A Sidebar with Groups section · IdeaFlow Team stream selected Click name = filter to group · click chevron = expand to tags · gear on hover
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J Jacob Cole you 2 hours ago

Met with the team at Lattice today. They're building basically the same hashtag-based capture we are, but for HR. IF#competitor IF#customer — could be both, they showed interest in OEM-ing the editor.

Action items: send them the API doc, follow up Tuesday.

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S Sarah Kim yesterday

Design review for the new sidebar — see this Figma. Pinged @jacob + @david for sign-off. IF#design

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J James Park ↗ from Slack · #biz Apr 12, 2024

also #biz #wins awesome IF#customer IF#userinterview with Founder's Pledge today — 70 person org, pays $30k/yr for Salesforce.

They said the deciding factor was the inline-tag UX. IF#salesforceuser

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D David Liu ↗ from Slack · #competitors Mar 2, 2024

Roam dropped a new "smart blocks" feature this morning. Different framing than ours but solves the same atomic-capture problem. IF#competitor

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B Share dialog with Group picker Reuses existing NoteShareDialog; Groups row sits above People row
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C Hashtag autocomplete with team attribution Team-owned tags show the group glyph; private tags show no badge (or a 🔒)
Just talked to a prospect at Acme Robotics. They were burned by their last knowledge tool — they want something that’s not a giant wiki. Going to follow up Friday. #comp
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D Slack import — pre-populate IdeaFlow Team Source: ~/Downloads/slack-export · 110,083 messages · 2,880 hashtagged · 1,202 distinct tags

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~/Downloads/slack-export/
Slack official zip · Jan 31 2015 → Feb 3 2026

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Author mapping

7 of 9 Slack users matched to Notestream accounts by email.

✓ jacob@ideaflow.io → Jacob Cole
✓ sarah@ideaflow.io → Sarah Kim
✓ james@ideaflow.io → James Park
⚠ alex.bot — no match (skip or attribute to "Slack import")

Preview · top tags by frequency

Top 12 of 1,202 — see full taxonomy for tail. Tags with count ≥ 3 (≈ 247) become SharedHashtag rows owned by IdeaFlow Team.

#bug · 283
#tweak · 260
#teamstream · 197
#idea · 101
#usecase · 91
#tradle · 79
#feature · 65
#explainingideaflow · 58
#customer · 46
#competitor · 46
#userstory · 43
#book · 44

Sample messages that will become notes

#biz
James ParkApr 12 2024 · 1 reply

also #biz #wins awesome #customer #userinterview with Founder's Pledge — 70 person org pays $30k/yr for Salesforce …

#competitors
David LiuMar 2 2024

Roam dropped "smart blocks" — different framing, same atomic-capture problem. #competitor

#design
Sarah KimJan 18 2024 · 4 replies

v9 sidebar mock done — testing the expand-tag pattern. #design #designphilosophy

#general
Jacob ColeNov 9 2023 · 2 replies

Met Anika at the conference — strong PM background, ex-Notion, looking. #potentialhire

#mew-product
James ParkJul 4 2023

filed #bug #p1 — drag-to-reorder breaks if you drag onto a collapsed parent. Need to fix before launch.

+ 2,875 more messages with hashtags, each becoming a note with author, timestamp, channel attribution, and thread replies as note children.

File: mockups/groups-v1.html · Open in browser to interact (the chevrons on groups are clickable in a real build).