken words into the text box. Read or edit them, then send the text.
• Record voice makes a playable recording of your own voice, up to 15 seconds and 32 KB. Stop recording, preview it, or choose Remove recording. Send the clip on its own or with a text message.

Recipients choose Listen to play a recording; it never plays automatically. Team voice notes are recorded messages, not a live call, and incoming recordings are not automatically transcribed. An older Nock client may show only the accompanying text. Update both computers for playback; an outside agent must support the audio it receives to use it.

Sending a voice note sends the recording to that recipient. The local-only dictation setting controls speech recognition; it does not keep a voice note you choose to send on this computer.

If recording is unavailable, check microphone access or send dictated or typed text instead. If a recording is too large, make a shorter one. Voice storage is bounded and recordings expire after seven days; text messaging can continue when voice storage is full.

For an image or other file, use Team files.

Understand the status before sending again

Queued for check-in means Nock accepted the outgoing message for the recipient’s mailbox. It does not prove the other computer received it, a person read it, an agent checked in, or the work finished. Outside agents check their mailbox only when their host calls the inbox tool; connecting them does not make them monitor it continuously.

Opening visible incoming messages clears their unread badge on this computer. That local read state is not a read receipt from the other person. A file has a separate File received by their Nock receipt, which still does not mean opened or read.

If a send fails, read the error and check the conversation before retrying. If delivery is unconfirmed, check with the recipient or inspect the destination chat first; a second new message could duplicate work. Keep the Nock host open with Team on and its computer awake for messages and remote-agent check-ins.

Make the inbox easy to recognize

Open Details in a conversation to set:

• Conversation title: your local display title for this conversation.
• Contact nickname: your local label for the exact recipient.
• Category: a folder-like grouping on this computer.
• Your display name: the name advertised to teammates on the next refresh.

The exact delivery address remains visible in Details. Use a clear display name or nickname when a person has several devices. Your local labels do not rename their account, change membership, or change the recipient.

Use + Category to add, rename, or remove categories. Removing a category does not delete its messages. Inbox, Unread, Archived, and the category names filter the list.

Choose Archive to move the current conversation out of Inbox while retaining its history, addresses, and delivery records. In Archived, open it and choose Restore before replying. Archive is local organization, not deletion or recall; it does not extend attachment retention. New incoming messages can appear in Inbox again.

Details → Appearance offers Glass, Light, Dark, and Grey. Glass uses the supported Mac material; Windows uses a legible solid surface. System reduced-transparency settings can change the Mac treatment.

Ask Nock to help with a message

On supported voice-agent paths, you can ask Nock to check Team messages, read an earlier conversation, or draft and send a reply. Nock should use the actual inbox and exact recipient, not guess from a name. Check the recipient and message in any send approval before confirming. Reading messages does not itself authorize sending or running their requests.

For a handoff, include the result so far, the specific next action, and relevant links. A text handoff does not attach local files. To deliver a received request into a coding chat, use the separate controls in Shared chats and Team handoffs.

Team conversations are not Nock Social private messages. Social is the separate community website at social.heynock.com and uses its own login.