For long running projects with structured outputs mixed with conversational analysis. Essentially, create a persistent structured workspace (left pane) and a parallel conversational thread (right pane). This would help protect from burying important output in conversational text.
Hey @ITguy! This makes sense. Keeping the “final/structured” work in one pane and the discussion in another could make long projects much easier to follow.
Before I pass this along internally, could you share a little more?
- What are you ultimately trying to accomplish, in your own words?
- What do you do today instead, and what about that isn’t working for you?
- If we solved this perfectly, what would be different for you or your team?
- Sunny
Hi Sunny,
- What are you ultimately trying to accomplish, in your own words?
What we would like to see a way to ask a ‘side-bar’ type question (such as definitions or “show me an example of…”) and receive clarifying answers before returning to the primary conversation.
- What do you do today instead, and what about that isn’t working for you ?
It isn’t that it’s not working, it is just inefficient for real work loads. Some of our AI conversations take weeks and thousands of lines long but much of that is clarification and definitions and such. To maintain the focus of the conversation, there is much scrolling and requesting re-output of previous data .
- If we solved this perfectly, what would be different for you or your te am?
What we would like to see perhaps (my high-level perspective) is maybe a button that could open a side panel with its own input field where simple questions can be posed related to the bigger conversation (such as: Please define X,Y,Z in this context). I can’t really ask the question in a different window because it will be in a different context and possibly have different meanings .
In short, A split-pane style layout may act as such:
One side stays “pinned” to the current working data/conversation
Image review
Spreadsheet fields
Formulas
Reference values
While the other side handles:
Discussion
Clarifications
Side questions/thoughts
Strategy comments
I appreciate you taking the time to review and consider my idea.
-Very respectfully,
Steve
Hey @ITguy, really appreciate you laying that out. I can see what you mean: side questions aren’t broken exactly, but they can get inefficient when the main conversation is long and important.
The split-pane idea makes sense too, especially for keeping working material like images, spreadsheet fields, formulas, or reference values visible while the discussion happens alongside it.
Feedback like this helps us understand where the experience could be smoother. I can’t share a timeline right now, but I’ll send this through internally.
- Sunny