Oda marks the state of its work with small, consistent signals: dots, shaped glyphs, a connection control, chips, bars and compact numbers. This page explains what each one means.
Dots are the plain round marks beside a piece of work. There are five states:
| State | What it means |
|---|---|
| Done | The work finished. |
| Warning | Something wants your attention. |
| Ongoing | The work is running now. |
| Error | The work ended with an error. |
| Idle | Nothing is happening here yet. |
Rows and runs also carry shaped marks. Each state has its own shape, so the meaning still reads without colour, and a glyph never animates: the time beside it shows that the work is alive.
| Shape | State | What it means |
|---|---|---|
| Bullseye (a ring with a centre dot) | Running | The work is under way. |
| Hollow ring | Queued | It is waiting its turn. |
| Triangle | Needs you | It waits for your decision or answer. |
| Circled cross | Failed | It ended with a failure. |
| Check | Done | It finished. |
| Pause bars | Paused | It is paused. |
| Filled dot | Unread | You have not seen it yet. |
| Skip mark | Skipped | It was passed over. |
| Empty box | Idle | Nothing is happening; the space stays reserved so titles line up. |
Oda reaches your company's server for AI replies, company data and updates. A small status control reports that link, and where a press can help, the label itself is the button:
If the link does not come back, see Troubleshooting.
A progress bar or ring appears only when there is a real total to count against. Oda does not estimate progress, and there is no looping stand-in for it: if the total is not known, no bar or ring appears.
How a row of work shows its state, time and progress is covered in Activity rows and actions.
Tags and pills are both small chips, and they are different things:
A tag's tone says what kind of fact it carries:
| Tone | What it says |
|---|---|
| Outline | The default: a plain, read-only fact. |
| Solid | The current choice in a group; only one tag per group carries it. |
| Neutral | A fact with no status meaning. |
| Quiet | The same kind of fact, said more softly. |
| Accent | The one new or featured item, shown as New. |
| Success | Something is healthy or enabled. |
| Info | A classification, not a health signal. |
| Warning | Something wants attention, but has not failed. |
| Danger | Something failed. |
Oda writes ages compactly, so a chat you last used long ago still reads short:
A moment slightly ahead of the clock also reads now, so a time never counts below zero. The same chat is dated the same way everywhere it appears.
No. Nothing in Oda spins. A running state shows a quiet breathing arc, and the time beside it keeps counting while the work goes on.
Green means the work is done, amber means something wants your attention, red means an error, and quiet grey means the work is loading or idle.
It is an age, written short: 5min means five minutes ago, 3h three hours, 2d two days, 4mo four months and 1y one year. Anything under a minute reads now; days turn into months at 30, and months into years at 365.
Any age under a minute reads now, and a moment slightly ahead of the clock reads now as well, so a time never counts below zero.
Oda has lost its link to your company's server, and the message is also the button: press it to connect again. While Oda reconnects it reads Connecting; when the link is back it reads Connected and fades away on its own.
No. Oda keeps trying on its own, and the message updates itself when the link is back: it reads Connected and then fades away.
How far a piece of work has come, out of a total Oda knows. There is no looping stand-in: when the total is not known, no bar appears.
A tag is the read-only badge, and it never has an action. A pill is the capsule chip on a line of text: a button when it has something to do, and still when it only reports a value.
It is the accent tag that marks the one new or featured item in a group.
Short, with one decimal below ten and rounding from ten up: 312B, 4.3KB, 13KB, 1.5MB or 2.4GB.
A row shows at most two badges; when more apply, the extras collapse into a single +N count.