Home Room Tutorial

Your Home Room is the personal hub automatically created for every NotaeLibrary member. Think of it as your private apartment inside the library — it belongs only to you and is always waiting when you log in.

Unlike public Study Rooms (which you join or are invited to), Home Room is never visible to other users. It is the place where all your personal reading activity, bookshelf, notes, and AI assistant live.

Every Home Room comes with a built-in Personal Assistant (PA) — an AI reading companion that lives in your room's chat. Unlike general AI tools, your PA has context about:

• Books on your shelves and reading progress
• Study Rooms you belong to and their reading lists
• Your reading history and preferences over time
• Upcoming events and tasks you've created

Use your PA to get book recommendations, summarise chapters, ask follow-up questions about something a Study Room discussed, or just think aloud about what to read next.

While Home Room is private, Study Rooms are collaborative spaces shared with other readers. Each room is built around a community, book, series, or topic and can contain:

Every Study Room has a Bulletin Board — your first stop whenever you enter a room. Think of it as the corkboard by the door: a quick read before you dive into chat or posts.

The Bulletin Board pulls together the most important information about what's happening right now in the room:

The Bulletin Board replaces what was previously called “My Desk” — the name change reflects its real purpose: a shared, at-a-glance summary for the whole room, not a personal workspace.

There are three ways to get into a Study Room:

Once you join a room, it appears in your My Rooms sidebar and the My Rooms widget on this page. You can switch between rooms from the left sidebar while inside any room.

The Your Rooms' Feed section in the middle of your Home Room is one of the most powerful features. It aggregates every post from every Study Room you belong to into a single chronological stream — no need to check each room individually.

• New posts and discussions from all your rooms appear here
• Unread items are counted and shown as a red badge
• You can click any item to jump directly into that room's thread
• Click Full feed → for the paginated full-screen view

Your personal Bookshelves live inside Home Room and are completely separate from any Study Room's reading list. You can create shelves like Currently Reading, Finished, Want to Read, or any custom shelf you like.

When you open a book from the catalog (Search Catalog) and start reading, your progress is automatically saved. The Continue Reading strip at the top of Home Room picks up exactly where you left off.

Any Study Room you belong to can host Events — scheduled meetups, live read-alongs, author Q&As, or virtual discussions. All upcoming events from all your rooms are consolidated in the Upcoming Events widget on this page and in your Calendar.

• Events show title, date, time, and which room is hosting
• Some events require an RSVP — click the event to confirm attendance
• Virtual events include a meeting link that activates at start time
• In-person events include a location field

Here's a map of where to find things:

New to NotaeLibrary? Run through this checklist to get fully set up: