Calls with your team and Nebula
Start a live call in any Nebula channel, talk the work through with your team and Nebula, show it your screen, and come away with a recap of decisions.
You can start a live call in any channel to talk the work through with your team and Nebula. When it ends, you get a recap of what was decided.
Start a call
Start a call in a channel and anyone in that channel can join. A call in a DM rings the other person.
| Where you are | How to start |
|---|---|
| In a channel, or your Nebula DM (Home) | Click Talk in the Here box in the side column - its full label is Talk to Nebula. If a call is already running, the box lights up, shows who's on it and the button reads Open, with Join on the faces. |
| Anywhere on your computer | Press ⌘⇧C (Ctrl+Shift+C on Windows and Linux) to open QuickLive, or choose Go Live from the tray menu. Press Tab to pick a channel, then click Start a call. |
Open the channel and tap the phone button beside the message box. You can also open the channel's Calls tab and tap Start Call. The same tab lists the channel's earlier calls.
On desktop, a call opens in its own window with three tabs: Chat, Tasks and Recap. Muting, your camera, inviting people and leaving all work the way you'd expect, and Call settings holds your microphone, speaker and camera.
Nebula on the call
Nebula joins every call. It listens along and answers questions. It can also hand off work as a task without anyone leaving the call. The tasks it starts appear in the call window's Tasks tab, where you can follow each one's steps, stop it, or open what it came back with. The tab lists only the tasks this call started, not the channel's other work. Their results also land in the channel.
Nebula, can Prospect Researcher start briefs on the top three upgrade accounts while we keep going?
Started a task for Prospect Researcher on those three accounts. The briefs will land in q4-launch when they're ready.
Answering aloud or working in the background
An agent on a call is either in the chat or in the background. To switch it, click its seat on the call stage. The tooltip reads Move to the background or Bring to the chat. On your phone, tap the agent on the stage.
| In the chat | In the background | |
|---|---|---|
| Speaks aloud | Yes | No |
| When you address it | Answers out loud | Answers in text |
| Keeps listening and working | Yes | Yes |
| Best when | You want it in the conversation | You want it on the work, without a voice in the room |
On a call with just you, an agent in the chat answers every turn. In a group call it answers whatever someone says to it, then goes quiet so the people can keep talking.
How Nebula sounds, and what wakes it
On desktop, each person picks how their own Nebula sounds on calls. Open Settings → Account → Voice, or Call settings → How your Nebula sounds during a call. Choose a Voice (Hear it plays a sample), or turn off Speak replies out loud to make your calls text-only, with live captions and written replies.
In a call with other people, Nebula answers when it's addressed. Wake on “Nebula” lets its name do that, and Custom wake words adds your own. These settings apply to calls you start in that workspace. Admins choose the workspace's voice models in Settings → Workspace → Calls.
Agents on a call
Nebula is the one agent on the call. Specialist agents on the channel's team don't join. Instead, ask Nebula to start the work while you talk, and the tasks land in the channel. It can also post to, or start work in, another channel you can post in, or your own Home, acting as whoever asked.
That makes a call a good place to run a standup. Try:
- "Nebula, run our standup: what the team finished yesterday, what's running today, and what's blocked."
Show Nebula your screen or camera
Share your screen or turn your camera on, then ask Nebula what it sees. It can describe what's there, read the text, find something on the screen or summarize it. That makes it useful for a dashboard, an error message or a whiteboard you're holding up.
I'm sharing the pricing page draft. Nebula, does anything on it contradict what we decided about annual plans?
The banner still says annual plans save 15%. We agreed on 20% earlier in the call, so that line needs updating.
You can also ask Nebula to keep an eye on your screen or camera, and it will speak up when something changes. It can run at most two screen or camera watches at a time, and they end when the call does.
On a Mac, sharing your screen needs Screen Recording permission. If it's missing, the share picker offers Open System Settings. Turn Nebula on under Privacy & Security → Screen Recording, then relaunch Nebula before you share.
The recap
The recap builds while you talk. On desktop, open the Recap tab beside the call. On your phone, tap the recap button at the top of the call. Either way you get a short summary, then three running lists.
What the call has covered so far.
What you agreed on, so nobody has to reconstruct it from memory afterwards.
What's still unresolved, ready to pick up in the channel or hand to an agent as a task.
Each list shows its newest three items. Click +N earlier to see the rest.
When the call ends, the summary stays with the channel. On desktop, click the history icon (Past sessions) at the top of the Here box: it lists any live call and the channel's recent ones, each with a line saying what it was about. Pick one to open its record, with its Summary and Transcript. On your phone, the channel's Calls tab lists the calls started in the channel.
Ask about a call afterwards
You don't have to go and open the recap. Ask in the channel the way you'd ask a colleague - "Nebula, what did we decide on the call?", "Nebula, what are my tasks from yesterday's sync?", "Nebula, recap the call for #eng" - and Nebula finds the right call and answers from its summary.
Ask for someone's exact words and Nebula reads the transcript instead. Ask while a call is still running and it'll answer from the notes so far, and tell you they're incomplete.
For call problems, email support@nebula.gg. Nebula can help you write up what happened.
Common questions
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Tasks, scheduled tasks and monitors
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