Glossary of Rodeo terms | Rodeo Docs

Workspace

Your team's home in Rodeo. Every page, database and board lives in one, and each has its own members and plan. See Your first workspace and page.

Space

A group of pages inside a workspace, usually one per team or topic. Open spaces are visible to everyone in the workspace; Closed ones can be seen and requested, but their pages need membership; Private ones are invisible to non-members. See Spaces.

Owner

The one person who controls a workspace: billing, transfer and deletion. See Archive, transfer or leave a workspace.

Admin

A member who can also invite people, change roles and manage billing.

Member

Someone who belongs to the workspace and takes a seat.

Guest

Someone shared into specific pages only. Guests can't see the rest of the workspace and never take a seat. See Members, roles and invites.

Seat

One paid place for a member (owners, admins and members, not guests). Paid plans charge per seat. See Plans and limits.

Page

A document. Pages can hold other pages, called sub-pages. See Pages and nesting.

Block

One piece of a page: a paragraph, heading, image, table or a whole database. Press / to add one. See The editor in two minutes.

Mention

A live link to a person, page or date, made with @. See Page mentions and links.

Backlink

A link back to a page from every page that mentions it. See Backlinks.

Synced block

A block that appears on several pages and stays the same everywhere. See Synced blocks.

Template

A ready-made page or database to start from. See Templates.

Suggested edit

A proposed change someone can accept or reject. See Suggested edits.

Peek

Opening a page or row in a side panel without leaving the one you're on. See Peek and tabs.

Verification

A wiki page's owner confirming it's still correct, until a set date. See Wiki and page verification.

Context

A preset that tells Rodeo AI what kind of page this is, with matching actions. See Contexts.

Look

A visual theme for Rodeo, and a workspace's house style. See Looks and house style.

Database

A collection of rows that share the same properties, like a smart table. See Database basics.

Row

One entry in a database. Every row is also a page you can open. See Row pages and row templates.

Property

A column: text, number, select, status, date, person and more. See Properties.

View

One way to see a database: table, board, calendar, timeline, gallery, list or chart.

Relation and rollup

A link from rows in one database to rows in another, and a summary calculated across those links. See Relations and rollups.

Formula

A property calculated from other properties. See Formulas.

Automation

A rule that does something when a row is added or changed. See Automations.

Board

An infinite canvas of notes, sources and AI chats. See What a board is.

Node and wire

A card on a board, and a connection between cards that feeds one into another. See Nodes and wires.

Source

A link, file, video or recording added to a board for AI to read. See Sources.

Credit

The unit board AI chats are measured in. Each plan includes credits every month. See AI chats and credits.

AI request

One use of Ask AI, editor AI or the AI block. Unlimited on every plan except the Founders' Deal. See Usage.

Founders' Deal

A one-time payment for Team-level Rodeo for life, for one workspace of up to 10 members. See Founders' Deal.

Allowance

A plan's monthly amount of a metered feature, such as meeting minutes. See Usage.

Personal access token

A secret that lets a script use the REST API as you, in one workspace. See Personal access tokens.

Scope

One permission a token or connected app has, such as pages:read.

MCP

Model Context Protocol, the open standard AI tools use to connect to Rodeo. See Connect Claude, Cursor and other AI tools (MCP).

Connected app

An AI tool you've allowed to use your Rodeo account over MCP.

Site

Pages published to the web as a website. See Sites.