Rooms

All 21 room types, one guide each.

• Choosing your roomsHow rooms work in Openbook, how to add them, and which of the 21 room types fits each job.
• FeedRun a social feed for your team with posts, polls, kudos, pinning, and a bulletin board sidebar.
• Project StatusReplace status meetings with structured written updates, a goals board with red-amber-green status, and a full history timeline.
• Table BoardBuild spreadsheet-style trackers with typed columns, colored draggable groups, bulk actions, and ready-made templates.
• KanbanRun the full agile cycle — backlog, sprints, story points, workflow rules, automations and recurring cards — with rich cards, Git links and AI.
• AI AgentA room whose occupant is an agent — connect a repository, give it knowledge, skills and tools, and hand it stories from a board.
• Q&ABuild a private, searchable question-and-answer knowledge base with tags, voting, and accepted answers.
• DiscussionsA forum room with categories, topics and threaded replies — run it as a question board with upvotes and accepted answers, or as a plain discussion board.
• Check-inRun scheduled async standups and pulse surveys with mood tracking, status flags, team analytics, and publishable digests.
• DocsWrite specs, notes, and guides in a block editor with a slash menu, rich blocks, infinitely nested pages, and inline search.
• WikiKeep runbooks, conventions, and reference pages in a markdown knowledge base with a side-by-side, GitHub-flavored live preview.
• DashboardBuild a live reporting canvas from your boards — stat tiles, charts, and progress bars that update as the work changes.
• WhiteboardAn infinite multiplayer canvas for brainstorms, diagrams, and workshops — sticky notes, shapes, connectors, pen, and frames.
• GanttTimeline planning with drag-to-schedule bars, dependencies, milestones, and critical path — plus an AI generator for the first draft.
• RetroRun real-time retrospectives with 12 formats, voting and grouping, an AI summary, and actions exported to CSV.
• GroupMember-run communities — ERGs, guilds, and clubs — with open or closed membership, their own feed, and a roster.
• EventA team events hub with upcoming, past, and calendar views, one-click RSVPs, and a discussion thread per event.
• ChatChannels, DMs, presence, and unread badges — real-time chat inside one space, and how it differs from the organization chat that follows you everywhere.
• ProofingCreative review with annotations pinned to the pixel, time-coded video notes, versioning, and formal per-reviewer approvals.
• FeedbackCollect customer requests on a public portal, rank them by revenue and a weighted score, move them across a roadmap, and close the loop with a changelog.
• Time OffRequest, approve and see PTO in one room — an approval queue or auto-approve, allowances, company holidays, a who's-off view and a calendar feed.
• Town HallCompany-wide events with sessions, stages and speakers, five ways to broadcast, live chat, recordings, guest links and a browsable archive.