# Pathways

**Pathways** are a feature in Daisychain that allows you to create a flexible, stage-based framework for organizing.

### How to Use Pathways

**1) Add a pathway.**\
Navigate to the Pathways section of Daisychain. To create an empty Pathway, just click "Add a Pathway" and give your pathway a name. To build off a template, scroll to the bottom of the page and select a template that is a good fit for your work.

**2) Create and modify Stages.**

Stages are sections of your pathway that you can place people into.

**3) Add Cards and move them through your Pathway.**

Cards are representations of People in a Pathway. You can click on them to expand them and see more details about a person, send messages, add notes, and edit information.

Tips on Using Pathways:

* **List View**: You can toggle from the default pathway view to see a simplified "list view" that displays name, stage, and basic contact info (email and phone) without the stage-based visualization:\
  ![](/files/23gPVNdJARovq7In6u3C)​
* **Assignment Filters:** If multiple people are using the same pathway, it can be useful to filter it by Assignment. Just click the initials of a given User to filter the Pathway to only show the People assigned to that User.<br>

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* **Conversations:** You can start a conversation with everyone in a given stage of a pathway by clicking the three dots a the top of the stage, and then selecting "Start a Conversation."

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{% hint style="warning" %}
If you use the "Start A Conversation" feature from a filtered view, you will send a message to ALL people in that stage, not just the people visible after the assignment filter is applied.
{% endhint %}

* **Power Ups:** Certain integrations come with "Power Ups" for Daisychain Pathways. For example:
  * **ControlShift Petitions:** this power-up enables you to view information about ControlShift petitions directly in a card.
  * **Mobilize Nearby Events:** this power-up enables you to view information about the closest Mobilize events directly in a person's card.

### Pathway Automations

You can automate actions when someone moves from one stage to another in a Pathway.

#### How to Add a Pathway Automation

1. Open your Pathway and click the **⚡** lightning icon in the top right.
2. Click Add to create a new automation
3. Pick which transitions this automation should respond to:
   * Any stage transition in this pathway: fires whenever someone moves stages
   * From a specific stage: fires when someone leaves a given stage
   * To a specific stage: fires when someone arrives at a given stage
   * From one stage to another: fires only for that exact transition
4. Click Save
5. Then, define what action(s) should happen when the automation is triggered. The available actions are the same as the ones in [Automations](/help/organizing/automations.md), including sending text messages and emails, tagging people, making assignments, etc.


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