Contextual Sidebars: Insights and Connections
🗂 📑 ✅ Living Spec makes it incredibly easy to connect related ideas. The contextual sidebars in Living Spec make it easy to discover more about the currently selected page page, dynamic page, file, task, and/or document and define efficient workflows.
File Context
Quickly find that cross-referenced resource
Adding files to your Living Spec page provides better context. You can import files by copying and pasting, dragging and dropping, clicking the New button, or using email parsing. To understand your files better, click on the file's feature chip. This shows the description, options like generating transcriptions for audio or video files, and access to the File Context section.
The File Context section is a map-like illustration of pages connected to the file. Apart from the looks, this feature also allows for easy navigation between related pages, promoting a better understanding of how your file connects to your page's content and finding other linkages.
Task Context
View task details within the spec context
Selecting a task shows details next to the current page, making it easy to update while retaining key spec details.
Navigate to another page and leave the task open. This makes it easy to update other portions of your spec with a reference to the selected task.
Beyond the typical task details (assignee, status, comments, etc.), visualize the other spec sections connected to the task.
Page Context
Insights about the current page and its connections
View details about the current page. Get an email address to support email parsing.
Find a quick index of all the pages, tasks, and files connected to the current page and connected pages.
Quickly update related tasks and visualize the connections between the current page and the overall spec document.
The Big Picture
Relationships, aggregated status, and much more
Observe and filter or search all tasks, pages, and files within a spec document.
Visualize the relationships within the spec, gaining further insights into your product.
Quickly share the document with your team, or enable a public view.
Bonus tip: Living Spec makes it incredibly easy to focus on a narrow set of work, view an entire product spec, or any layer in between. The information architecture and approach are controlled by you, allowing you to adapt to the needs and scale of your team. Or set up a Dynamic Page against any search result and persist your own result set for reuse.
Living Spec makes it easy to traverse your spec and find essential details while focusing on what matters most to you currently!
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