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Thoughts (/thoughts, in the Toolbox and your user menu) is your own locker for quick notes: a bug you noticed, an idea, something to look up. Type it in the box at the top and press Save it. Nobody else sees your thoughts: not the project's admins, and nobody else's AI.

Why note it instead of prompting¶

A thought costs nothing to write, and nothing runs until you send it. Collect what you have in mind, then send it together: your AI reads a batch once and sees what you want overall, where a string of separate prompts is paid for again each time and leaves the first ones without context. That is ThoughtFlow.

Capture and tag¶

• #tags in the text tag the thought, and [[links]] link to topics. #important (or #top) marks its card red.
• Where it goes: the chip under the box says which of your projects the thought is saved on; tap it to pick another.
• What you type is kept in the box until you save it, even across a refresh.
• Archive it saves a thought straight into the Archive, for things you want kept but out of the way.

Find them again¶

• Views: Recent (not archived), Not tagged, Archive.
• Projects: your thoughts from every project you're a member of are here together; pick one to see only its thoughts.
• Tags have three looks, one tap each: plain, selected (only these show) and hidden (red: these are hidden, and that is remembered for you on every device). While anything is hidden, a line above the list says so, with Show all.
• The site search finds your thoughts too, in a Your thoughts group only you see.

Edit, move, delete¶

Tap a card to open it in place: Save, Archive, History (every save is a version), Delete (to your Trash), and a project picker that moves it to another of your projects. ⤢ opens it in the big box at the top.

Send a thought to an agent¶

Master projects. Write @designer (or another role, or an agent's name) in a thought and press Send: it goes to that agent, who answers inside the thought with Done or Questions and a ↳ Your answer line. Type under that line and send again. These are your Chats. A thought to @monitor is answered as a question only, never carried out.

The streak¶

Master projects. Your pending #bug, #feature and #idea thoughts collect in the Streak section. Send streak hands the ticked ones to your designer in one message, who turns them into pipeline tasks and sends them straight to the pipeline (to keep them from running, hold the pipeline); each thought then says Became task P-n and is archived. One the designer has questions on comes back with them, see After you send.

• What goes in: every thought tagged #bug, #feature or #idea that isn't sent or archived yet. A #note or an untagged thought stays out; tap ^^ on its card to promote it in. By voice: ok new bug, ok new feature and ok new idea go in, ok new note doesn't (Voice).
• Leaving one out: untick its box. It skips the next send only and is back, ticked, after that.
• Start fresh: Clear all moves every thought in the streak down to Others, unticked, and they stay there, even after your next send, until you tick one again.
• In a Focus: a thought in a Focus is out of the streak, so it is never sent twice. It comes back if you take it out of the Focus or archive the Focus.

A Focus: thoughts and topics together¶

A Focus groups the thoughts and topics that belong to one piece of work, with your own notes on top, so you can think it through in one place and send it as one. Make one with Group in focus on Thoughts (tick the thoughts first) or from a thought; its page opens at once. The ⓘ by its title opens this section, and the first time you open a Focus a small box says what it is.

• The map: your Focus sits in the middle. On the right, its topics (orange squares); on the left, the model: the classes (violet) and features (teal) its thoughts name. A line joins each to the Focus, a dotted line two that link to each other. Tap one to open it below the map; tap the middle to come back to your notes.
• Related topics: topics your notes mention but the Focus doesn't hold yet show grey; + Add makes one a member (orange). Add at the top adds a new thought or searches for more.
• Fold the map: ⌄ at its top right folds it to one line that stays at the top as you scroll and follows you: what you tap, and the classes and topics you type. ⌃ opens it again; the page remembers.
• Your notes: the editor under the map is the Focus's own text. A member thought opens in the same place with Save, and Thread now when you have a question on that one thought.
• Take thoughts out: tick their cards, then Take N out by the Thoughts heading (it shows once one is ticked). They go back to Thoughts and into the streak again.
• Send focus (at the top) asks first: it sends every thought, the topic links and your notes to your designer, as one task (the default) or split by feature.
• Dissolve focus (at the top) asks first: every thought goes back to Thoughts and the streak, your notes go into the first thought, and the topics are not changed. On a Focus of one thought, Back to a thought does the same.

After you send: whose turn it is¶

Master projects. A sent thought is either waiting on the designer or waiting on you.

1. Waiting on the designer. A sent thought carries #sent and has no checkbox: it can't go into the streak again while the designer has it.
2. Waiting on you. When the designer answers but needs your say first, the answer shows on the card, it's tagged #ai-question and its checkbox is back. Reply if you want more, or leave it until you're happy.
3. Ok, go. Happy with the answer? Tick it into the streak. It goes as ok, go and is handled like any other thought: enough to go on, it becomes tasks; anything missing, it comes back to you as #ai-question.
4. Ended in tasks. The thought shows its tasks (Became task P-n) and is archived.

Tasks made from your thoughts are sent to the pipeline, not parked. If you don't want them worked on yet, hold the pipeline.