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Overview

A Space is an automation that Friday creates and manages for you. When you describe what you want Friday to do — a daily news digest, a weekly report, a monitoring alert — Friday builds a Space that contains everything needed to run that automation. You can view and manage all your Spaces by clicking Spaces in the left sidebar.

What’s inside a Space

Each Space contains:
  • Trigger — What starts the automation (a schedule, an event, or a manual run).
  • Processing logic — The steps Friday takes to gather data, analyze it, and produce results.
  • Integrations — Which services the automation connects to (Slack, Google, GitHub, etc.).
  • Output — Where results are delivered (email, Slack channel, Notion page, etc.).

Managing your Spaces

Viewing a Space

Click on any Space in the sidebar to see its configuration and recent execution history. You can see:
  • The automation’s schedule or trigger
  • Recent sessions (each time the automation ran)
  • The current status (running, paused, or stopped)
  • Resources and artifacts generated by the automation

Editing a Space

Click Edit Space to access configuration options:
  • Rename your Space to something more descriptive.
  • Color code your Space (yellow, green, blue, red, purple, or brown) for visual organization.
  • View connected integrations used by the Space.
  • Delete the Space if it’s no longer needed (requires confirmation).

Exporting and importing Spaces

You can export a Space’s configuration as a YAML file for backup or sharing:
1

Open the Space

Navigate to the Space you want to export.
2

Export the configuration

Click the Export option on the Space detail page. A YAML file containing the Space’s trigger, processing logic, and integration references will download to your device.
To import a previously exported Space:
1

Open the import dialog

From the Spaces list, click Import Space.
2

Upload the YAML file

Select the exported YAML file. Friday will validate the configuration and create a new Space from it.
3

Reconnect integrations

If the imported Space uses integrations that aren’t connected in your account, Friday will prompt you to connect them before the Space can run.

Modifying a Space via chat

To change an automation, tell Friday in chat what you’d like to update. Reference the Space by name or description:
Change my news digest to run at 8am instead of 10am
Add competitor X to my monitoring automation
Include pricing data in my weekly report
Friday updates the Space while preserving your execution history.

Running a Space manually

You can trigger any Space on demand by asking Friday:
Run my news digest now as a test
Friday will execute the automation immediately and show you the results.

Pausing and resuming

To temporarily stop an automation:
Pause my weekly report
To start it again:
Resume my weekly report

Spaces and Sessions

Every time a Space runs, it creates a session. Sessions are the execution records — they show what happened during each run, what data was processed, and what output was generated. You can view session history for a specific Space by clicking on it, or see all sessions across all Spaces from the Sessions view.

Spaces and the Library

When a Space generates output — a report, a data export, a summary — that content is stored in the Library. You can access all generated content from the Library in the left sidebar.

Next steps