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# Your home screen and getting started

Your home screen combines a personal next step with community posts. Creatures asks up to two quick questions only when it needs more context. If no questions appear, use the **Get started** shortcuts already shown.

## Personalize your first steps

If **What brings you to Creatures?** appears, choose the answer that fits best. You can also select **Skip for now**.

![What brings you to Creatures choices for breeding, pets, farms, rescues, services, registries, shows, and genetics storage](https://cdn-test.creatures.com/aaa/4ad/376/20a9b.png?width=1760)

After you answer, Creatures may ask which species you work with most. Choose a species, **Something else**, or **Skip**. Creatures then shows a short **Get started** row, such as adding an animal, importing existing records, creating an organization profile, browsing the directory, or following nearby breeders.

![Species choices for Cattle, Donkey, Horse, Dog, Cat, Chicken, Sheep, Goat, Something else, and Skip](https://cdn-test.creatures.com/058/6ac/931/264cd.png?width=1760)

The answers only personalize suggestions; they never limit which species or tools you can use. Selecting **Skip for now** hides the first question for a while and shows general shortcuts instead.

## Browse the community feed

The feed contains posts and shared activity from the Creatures community. When more posts are available, select **Load more posts** at the bottom. New results appear after the current feed, and the button tells you when there is nothing else to show or when a retry is needed.

As you add animals, the greeting can suggest useful missing work, such as adding parents, a photo, registration details, a value, or a Creature Card. Dismissing a suggestion hides it for about three weeks; it does not change the animal.

## Open the Dashboard for active work

Home is for discovery and quick suggestions. **Dashboard** is where applications, purchases, sales, bookings, transport, records, and other work that needs your action is organized.

An empty action center says **All caught up** or **Nothing urgent right now**. That means nothing in Dashboard currently needs your response; it does not mean your account is incomplete.

To make the home experience more useful, start with [adding your first animal](https://help.creatures.com/en/article/adding-an-animal-to-creatures-jbkkre/) or [import several animals together](https://help.creatures.com/en/article/importing-your-animals-bring-them-all-in-zufngq/).

### Related information

- [What is Creatures?](https://help.creatures.com/en/article/what-is-creatures-1c5f9ow/)
- [Creating your account and signing in](https://help.creatures.com/en/article/creating-your-account-and-signing-in-1a6d30c/)
- [Notification and account settings](https://help.creatures.com/en/article/notification-and-account-settings-mzlidj/)