# Tasks and sessions

Canonical URL: https://support.optiqube.ai/en/articles/tasks-and-sessions

Everything you create in OptiQube starts in a **task**: a conversation with the agent about one catalog campaign. The screen where that conversation happens is called a **session**. You can leave a session at any time and pick it up later where you left it.

## Ways to start a task

- **+ New task** in the sidebar, then describe what you want. See [Start a new task](https://support.optiqube.ai/en/articles/start-a-new-task).
- **Ideas to try** on the New task screen. These are suggestions from the calendar, your catalog and your own campaigns: an upcoming season (*Plan your Black Friday campaign now*), a category with no ad yet (*“Earring” has 40 products and no ad yet*), or a style you have not tried (*Try Product Only on your products*). Click **Show all ideas** for the full list, or **Not now** to hide one.

  ![Ideas to try](/images/creating-creatives/ideas-to-try.webp)
- **Use this style** on any style in the [Inspiration library](https://support.optiqube.ai/en/articles/inspiration-library).
- **Copy an ad**, to rebuild an ad you like in your own brand. See [Copy an ad you like](https://support.optiqube.ai/en/articles/copy-an-ad).

## The session screen

![A session: the conversation, a finished direction card and the message box](/images/creating-creatives/session-layout.webp)

- **The conversation** shows your messages, the agent's questions and each round's results.
- **Direction cards** appear in the conversation as each direction finishes. Click a direction to talk about just that one.

- **The message box** at the bottom. The chip above it shows what your message applies to: **Whole session**, or a single direction's run. Remove the chip to talk to the whole session again.
- **The credits bar** under the message box shows your balance and the credits held for rounds that are still running.

While a round is running, you can already type a note; it stays in the message box, and you send it when the round ends. The stop button cancels the round.

## Direction cards

Each finished direction has a card with its images and buttons, including:

- **Open large** opens the direction in the large view, where you refine it and roll it out. See [Refine and regenerate creatives](https://support.optiqube.ai/en/articles/refine-and-regenerate).

- **Preview as Meta ad** shows how the creatives look in several Facebook and Instagram placements.

![A finished direction card](/images/creating-creatives/session-direction-card.webp)

## Find, rename and archive tasks

Your tasks are listed under **Recents** in the sidebar.

- Click the **⋯** next to a task to **Rename** or **Archive** it.
- Click the icon next to **Recents** to change the view:
  - **Show:** Active or Archived tasks. Archived tasks are not deleted; you find them here.
  - **Group by:** None, Campaign, Date or State.
  - **Sort:** Last activity, Alphabetical or Date created.

![The Recents view options](/images/creating-creatives/recents-filter.webp)