# Activity, notes and blockers > The activity feed, adding notes and replies, note types, resolving blockers and their flag, editing or deleting notes, and which notes reach Slack or Teams. > > Source: https://roiva-staging.com/docs/activity-notes-and-blockers > Checked against the product on September 19, 2026 Every initiative keeps a record of what happened to it. Notes add what that record can't know on its own: why something was decided, or what's holding the work up. #### Where to find activity - **One initiative:** open it and choose the **Activity** tab. The newest events come first. A dot on the tab means something has happened since you last opened it. - **Home:** the **Recent activity** section shows the latest few events from the last two weeks. Your own notes and stage moves are left out there. See [Home, search and notifications](https://roiva-staging.com/docs/home-search-and-notifications). - **Every initiative:** from **Home**, choose **View all activity**. The **Activity** page shows the same events across the whole account, 25 to a page, each under its initiative's name, with nothing left out. You can search by initiative, connection or the words of a note, and filter by **Initiative** or **User**. #### What the feed records Roiva adds a line whenever something changes on an initiative. Each line names who did it, or says "Roiva" when the change was automatic: - The initiative being created, and the template it came from, if any - Stage changes and completed approval steps - Value entries submitted, approved, auto-approved, held for review or disputed - Cost entries logged, recurring costs added, changed or removed, and cost suggestions applied - Implementations added, removed or changing status - Connections linked or unlinked, and vendor changes - Documents added or removed - Fields Roiva filled in for you, and auto-configure runs - Notes, and blockers being resolved or reopened #### Adding a note On an initiative's **Activity** tab, choose **Add Note**. On the **Activity** page, choose **Add Note** and pick the initiative. Choose a **Note type**, write the note, then choose **Add Note**. - **General**: anything worth writing down - **Decision**: what was decided, and why - **Blocker**: something holding the work up. It flags the initiative until someone resolves it (see below). - **Update**: progress news Every other line in the feed has an **Add Note** link under it, which opens the same short form in place. Anyone on the account (Owner, Admin or Member) can add a note to any initiative. A new note counts as activity on the initiative. An initiative with no activity for 30 days is flagged as dormant. #### Replies Choose **Reply** under a note to answer it. Replies sit in a thread under the note, one level deep. A reply takes its note's type, and it doesn't add a line of its own to the feed. #### Editing and deleting a note The ⋮ menu at the top right of a note has **Edit** and **Delete**. **Edit** lets you change the note's type or text; choose **Save** when you're done. Deleting removes the note and its replies, and the feed shows "Note deleted" where the note was. Replies can't be edited or deleted on their own. Only the note's author, or an Owner or Admin, can edit or delete a note. Members don't see **Edit** or **Delete** on anyone else's notes. A note with no author, such as one in the sample data, can be changed only by an Owner or Admin. Editing a note doesn't send it to Slack or Teams again. Changing a resolved Blocker into another type drops its **Resolved** mark, since only a blocker can be resolved. The feed still records that it was resolved. #### Blockers While a Blocker note is open, its initiative is flagged: - A **blocker** chip shows on the initiative's row in **Initiatives**, and in the **Initiatives** list on Home. Hover over it to see why. A row shows up to three chips and collapses the rest into **+N**. - The initiative counts toward Home's "initiatives flagged" link, and it's included when you open the **Initiatives** list on the **Readiness** lens and filter **Gap** to **Flagged**. - If you open it from a flagged row on Home, the initiative shows a **Flagged for attention** banner with a **See the blocker** button. Only initiatives that aren't Completed, Rejected or Dismissed are flagged. Blockers don't add a row to your **Inbox**. When the blocker is no longer in the way, choose **Mark resolved** on the note. The note stays in the feed, marked **Resolved** with who resolved it and when. The flag clears, and the feed records that it was resolved. To put the flag back, use **Reopen Blocker** in the note's ⋮ menu. Anyone on the account can resolve or reopen a blocker, whoever wrote it. Only the blocker note itself flags the initiative: replies in its thread don't. #### Slack and Microsoft Teams If you've connected Slack or Microsoft 365 for notifications, new Decision, Blocker and Update notes are posted to the channel with the initiative's name, the note and its author. This only happens if **Notes** is ticked on that connection. General notes and replies are never sent. See [Managing a connection](https://roiva-staging.com/docs/managing-a-connection). #### Finding notes later The search box finds notes by their words and lists them under **Notes**. A note found this way opens on its own page, with **Edit** and **Delete** if the note is yours or you're an Owner or Admin, and, for a blocker, **Mark resolved** or **Reopen blocker**. #### Asking the Assistant You can ask the Roiva Assistant to add a note to an initiative. It saves a General note in your name, which shows in the feed like any other, but isn't sent to Slack or Teams. For a Decision, Blocker or Update note, add it yourself. When you ask the Assistant about an initiative, it also reads that initiative's most recent notes. See [Using the Roiva Assistant](https://roiva-staging.com/docs/using-the-assistant).