Hats - Workspaces simplified

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Workspaces for your bb sidebar: switch between groups of projects, like Work and Personal, with one click. Each hat is a workspace that holds a set of projects, and a project can sit in several hats. A footer button switches to the next hat: projects that other hats claim are hidden, and projects in no hat always show. Your sidebar order, threads, and collapsed groups stay exactly as you left them. Edit hats and pick their icons on the settings page, or use the bb hats CLI; no account or external service.

Overview

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Hats adds workspaces to the bb sidebar. A hat is a group of projects, like Work or Personal. Click the button in the sidebar footer to switch to the next hat, and the projects that belong to your other hats are hidden.

Hats preserves normal project ordering by hiding and showing projects in the bb thread list, preserving ordering.

Setting up hats

On the settings page you can add, rename, reorder and delete hats, pick an icon for each, and choose which projects are included in each one. A project can be in more than one hat. A project that is in no hat is always visible, so new projects show up until you file them somewhere.

A new install starts with two empty hats, Work and Personal. Nothing is hidden until you put projects in them.

CLI

The bb hats command does everything the settings page does, so you can switch hats from a terminal and agents can switch them too.

Requirements

None. Hats keeps its data in bb on your machine. It needs no account or API key.

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