How-To

How to Message Your Connections

Private in-app messaging with anyone in your connections — start a chat from their dossier or jump straight to your messages from the top bar. Free on every account.

free 1 min read Updated 2026-06-04
In short

Message anyone in your connections — from their dossier or the header icon. Free on every account.


Direct Messaging lets you chat privately with anyone in your connections — share insights, coordinate plans, or just stay in cosmic sync. It's free on every account, and there are two ways in.

Start a chat from a connection

  1. Open Connections from the menu. Tap your avatar in the top-right corner and choose Connections.
The account menu — open Connections
The account menu — open Connections
  1. Open your person's dossier. On the Connections page, open the person you want to message.
Your connections
Your connections
  1. Tap MESSAGE. At the top of their dossier, next to ABOUT and REPORT, tap the MESSAGE tab.
Tap the MESSAGE tab on their dossier
Tap the MESSAGE tab on their dossier
  1. Type and send. Write your message and send it — your conversation lives here from now on.
Your private chat
Your private chat

…or jump straight to Messages

  1. Tap the messages icon in the top bar. The speech-bubble icon in the header takes you straight to your conversations.
The messages icon in the header
The messages icon in the header
  1. See all your conversations. Your message threads are all in one place.
All your conversations
All your conversations
  1. Open any chat. Tap a conversation to pick up where you left off.
Open a conversation
Open a conversation

That's Direct Messaging — private, free, and built into your connections. Don't have people to message yet? See How to Add People.

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