Find your way around Rhythms

Last updated: September 16, 2026

Rhythms has three parts on screen: the left sidebar for getting around, the main area where you work, and the chat panel where you ask Rhythms to do things for you. This article walks through the sidebar from top to bottom, says what each area is for, and points you to the article for each task.

The sidebar

The left sidebar is the same on every page. From top to bottom:

  • New Chat and Chats: start a conversation with Rhythms, or open the list of all your conversations.
  • Search Rhythms: search OKRs and documents. Press / anywhere to open it.
  • Command Center, if enabled for your workspace: a personal page of what needs your attention.
  • Inbox: your notifications.
  • Exports: appears once you have exported something, and lists your export files.
  • Favorites: views, documents and chats you have starred.
  • Recent: documents and chats you have opened lately.
  • Workspace: OKRs, Library, and under More, Reports, Views, Teams and Users. Depending on what is enabled for your workspace you may also see Initiatives, Playbooks, Skills, Marketplace and Operating Memory.
  • Your teams: each team you belong to, with its own OKRs, Initiatives and Reports.
  • Links your organisation has added, then Help (contact support), My connectors, and, for Rhythms Admins, Settings.

You can drag items to reorder the Favorites, Recent and Workspace sections and move items above or below the More cutoff. Press [ to collapse or expand the sidebar; when collapsed it shows icons only. Press ? to see all keyboard shortcuts.

OKRs

OKRs is where objectives, key results and initiatives live. The tabs across the top are views a Rhythms Admin has pinned; a new workspace starts with My OKRs, your company's OKRs and All OKRs. Use the filter bar to narrow by team, owner, time period, status and more, and Display options to switch between Alignment tree, List, Board, Alignment graph and Strategy map, and choose grouping, sorting and columns. Press Shift + R to expand or collapse every row at once.

Click an OKR to open it. Its ⋯ menu includes Cascade to Teams, which opens a chat that proposes aligned OKRs for each of your teams. When you write a title, the Improve button (or Suggest when the field is empty) asks Rhythms to sharpen it and explain why.

Start with Creating OKRs and initiatives, Managing and updating OKRs, Effective check-ins and AI goal authoring.

Views

Views is the library of every saved OKR view: the ones Rhythms created, the ones you made and the ones shared with you. Create views here, favourite them for your sidebar, and share them with people or teams. See Create and share OKR views and Filtering and grouping OKRs in views.

Library

Library holds your documents and layouts. Switch between Documents and Layouts at the top, and use Create a document or Create a layout to have Rhythms build one in chat, for example a monthly business review generated from a saved OKR view. Documents can refresh themselves on a schedule, be shared, commented on and exported to Word. See Reviews and layouts, Documents auto-refresh and Sharing documents.

Reports

Reports shows the health of your OKR program rather than the performance of the business: check-in coverage and compliance, alignment, connector coverage, adoption and at-risk OKRs, sliced by team, manager or person. Everyone can open the Organization OKR Program Pulse. See Monitor OKR program health with Reports.

Teams and Users

Teams shows your organisation's team tree. Teams can nest as deep as you need, and each team gets its own OKR and report views. Users lists everyone in the workspace with their role and manager. See Create and manage teams and User management.

Inbox

Inbox collects your notifications in one list: check-in reminders and nudges, mentions in comments and check-ins, delegation changes, shares and access requests, approval requests, connector status changes and notices about deactivated colleagues. Click one to open the OKR or document it is about.

Chat

The chat panel opens beside whatever you are looking at; press \ to show or hide it, or open a conversation full screen from Chats. Ask Rhythms to create OKRs, run a check-in, build a view, write a document or export a deck, and it acts on the page you have open. Conversations are saved and appear under Recent; star one to keep it in Favorites. Rhythms also works in Slack and Microsoft Teams; see Getting started with Rhythms in Slack.

Search

Press / or click Search Rhythms. Results are grouped into All, Objectives, Key Results, Initiatives and Documents. See Using quick search.

Connectors and Settings

My connectors is where you connect your own accounts, such as Jira, Planner or Google Sheets, so key results update automatically every day. See How to set up auto-updates. Settings, visible to Rhythms Admins only, covers the workspace: general options, connectors, users, teams, time periods, permissions and terminology. To add your own links to everyone's sidebar, see Add links to your sidebar.

Optional areas

Some areas appear only when enabled for your workspace. Command Center is a personal, editable page summarising what needs your attention. Playbooks runs recurring work for you, such as a weekly review document; see Creating and running playbooks. Skills holds reusable instructions Rhythms follows in chat. Marketplace offers ready-made solutions to install. Operating Memory shows what Rhythms has learned about your organisation. If you do not see one of these and think you should, ask a Rhythms Admin.

FAQ

I cannot find Views, Reports or Teams in the sidebar. They are under More in the Workspace section. Click More to expand it, or drag them above the cutoff so they are always visible.

Why do I not see Settings? Settings is only shown to Rhythms Admins. Members and Guests can change their own profile from the account menu at the bottom of the sidebar.

What are the keyboard shortcuts? Press ? for the full list. The most used are / for search, [ to toggle the sidebar, \ to toggle chat and Shift + R to expand or collapse all OKRs.

Which OKRs can I see? Rhythms only shows you OKRs you have permission to view, in every page and export. See OKR visibility.

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