The Home section under Streams is where you have the consolidated view of the activities of which you are a part. All the activities in which you have participated by a comment, or in which you have been @mentioned or invited as a guest or individually shared with you appear in 'Streams to me'. All the posts you have added as favourite appears in the Favorites Tab and any post initiated by you in any form as a Status/ Task/ Note/ Event/ Bookmarks or an email shared by you appears in Streams by Me tab.
You can post private posts or individual messages/ tasks/ notes/ bookmarks or events from the Home section. If you select a group from the drop-down, the content will be posted in the Group Streams. Instead, if you just tag a particular person or a set of users to the post, it will be a private post between you and the respective users.
When you post a private post to others or share an email with others, all of them will appear under Streams by Me and will not be linked to any of the groups.
You can also do group mentions in a Streams private post. This option is helpful when you wish to share a private post with a group. To mention groups, go to a private post you have created, and in the comments section, you can mention any Streams group by typing @group-name.
Streams to Me is the consolidated view of the following:
The 'Streams to Me' tab will be available only on the Streams homepage. The specific groups will have only the consolidated view of all the posts made to that group.
You can easily view the 'Unread' posts or the posts in which you were '@mentioned' by selecting the respective tabs.
Streams by Me is the consolidated view of all the posts or Streams threads initiated by you:
You can easily view and track all the items which you own across groups, or to individuals in one shot.
All the unread posts across your different Streams groups are listed here. They are grouped as Direct messages and under the group names, the post belongs to.
You can empty this tab by clicking on the Mark all as read option on the top right corner. You can also use the Mark as Read option next to each group name or Direct message header.
Invites - The posts that you have been invited to view are displayed in this tab.
Favorites -To keep track of certain posts, or to save them for future reference, you can add a post to favorites. This can be done by clicking on the Add to favourites icon on the upper portion of the post. These posts will separately appear under the Favorites tab.
@Mentions- Any posts in which you have been @ mentioned can be viewed under this tab
Attachments - All the attachments that have been shared in a particular group can be viewed under the Attachments tab. On hovering over the attachment, you can find related options such as 'Attach to new Email', 'Download' etc. There is also a provision to open the linked message or task right from the attachment view.