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title: Creative group (sidebar)
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# 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](../../src/shared/integration-registry.ts); its children carry `parentGroupId: 'creative'`. Render nesting is driven by `SIDEBAR_PARENT_GROUPS` + `consolidateChildrenUnderParent` in [ProjectsSidebar.tsx](../../src/renderer/src/features/dashboard/ProjectsSidebar.tsx) — render-only, no DB re-parent. Collapse state: `creativeCollapsed` (default `true`). See the [sidebar category grouping contract](../../.claude/memory/contracts/sidebar-category-grouping-contract.md).

## 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](projects-sidebar.md). Writing itself, one level in from this row, is on the [Writer](ai-writer.md) page, and slide-deck creation is on the [Decks](decks.md) page.