> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.gobihq.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Join a space

> Spaces are invitation-only. Here's what happens when yours arrives.

Everything you capture lives in your private Home. A **space** is
the other half of Gobi: a place a team, a company, or a group of
people share into together. You don't browse or search for
spaces — you get invited to one.

## The invite link

Most invitations arrive as a link — in a text, an email, a Slack
message. Invite links look like `gobispace.com/htkzmak`, or a
named one like `gobispace.com/acme`. Tap it, confirm, and you're
in — no application, no waiting for approval.

If you don't have Gobi installed yet, the link takes you through
the App Store first, and your invitation is waiting when you open
the app.

## Invites waiting in the app

Some invitations skip the link entirely — a space member invites
you directly, and the invite arrives in Gobi itself. Find yours
in **Account settings → Invites**:

<Frame>
  <img src="https://mintcdn.com/gobi/j-62gQzZhm1EQQWb/images/space-invites.png?fit=max&auto=format&n=j-62gQzZhm1EQQWb&q=85&s=cf4656823aeb599ade486bc0675e3c2f" alt="The Invites screen, showing a pending space invitation with Accept and Decline" width="402" height="874" data-path="images/space-invites.png" />
</Frame>

Each invite shows the space, its size, and who invited you —
accept or decline right there. Nothing joins on your behalf: an
invitation waits until you answer it.

## Or enter a link yourself

If your invite link is sitting on another device or buried in a
thread, you can join by hand — choose **Join with a link** from
the Invites screen, or **Join an existing space** from the
Spaces tab:

<Frame>
  <img src="https://mintcdn.com/gobi/j-62gQzZhm1EQQWb/images/join-space-entry.png?fit=max&auto=format&n=j-62gQzZhm1EQQWb&q=85&s=19a2d423623df3095a38aa54cf365ee0" alt="The Join an existing space screen, with a field for entering an invite link" width="402" height="874" data-path="images/join-space-entry.png" />
</Frame>

Paste or type the link and join. If you can't find yours, ask
whoever invited you to send it again — or to invite you directly,
so it lands in your Invites.

## What joining does — and doesn't

Joining a space adds a place you can share into. It doesn't open
a window into your Home:

* **Nobody sees your captures.** Your Home stays yours. Joining
  a space exposes nothing you've captured — sharing is a decision
  you make [one capture at a time](/spaces/share-a-capture).
* **You see what's shared with you.** Inside a space, life
  happens in [channels](/spaces/channels) — what you see depends
  on the channels you're part of.
* **Leaving is clean.** What you shared into the space was shared
  by choice; what you never shared was never there.

## Once you're in

The space appears in your Spaces tab alongside any others you
belong to, its activity starts arriving in your
[Inbox](/spaces/inbox), and its [space agent](/spaces/space-agent)
is ready to answer questions from what the space knows. Start by
reading the room — then share something worth remembering.
