# Focus

What needs my attention today?

July 9, 2026

## Overview
Focus is where the reviews needing your attention gather — the ones still waiting on you to watch or to move along. Instead of searching the whole library, you can glance here to see what's outstanding. It remains quiet until something requires action and clears as you work through it; anything you've completed remains accessible under [All Reviews](https://help.sohonet.com/en/articles/742844-all-reviews).

What you see here depends on your role. For most people, Focus is a single **Queue**; if you manage the workspace, it opens into a larger, workspace-level view.

## Your Queue

The Queue holds the reviews currently waiting on you — the longest-waiting near the top, with new items pinned above. Each shows its type (Dailies Reel or Cut), where it originated, and its current status:

- **To Watch** — it's arrived and is waiting for a first look.
- **Watching** — you've started, and it remembers where you left off.
- **Awaiting Release** — you've watched it and you're a named releaser on its [workflow](https://help.sohonet.com/en/articles/742862-automated-workflows) stage, so it's waiting on your approval. [Releasing it](https://help.sohonet.com/en/articles/742862-automated-workflows#h_d15a275035) passes the review to the next stage and the people waiting there.

The thumbnail opens a review straight into the player. Clicking elsewhere on the row slides out the **review drawer** with more details about what's inside — a closer look at the review's contents before you dive in to watch.

Reviews leave the Queue on their own once you've dealt with them, and you can manually clear anything you no longer need to watch — the **×** shows on hover on the web, or on row swipe on iPad — keeping Focus tidy and free of clutter. When the Queue is busy, the **Project** and **Status** filters help narrow it down.

## If You Manage the Workspace

Workspace Managers receive an enhanced Focus, split into three tabs to help view what needs attention across the workspace, not only what's been assigned to you.

### Queue
Your own reviews, just like above — with one addition. Any review that **stalls** in a workflow anywhere in your workspace surfaces here as **Blocked**: once a review has been stuck on a stage for over three days without release, it appears in your Queue even if it was never assigned to you, ensuring that a delay doesn't slip out of view. You can release any stage of a review in a workspace you manage, so a blocked one is yours to advance.

### Projects
A broader view of everything currently **in flight** across the projects you manage — the reviews still progressing through a workflow, rather than those already completed. A review remains in flight until it settles: right up to three days after it reaches the workflow's final stage, then it drops away. Reviews are grouped by project, each with a count of what's in flight and what requires your attention.

_Coming soon:_ an at-a-glance view of who has and hasn't watched each review.

## Workflows _(coming soon)_

A board of reviews laid out across their workflow stages, for insight into what's moving and what's stalled.

A **New** badge means the review reached you in the last three days and hasn't been opened yet.