Creative group (sidebar)

What it is

The Creative group is a collapsible row in the Omniscio projects sidebar that nests the tools that help you make, capture, or produce content. 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 the tools you reach for when you are making something take up one line instead of four.

What's inside

• Writer — the long-form writing studio.
• Flowcharts — diagram and flowchart authoring.
• Image Studio — image generation and editing.
• Decks — slide-deck creation.

Where to find it

The Creative 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 four tools inside it.

How it behaves

How to use it

• 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

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

Related

The Communication 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. Writing itself, one level in from this row, is on the Writer page, and slide-deck creation is on the Decks page.