Chat Sidebar

Chat Sidebar replaces bb's sidebar thread list with a chat list. bb's own sidebar rows stay where they are: New thread, plugin pages, and the footer.

What you get

• One row per task. Sub-agents and forks fold into their parent chat. A waiting sub-agent marks the parent as needing you, and the row counts the busy sub-agents. Right-click the row to jump to any of them.
• Status you can read at a glance. Each row shows whether the chat needs you, is working (and on what: a workflow, background agents, a goal, the environment), finished unread, or has an unsent draft. Statuses that other plugins set on a row show up too.
• Folders. All, Attention (waiting, working, or unread), one tab per project in order of use, one tab per bb section, and Archive. Each tab has an unread badge and a status dot. Right-click a tab to mark everything in it as read or to start a new chat there. Drag a folder to move it; on a touch screen, hold it first.
• Your own folders. Like Telegram's: pick chats by status, project, section, agent, words in the title or branch, how long they have waited, or when they were last active, and add or leave out chats by hand. Start from ready-made ones such as "Waiting over an hour" or "Failed today". Hide, rename and reorder any folder, and give it an icon and a colour. The folders sync across your devices, the last 20 versions are kept, and deleting, resetting and restoring ask first.
• Project colours. Each project gets its own colour on its chats' avatars, from the clearest colours first, so a few projects never end up with near-identical hues. Right-click a project tab, heading, or chat to pick one of 15 colours. The pick is saved in bb and shows on all your devices, and a folder about one project wears its colour.
• New chat where you are. The + next to search starts a chat in the open project's folder, or in the open section. Right-click it to pick any project.
• Search. Filter by title, project, branch, or sub-agent title. Enter opens the first match, and the arrow keys move through the list.
• Messenger order. Pinned chats come first in your manual order. Drag them to reorder. After the pins, chats are sorted by latest activity, and each row shows a time label: today's time, Yesterday, a weekday, or a date. Once you scroll down, a button in the corner takes you back to the top.
• Everything bb's own row does. Clicking opens the thread. ⌘-click (Ctrl-click) opens it in a split, and dragging a row into the main area splits too. The jump shortcuts (⌘1…9, next and previous) and the mobile drawer work. The right-click menu can rename, pin, mark read or unread, copy a link, archive, and delete. Double-click a row to rename it in place.

Settings

• Projects: folders, headings in the list (they can stay pinned under the tabs while you scroll), or off.
• Folder layout: tabs above the list, or a narrow rail on the left with an icon and a name per folder. The rail scrolls on its own, and its + lines up with the search bar.
• Row size: comfortable (avatar plus a status line) or compact (one line).
• Section folders and the Archive folder: on or off, in step with the folder editor.
• Fold sub-agents into their parent: on or off.
• Hide quiet chats after a number of days. They stay one click away, and search and Attention still show them.
• Language: English or Russian. The default follows the system language.

Requirements

bb 0.44 or later. No accounts, keys, or external services: everything stays in bb. To switch back to bb's own list, pick it under Settings → Appearance → Sidebar.