Help: ThoughtFlow¶

ThoughtFlow is a way of working with your thoughts: you note bugs, features and ideas as they come, and send them on to your AI agents when you're ready, one at a time or as a batch. It is off until you turn it on.

Why work this way¶

A long chat costs more than it looks. Every prompt you type makes your agent read the whole conversation again, so twenty small prompts are paid for twenty times over, and the agent acts on the first ones before it has heard the rest.

ThoughtFlow turns that around:

• You think first, for free. Noting a thought costs nothing. Flesh out one idea, or several, at your own pace; nothing is sent and no agent runs until you say so.
• A batch is read once. Send a sprint and your agent reads all of it in one go, instead of once per prompt: fewer tokens for the same work.
• A batch is understood better. Related thoughts that arrive together show what you want overall. Sent one by one, the first has no context: the agent guesses, and you spend more prompts correcting it.
• Nothing waits on you. A thought you sent is answered when the agent gets to it and you read the answer when you come back, in the thought itself. No session sits open burning tokens in between.

This is what a sprint and a Focus are for: they hand your agent a fuller set of thoughts, and the topics that go with them, as one piece of work.

Who answers: a background designer agent¶

ThoughtFlow works best with your designer agent running in the background, so whatever you send is picked up while you go on thinking, with no chat to keep open. Start your designer as a background agent in your favourite agentic setup (Claude Code, or any other), giving it your project's onboarding link: it registers itself and shows up as available on the Agents page. From then on a thought, a sprint or a Focus you send reaches it, and its answers come back in the thoughts themselves.

Turning it on and off¶

Pages that have a flow form show a small ThoughtFlow chip beside their title. Press it and an info box says what it changes on that page; Activate ThoughtFlow turns it on for you, on every device and project. Press the chip again to turn it off: the page goes back to its simple form and nothing is lost.

What it changes¶

• Thoughts: your thoughts are grouped into Chats (thoughts you sent to an agent, with its answers), the Inbox (your pending bugs, features and ideas) and Others; cards get a checkbox, and you can Send a thought to an agent or Send (N) the Inbox to your designer. More: Thoughts › send, Thoughts › streak.
• Search: your own thoughts and the topics come together as cards, best match first, each marked as a thought or a topic.