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Tour the main window

Where everything is: your meetings, to-dos, people and settings.

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Open the Jiva window

Click the lotus in the menu bar, then Open Jiva Window.

Step 1: Open the Jiva window
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Use the top strip

The strip at the top holds what you use most: Record starts and stops a recording. Auto-record lets Jiva start by itself. To-dos opens your list. Overlay shows or hides the on-screen summary. Settings opens everything else.

Step 2: Use the top strip
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Find a meeting

Your meetings are on the left, newest first. Type in Search to find any of them.

Step 3: Find a meeting
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Read a meeting

Click a meeting to open it. Use the chips under the title to jump to Summary, Action items or Transcript.

Step 4: Read a meeting
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Open To-dos

Click To-dos. What you owe is on the left. What others owe you is on the right. Action items from your meetings land here.

Step 5: Open To-dos
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Open People

Switch the list from Meetings to People. Click a person to see when you last spoke, what is open between you, and every conversation.

Step 6: Open People
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Open Settings

Click Settings for permissions, recording, dictation, your calendar and the rest. Each area has its own page in the list on the left.

Step 7: Open Settings
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If something goes wrong

I can’t find the lotus in the menu bar

A full menu bar can hide it. Open Jiva from your Applications folder; the Jiva window opens.

The People list is empty

People appear after you record meetings and name the speakers.