Hoot, your assistant
Ask in plain language — and Hoot can actually change things, within your permissions.
Hoot is the assistant built into Noots. Ask it about your work — "what's due this week?", "summarize the last design meeting" — and it answers from what's in your workspace. It can also *do* things.
What Hoot can do
- Find tasks by project, assignee or status, and read one in full.
- Create, edit and delete a task, including its description, priority, assignee, due date and estimate.
- Add a checklist item, and tick or untick one.
- Comment on a task — attributed to you.
- Update a Noot's description, start date or target date.
- Draft a new Noot — see below.
Drafting a project
Ask Hoot to start a project and it writes a draft and hands you a doorway: the ordinary creation card, pre-filled with the name, description, dates and members it worked out. You go through the normal steps and press the button yourself. Members it couldn't match to a real person are dropped and it tells you which. The link is drawn by the app, not typed by the model, so it is a link somebody checked.
What Hoot cannot do
- It cannot create a Noot, and it cannot delete one. It drafts; you create. There is no delete-project tool at all.
- It cannot exceed your own permissions. Every action re-checks what *you* are allowed to do, against the database — not against the conversation. If you can't do it, Hoot can't do it for you, and insisting doesn't change that.
- It cannot see a project you can't. A private Noot you're not on returns nothing, exactly as if it didn't exist.
There is no confirmation dialog — Hoot acts and then tells you exactly what it changed. Everything is attributed to you in the activity log, and deletes are the same soft delete as the board, so anything removed is recoverable from the bin.
The bubble above Hoot
Hoot also speaks first, in a small bubble above its launcher, when there is something worth one sentence. It is one at a time and at most one every four hours — except a meeting about to start, which is exempt, because a reminder that waits for a cooldown is not a reminder.
- A meeting is about to start — and only to the people on the invitation; declining takes you off it. If the meeting has a link the bubble carries a Join button.
- Autopilot is waiting on you, on a project you lead.
- Unread mentions of you.
- Work that has gone late, and the check-ins nobody has answered.
Between 22:00 and 07:00 in your own timezone, and whenever you have notifications muted, the bubble stays quiet — including about a meeting. Ignoring one puts it away rather than re-offering it on the next poll, and you can switch the whole thing off in Settings. If you would rather ask than be told, Hoot's panel lists what it has noticed on demand.
Hoot is at its best for a catch-up after time off: ask what changed on your projects while you were away, then ask it to tidy up what it finds.