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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.

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What is 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.).

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Managing your Spaces

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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 generated by the automation

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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).

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Exporting and importing Spaces

You can export a Space’s configuration as a file for backup or sharing:
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Open the Space

Navigate to the Space you want to export.
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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:
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Open the import dialog

From the Spaces list, click Import Space.
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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.

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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.

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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.

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Pausing and resuming

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

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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.

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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.

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Next steps

Sessions

Monitor automation runs and debug issues

Library

Browse reports and content generated by your Spaces