Communication group (sidebar)

What it is

The Communication group is a collapsible row in the Omniscio projects sidebar that nests the tools that send, receive, or manage messages and meetings. It ships collapsed by default — click its chevron to expand.

Its job is to keep the sidebar short. Every tool inside it is a full feature in its own right, with its own panel; the group is only a nesting row that holds them together, so that the tools you reach for when you are dealing with people take up one line instead of nine.

What's inside

• Team Chat — team messaging.
• Email Cleanup — triage and tidy your inbox.
• Email Summarizer — summarize long email threads.
• Drip — scheduled outbound message sequences.
• Meetings — meeting notes and transcripts.
• Screenshots — snip and annotate screenshots.
• Screen Recording — screen recordings with captions.
• Voice History — your dictation history.
• Voiceprint Studio — voice profile management.

Where to find it

The Communication row sits in the left projects sidebar, in the same column as your projects and your other category groups — it is a sidebar row, not a panel of its own, so nothing has to be open for it to be there. Because it ships collapsed, what you see at first is a single line with a chevron, not the nine tools inside it.

How it behaves

• Click the chevron on the left of the row to expand/collapse. The choice persists across launches.
• Click the group row itself (not the chevron) to open a small roll-up panel that lists the members; each one is a shortcut to open it directly.
• To move a member out of the group for solo sidebar use, drag it to a new position or right-click and choose Remove from Category. Right-click the solo item and choose Return to [group name] to put it back.

The nesting is a display arrangement, not a folder: nothing is copied or moved when a tool lives under the group, and pulling a tool out with Remove from Category changes where it is drawn in the sidebar and nothing about the tool itself.

For agents

communication entry in integration-registry.ts; its children carry parentGroupId: 'communication'. Render nesting is driven by SIDEBAR_PARENT_GROUPS + consolidateChildrenUnderParent in ProjectsSidebar.tsx — render-only, no DB re-parent. Collapse state: communicationCollapsed (default true). See the sidebar category grouping contract.

Related

The Creative group is the other built-in category row in the same sidebar, and it works the same way. If what you are looking for is how the sidebar as a whole is arranged — status sections, projects, and these groups together — start from the projects sidebar. Team messaging itself, one level in from this row, is on the Team Chat page.