Product Update: Your new Activities inbox, a smarter sidebar, and a lot more

It has been a while since our last big product update, and that was on purpose. We spent the past months heads-down on something bigger than a few new buttons: rebuilding how you keep track of everything happening in Rock, from the sidebar up.

Here is the short version.

‍Why now: the old space list and notifications could not keep up once you had more than a handful of spaces.

‍What we did: reorganized your whole workspace around staying on top of work, with a new Activities inbox, a redesigned sidebar, automatic archiving, a refreshed sign-in, and in-app Personal Access Tokens.

‍What to expect: further improvements to notifications/integrations in the next few weeks.

Here is what is new.

Everything that needs you, in one place: the Activities inbox

Your sidebar now has an Activities inbox that gathers everything waiting on you. Messages, topics, tasks, notes, and anything else land in five clear buckets, so nothing slips through the cracks.

Open any bucket in a side panel and filter it down to Unread, Mentions, or DMs. When you are caught up, one Mark all as read clears it. Scheduled messages show up here too, and everything is grouped by workspace so you can scan fast.

Start your day in one place instead of hunting across spaces.

Jump straight to mentions when you only have a minute.

See what is scheduled to go out, alongside everything else.

Notifications are next on our list. The Activities inbox is the first piece of a bigger fix to how and when Rock notifies you, and more improvements are already in progress.

A redesigned sidebar that scales with your workspaces

The whole space list got a redesign. Workspaces now nest their spaces inline, with unread indicators right where you expect them, so moving between teams is one click.

A new quick-filter search lets you jump to any space by typing part of its name. The collapsed icon rail is cleaner, dark mode is easier to read, and your profile and settings now live at the bottom of the list. Each workspace has its own menu for settings, invites, and creating a space without leaving the sidebar.

Quiet spaces tidy themselves: auto-archive

Spaces with no activity for two weeks now archive themselves and move out of your sidebar, so your list stays focused on what is active.

Nothing is deleted. An archived space is one click away under Archived, you can unarchive it anytime, and it comes back on its own when there is new activity. If a space you expected is not where you left it, check Archived or search for it by name.

Find Rock Support right where you need it

We gave the Rock Customer Support channel a new home.

The support chat used to sit inside your space list, mixed in with your real conversations. Now it lives on a dedicated button on the bottom-left rail.

It stays out of your conversations, and it is one click away when you need a hand.

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Personal Access Tokens, now in Settings

You can now create and manage Personal Access Tokens directly in Rock. A token lets an outside tool act as you through the Rock API, so you can connect scripts, CLI tools, and AI agents to your workspace.

How to set one up: open your avatar menu, go to Personal Access Tokens, click Create new token, give it a name and an expiry, and copy it once. Revoke it anytime from the same place.

Connect an AI agent that reads and writes in your spaces as you.

Run a script that posts a daily standup to a space.

Build a custom report from your Rock data.

A one-click way to connect Rock to AI assistants like Claude is coming soon. Until then, the token works today for developers and automation.

A refreshed sign-in

Logging in and signing up got a cleaner, split-screen design with a language picker and clearer options. We also tightened security by blocking sign-ups from disposable email domains, and improved accessibility for screen readers and contrast.

Plus a long list of improvements and fixes

We shipped a lot of smaller refinements this release. The highlights:

Sidebar and navigation

Quick-filter search built into the space list.

Sections and folders auto-expand when they have unreads.

Unread now shows as a clean brand-blue dot instead of a count.

Profile and settings row added at the bottom of the list.

Your avatar opens Quick Settings.

Per-workspace menu for settings, invite, and leave.

Create a space straight from a workspace header.

"+ New direct message" shortcut in the DMs section.

Decluttered the left rail and unified the top icons for a tidier look.

Clearer dark-mode header legibility and collapsed-mode polish.

More accurate, monotonic recency sorting of spaces.

Chat

Long URLs now show clean, readable labels.

Links to tasks, notes, and files resolve inline without opening the mini-app first.

Spaces and invites

Redesigned invite dialog down to two clear actions: invite by email or share a link.

Invite-by-link now drops you directly into the right space, and handles the "already a member" case.

Workspace admin can be assigned from the member menu.

Personal space

Reopens to your last-used view (chat, tasks, notes, topics, or drives) and expands your space list on entry.

Activities and notifications

DMs filter chip, scheduled messages surfaced inline, and a batch of panel anchoring, scrolling, and read-marking fixes. More on the way.

Sign-in

Disposable-email handling moved server-side, screen-reader announcements, contrast and layout fixes.

Billing and stability

Restored the Stripe billing-portal link and fixed a dark-mode logo.

Removed an event-listener cap so large numbers of workspaces stay responsive.

Handled locale chunk-load failures gracefully.

Assorted popup, routing, and crash fixes.

Try it

Open Rock to see your new Activities inbox and sidebar, or sign up for free if you are new here. And expect the next update a lot sooner than this one. Questions? Reach us in the customer support space by clicking the question mark in the bottom left corner of your view.