Chat

Chat is your lightweight personal space in Tines 3B for quick tasks and questions. When you want to ask something, pull a quick summary, or knock out a small job without building a full workflow, chat is the place to do it, and it's plugged into all your connectors so it can actually reach your tools.

Chat is deliberately lightweight. It's the right tool for a single question or a small task: "What did I miss in Slack today?", "Which pull requests are waiting on my review?", "Draft a reply to my oldest support ticket." That's a different job from building a workflow, which is about creating something reliable you'll run again and again. Chat trades that permanence for speed.

Every new chat opens with a friendly greeting and a handful of example prompts drawn from the connectors you actually have, so there's always an obvious place to start.

What makes chat more than a place to type questions is that it can reach the connectors you already have access to. Ask about your calendar, your issues, or your deals, and chat can pull the real data, with authentication handled for you.

It works within your permissions: chat can use a connector only if you're allowed to use it, so it never reaches further than you can. It can also do more than read, drafting messages, creating tickets, and running quick bits of code when a task calls for it.

Your chats are yours. Only you can see and interact with the chats you start; they aren't shared with your team or tied to a space's access list. That makes chat a safe scratch space for half-formed questions and works in progress.

You can keep several chats going at once, each in its own tab. Pin the ones you want to keep close, reorder them to suit how you work, and switch between them freely.

Because quick chats pile up fast, Tines 3B helps you stay tidy: chats you leave idle are closed automatically after a while, and you can tidy up stale ones, close them all at once, or reopen anything you closed from your history. You can also fork a chat to branch off in a new direction, or download one to keep a copy.

Sometimes a quick task turns out to be worth repeating. When a chat has done real work, an option appears to turn it into a workflow, carrying what you did into a space where it becomes a proper, reusable automation.

This is the natural bridge from chat's fast, throwaway style to the durable side of Tines 3B, so you never have to rebuild something from scratch just because you started it in chat.