Skip to content
SpodusHelp Center
Contact supportOpen Spodus
Welcome
Get started
    • Set up your workspace
    • Find your way around
    • Search & Command K
    • Your profile
    • Language & time zone
    • Notifications
    • Quick capture & notepad
    • Customize Home
    • Import a spreadsheet
    • Import from your email
    • Merge duplicates
    • Export to CSV
    • Spodus for sales teams
    • Spodus for project leads
    • Spodus for finance
    • Spodus for support
Product
    • Contacts and companies
    • The record page
    • Edit fields inline
    • Notes on a record
    • Comments and @mentions
    • Files on a record
    • Linked records
    • Log calls and meetings
    • Owners and deleting
    • Capture and convert leads
    • Your deal pipeline
    • Win or lose a deal
    • Emails on a record
    • Call from Spodus
    • Filter, sort and group
    • Save a view
    • Table view
    • Board view
    • Calendar and timeline
    • Columns and fields
    • Edit statuses
    • Bulk edit
    • Spaces and boards
    • Gallery and org chart
    • Share a view link
    • Manage tasks
    • Subitems and checklists
    • Time-block your week
    • Home and Ask Spodus
    • Ask about a record
    • Ask from any page
    • Summarize and draft replies
    • Let Spodus do the chasing
    • Ask about a file
    • Slash prompts
    • Your chats
    • Dictate a question
    • Models and credits
    • Announcements
    • Create events
    • Calendar views
    • Add a video call
    • Find time to meet
    • Edit repeating events
    • Connect your calendar
    • Calendar settings
    • Team chat channels
    • Direct messages and threads
    • Message to task
    • Saved and pinned
    • Connect your email
    • Send an email
    • Shared inbox
    • Block senders
    • Run a client project
    • Milestones
    • Project profit
    • Close out a project
    • Plan team capacity
    • Notes
    • Write a doc
    • Write with Ask Spodus
    • Share a doc
    • Ask your docs
    • Organize your docs
    • Doc templates and export
    • Doc settings
    • Set up Revenue
    • Tax rates and services
    • Invoice design
    • Currencies
    • Revenue overview
    • Send a quote
    • What clients see
    • Quote payment terms
    • Quote to invoice
    • Send an invoice
    • Bill unbilled work
    • Record a payment
    • Chase overdue invoices
    • Credit notes
    • Client statements
    • Track expenses
    • Contracts and retainers
    • Send for signature
    • Change quotes
    • Export to accounting
    • Turn on the client portal
    • Invite a client
    • What your client sees
    • Milestone approvals
    • Contracts in the portal
    • Set up support
    • Routing rules
    • Set up SLAs
    • Answer tickets
    • Create a ticket
    • Ticket details
    • Macros
    • Help articles
    • Your help portal
    • Website widget
    • Support overview
    • Track time
    • Weekly timesheet
    • Timesheet approvals
    • Team hours and insights
    • Timesheet settings
    • Add a person
    • Teams
    • Org chart
    • Onboarding checklists
    • Employee documents
    • Request time off
    • Leave policy
    • Performance reviews
    • Workload
    • Build a dashboard
    • Sales reports
    • Revenue reports
    • Support reports
    • Time reports
    • Set a goal
    • Track goals
    • Approvals
    • Your first automation
    • Triggers
    • Actions and conditions
    • Automate from a view
    • Run history
    • Canvas view
    • Automation settings
    • Webhooks
    • Build a form
    • Form logic
    • Design and settings
    • Publish and embed
    • Form responses
    • Create a sequence
    • Sending settings
    • Enroll contacts
    • Manage recipients
    • Sequence stats
    • The outbox
    • Unsubscribes
    • Share a mailbox
Account and admin
    • Invite your team
    • Roles & permissions
    • Security settings
    • Turn modules on and off
    • Custom fields
    • Custom boards
    • View packs
    • Trash
    • Join a team workspace
    • Two-factor sign-in
    • Sign in with Google
    • Reset your password
    • More than one workspace
    • Sample data
    • Leave a workspace
    • Workspace branding
    • Team access
    • Hand over a member's work
    • Apps
    • API keys and webhooks
    • Audit log
    • Share a board with people
    • Export and delete your data
    • Plans and billing
    • Go-live checklist
Resources
  • Blog
  • Security
  • Status
  • Contact support

Messages·Updated Oct 16, 2026

Direct messages and threads

Send a direct message to one teammate or a small group, reply to a message in a thread, forward a message, and edit or delete what you wrote.

A direct message is a private chat with one teammate or a small group. A thread keeps the replies to one message together, beside the conversation, so the main chat stays readable.

Things to know

  • You can message anyone who is a member of your workspace.
  • Press Enter to send a message. Press Shift+Enter for a new line.
  • You can edit or delete only your own messages. Deleting a message also deletes its replies, and it can't be undone.

Send a direct message

  1. In the left rail, click Messages.
  2. Hover over Direct messages in the sidebar and click New direct message (the + icon).
  3. Search for and pick one or more people.
  4. Click Start chat, or Start group chat if you picked more than one person.
  5. Type your message and press Enter.

In a group chat, click Conversation options (the ⋮ icon), then View members to see who is in it.

Reply in a thread

  1. Hover over a message.
  2. Click Reply in thread.
  3. The thread opens on the right. Type your reply and press Enter.
  4. Click Close thread (the X) when you're done.

Under a message with replies, Spodus shows who replied and how many replies there are. Click it to open the thread.

Forward a message

  1. Hover over the message and click Forward.
  2. Search for a channel or a person.
  3. Click Forward.

Edit or delete your message

  1. Hover over your message and click More (the ⋮ icon).
  2. Click Edit, change the text and press Enter to save. Press Esc to cancel.
  3. Or click Delete, then Delete again to confirm.

Leave a conversation

  1. Open the direct message and click Conversation options (the ⋮ icon).
  2. Click Leave conversation and confirm.

The conversation and its messages stay for everyone else. You stop seeing it.

Related

  • Team chat channels
  • Saved and pinned
  • Message to task
PreviousTeam chat channelsNextMessage to task
© 2026 SpodusPrivacyTermsStatusspodus.com

On this page

  • Things to know
  • Send a direct message
  • Reply in a thread
  • Forward a message
  • Edit or delete your message
  • Leave a conversation
  • Related