The Home screen explained

A tour of Home — the decisions inbox, trip cards with chat bubbles, plans waiting for review, notifications, and the buttons that start everything.

Verified for Limbo 1.9.3 · 2026-06-13

Home is Limbo's front door: your trips, the decisions waiting on you, and everything that arrived while you were away. Every signed-in member sees the same layout — some pieces only appear when there's something for them to show.

Home with a decisions inbox, trip cards, and both action buttons
Home with a decisions inbox, trip cards, and both action buttons

The header, left to right

  • Greeting — changes with the time of day. Purely decorative; it asks nothing of you.
  • Plans waiting for review — a circular envelope button that appears with your pending plans. It pulses when new plans are waiting, and a red badge shows how many you haven't seen yet (capped at 99+). These are bookings Limbo parsed from forwarded confirmation emails, plus AI-suggested plans. Tap it to open the review sheet: tick the plans you want, tap confirm, and anything left unticked is dismissed.
  • Offline cloud — appears only when you have no connection. Tap it for a quick explanation of offline mode; a banner also tracks the offline → syncing → all-synced journey. You can keep working — changes sync when you're back online.
  • Notifications bell — opens your notifications inbox. A badge shows your unread count, and tapping any notification jumps straight to the trip, plan, or ballot it's about.
  • Your avatar — opens Settings: account, crew, notification preferences, checklist templates, and archived trips.
Plans-for-review badge, notifications bell, and the settings avatar
Plans-for-review badge, notifications bell, and the settings avatar

The decisions inbox

When any trip has a ballot waiting on your vote, a horizontal row of decision cards appears above your trips — one card per pending ballot, sorted so the tightest deadline comes first. Cards only show while the ballot is still open; once a deadline passes, the card goes away.

A decision card — vote without leaving Home
A decision card — vote without leaving Home
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    Tap Yes, No, or Abstain directly on the card — the card flips to confirm your vote.
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    Or tap the card itself to open that trip's voting dashboard for the full ballot, deadline, and details.

Every trip member can vote on their own pending ballots. Once you've voted from the inbox, the card won't let you vote on that plan again — head to the voting dashboard if you want to change or remove your vote while the ballot is open.

Trip cards

Each upcoming trip gets a card. On it:

  • Tap the card to open the trip — Overview, Itinerary, Budget, and Checklist tabs.
  • Avatar stack — the faces of your crew, shown once the trip has at least two members.
  • Chat bubble — appears alongside the crew avatars and opens that trip's chat directly. A red badge on the bubble counts messages you haven't read.
A trip card: cover photo, crew avatars, and the chat bubble with an unread badge
A trip card: cover photo, crew avatars, and the chat bubble with an unread badge

If you have no upcoming trips yet, Home shows a hint box pointing you at the + button instead.

Start or join a trip

Two buttons live in the bottom-right corner:

  • Join a trip — the pill button. Enter the six-character code from a friend's invite link, preview the trip, and join. Anyone with a valid code can join; no special role needed.
  • + — the red circle. Starts a new trip, which makes you its owner.
Join a trip and the new-trip button
Join a trip and the new-trip button

Pull to refresh

Drag the screen down to refresh everything at once: your trips, pending ballots, plans waiting for review, and chat unread counts.

Permissions

member Everything on Home is available to every signed-in member. What varies is visibility: the decisions inbox needs a pending ballot, the chat bubble needs a trip with two or more crew members, and the chat unread badge needs unread messages.

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