Inbox Sidebar

Keep your thread inbox ordered and bring related work together. Nest child threads beneath their parents and scan Git, PR, and provider details on each card. Snooze, settle, or bulk-archive threads with keyboard and touch controls. Filter by project and let an optional inactivity shelf collect quiet work.

Overview

View source

Keep your place

Arrange pinned and inbox threads with drag and drop or Alt+Up / Alt+Down. Your order persists, so status changes do not shuffle the list.

Follow parent and child threads

Expand children beneath their parent and see descendant activity reflected on the parent card. Thread-header controls take you between related threads. Opening or searching for a child expands its parent automatically.

Triage without losing work

Snooze a thread for 30 minutes, 2 hours, 1 day, or 1 week.
Settle quiet threads into a collapsed shelf without archiving them.
Press Ctrl+Alt+S to settle the open thread, including while typing in the chat composer. On Mac, use Control+Option+S.
On touch screens, swipe a card left to settle or right to choose a snooze time.
Select several threads for bulk snooze, settle, or archive actions.

Active work and pending attention, including work in descendants, prevent parking. An optional Inactive shelf collects quiet, unpinned threads after a delay you choose; new activity brings them back.

Read the context on each card

See the project, branch, working-tree state, pull-request number and state, and provider mark alongside the thread status. Git indicators distinguish clean, untracked, uncommitted, and unmerged work. Pull-request indicators distinguish draft, open, merged, and closed states.

Filter by project, search with BB's sidebar search, and rename threads inline.

Requirements

Requires BB 0.37.0 or later. Select Inbox Sidebar in Settings → Appearance → Sidebar after installation. No separate service or account is required.

An evolution of T3 Sidebar by Sawyer Hood, released under the MIT license.

More from WYEZ

Cursor SidebarReplace BB's thread list with a Cursor-style sidebar. Group chats by project, status, environment or date. Nest child chats, pin them, file them into folders, and keep view settings in the plugin's own database so uninstalling it leaves your threads alone.43 FileTreeBrowse and preview workspace files beside your BB thread. Search paths, see Git changes, and open code, Markdown, PDFs and Office documents. Read-only; includes a Linux x64 build. macOS requires a native build; Windows is unsupported.18 pstackPuts 47 pstack engineering skills in every bb thread, with one setup step to choose the models they delegate to. Run /setup-pstack once and it reads this host's model list, then asks which model each pstack role should use. After that, /poteto-mode loads one of 23 playbooks and runs the other skills its steps need: reviews that put a second model on the change, tests, blast-radius checks, and prose cleanup. Every skill has its own switch, and none reach the model prompt until you invoke them. Needs bb 0.43 or newer, the bb CLI for skills that fan out to workers, and MCP servers or a webhook endpoint for the few skills that ask for them.New UI TweaksAdds configurable fonts, new-thread prompt placement, Open With filtering, and sidebar footer controls to BB.20

More in Thread Management 51

Find, identify, organize, or archive threads.

View all

BB SidebarA sidebar inspired by T3 Code that adds manual and automatic thread sorting, collapsible shelves, and bulk actions to bb.

Yusuf Akbulut552

T3 SidebarReplaces the BB thread list with a stable inbox, snooze controls, and child thread links.

Sawyer Hood366

Thread NamerNames threads with an agent when their first turn ends, so the sidebar reads as what you were doing, and re-generates a name on demand from the thread header or the CLI.

Marius Nouchet190