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Ideas

An idea is an internal document where your team can brainstorm, edit, and comment in real time.

Ideas live in the Ideation Room, which is part of Storyblok Labs. From Labs > Ideation Room, you can access existing ideas and create new ones.

Storyblok interface shows the Ideas section with a draft titled "New Exciting Content for My Project" marked as a favorite.

The ideas list

Edit

Section titled “Edit”

To create a new idea, click + New Idea. A blank idea will open in the Ideation Room.

A new idea in the Ideation Room

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The main toolbar includes all formatting options and AI tools.

The forward slash key (/) reveals a menu with all available commands. To see quick commands, type a forward slash (/).

To see formatting options and AI tools, select some text.

A blank document with a dropdown menu showing text formatting commands, like headings, paragraph, and a prompt AI tool suggestion.

The command menu

Click the Overview icon to open the side menu. Enter the name of the idea and a short description, set the status, assign an idea to a user, link stories, and add tags.

The sidebar options include fields for idea name, description, status, assignment, and tags.

Overview in the Ideation Room

By default, ideas are private. To share an idea with colleagues or link an idea to a story, click Share and change the visibility to Public.

Connect

Section titled “Connect”

Want to connect ideas for your brainstorm? In the Links pane you can collect related stories and external links. When you connect a story to an idea, a backlink will appear in the Idea pane of the linked story, allowing writers to copy-paste text from the original idea into the linked story.

Connect Ideas with stories

To create a new idea from a story, click New Idea in the Idea pane, which will send you to the ideas list. Select an idea or create a new one, then open the Links pane in the idea and connect it to the original story.

Comments

Section titled “Comments”

To add a new comment, select any text and click the new comment icon.

Selected text in the Ideation Room

The commented text will appear with a yellow highlight. Reveal the Comments pane by clicking any comment or the comments icon.

Hover over a comment in the comments pane to mark a comment as read, unread, resolved, or open. Resolved comments drop to the bottom of the comments pane.