Sidebar: a collapsible group for drafts saved for later

[EmanuelMedinaAraujo]

Problem

I often write a prompt I don't want to send yet. Usually that's because I'm close to my usage limit and want to save it for when I have some left, or because it's a bigger idea I'll get to someday. The draft is the right place for it, since its model, branch and worktree are kept.

But every draft sits fully expanded at the top of the sidebar, above Pinned, and the block has no header. That made sense for #5777: it's for drafts I left a minute ago to check another thread. It doesn't fit drafts I've saved on purpose for days or weeks. Once I have a handful, they push Pinned and Active down, and I can't collapse them the way I can collapse Working, Snoozed and Settled.

There are really two kinds of draft:

1. Drafts in progress: I'm coming back in a minute. These belong at the top, as they are today.
2. Saved ideas: prompts I'm keeping until I have usage left, or until the time is right. These should be easy to find but out of the way.

Proposal

Add a collapsible group for saved drafts. The name could be "Saved for later", "Backlog" or "Ideas"; I'm open on naming.

• A draft's context menu gets Save for later, which moves it into the group, and Move back to drafts, which undoes that.
• The group uses the same collapsible header as Working, Snoozed and Settled. It shows a count and is collapsed by default.
• In-progress drafts keep today's behaviour: always visible at the top, one click away.
• Saved drafts stay drafts. Opening one brings back its text, model, branch and worktree, and sending it works like sending any other draft.
• With no saved drafts, the group doesn't show.

A smaller first step would be to make the existing draft block collapsible, with a "Drafts (n)" header that's expanded by default. That alone helps, but it treats every draft the same, so you'd still collapse away the draft you were in the middle of.

Alternatives considered

• Moving all drafts to the bottom. This loses the "drafts in progress are one click away" behaviour from feat(web): keep unsent drafts one click away in the sidebar #5777.
• Snooze. Snooze is time-based and only works on threads that have been sent. A saved idea has no wake-up time and hasn't used any usage yet.
• Keeping ideas outside T3 Code. Then you lose the prompt's project, model and worktree, and have to rebuild them when you're ready to send it.

Related

• feat(web): keep unsent drafts one click away in the sidebar #5777: added drafts to the sidebar
• [Feature]: Model unsent drafts as real threads in a draft state, shown in Sidebar V2 #5534 / [Feature]: Model unsent drafts as real threads in a draft state, shown in Sidebar V2 #6895: drafts as real threads, with the same use case: "I'm out of usage for the window"
• Manual, collapsible thread groups with optional colors #11998: collapsible thread groups
• Add a setting to position the Working group at the top of the sidebar #16471: a setting to move the Working group to the top

I'm happy to implement this if the direction sounds right.