Conversations
Everything Groupthink took in, in one feed, with each source and its settings in the sidebar.
On this page
Conversations is the feed of everything that reached Groupthink: what you dictated, typed or pasted, the text conversations you captured or imported, the email you forwarded, and the files Groupthink read. Each of those sources is listed under Conversations in the left sidebar. Click one and you see the same feed narrowed to that source, with its settings in a pane at the top, so turning a source on or fixing it happens next to what it brought in.
This page used to be called Captures. The address is the same, so old links and bookmarks still land here.
Where to find it
In the left sidebar, Conversations sits just below Recaps (or Past Meetings), in the Every day group when your sidebar shows group headings. On the Mac, the menu bar icon has a Conversations… item that goes straight there. The page works the same in the desktop app and on the web at app.groupthink.com/capture/history.
The sources are listed under it, in this order:
| Source | What its feed shows | More |
|---|---|---|
| Voice | What you said with Voice Dictation. | Voice |
| Typed & pasted | What you typed in the Capture Box or pasted as notes. | Typed & pasted |
| Messages | Text conversations you captured or imported. | Capture a Text Conversation, Import Your Messages History on a Mac |
| Email that reached Groupthink, such as notes you forwarded. | ||
| Slack | Slack threads Groupthink took in. | Slack |
| Files | Files and documents Groupthink read, such as photos and PDFs you uploaded. | Files |
| Calendar | Nothing here. Your calendar feeds meetings, and meetings live with their notes and recaps. | Connect your calendar |
If you collapse the sidebar to its icon rail, the sources are hidden and the Conversations icon opens the full feed.
The full feed
Click Conversations itself to see everything. A row of chips sits above the list: Yours, Spoken, Typed, Texts, Email, Files and All. All is the one you land on: everything that reached Groupthink, newest first. Yours narrows it to what you captured yourself.
Each row shows the text with a copy button, when it came in, and who it was about. A row Groupthink could not file to anyone says Not routed to a contact and has an Attach to contact button so you can file it yourself. A Slack thread you saved without a person has the same button.
A text conversation from a number that is on none of your contacts is titled with the number: its title starts Texts with +14155550123. Its row asks who that is instead:
- On the desktop app for Mac, when Contacts on that Mac has a name for the number, the row reads Contacts on this Mac says this is Maya Okonjo. with a button: It's Maya Okonjo when one of your contacts has that name, Add Maya Okonjo as a contact when none does, and Pick which Maya Okonjo when more than one does. Someone else opens the search box instead.
- When Groupthink can suggest a name, the row reads This number is probably Sam Lee or This number might be Sam Lee, and says where the name came from. Click It's Sam Lee if Sam is already a contact, or Add Sam Lee as a contact if not. Not Sam turns the suggestion down, and Someone else opens the search box.
- Otherwise the button reads Add a name. It opens a search box: pick one of your contacts, or type a new name and choose Create new contact: with that name.
Nothing is saved until you click. When you do, the title starts Texts with Sam Lee instead, the row shows Sam's name with a link to his page, and every other conversation from that number on the page changes with it. Groupthink saves the number on Sam, so later texts from it are filed under him. This is the same question Today asks under Who is this?, and answering it in either place answers it in both.
The confirmation says the number is saved on Sam and his texts file to him from now on, with an Undo button. If you picked the wrong person, click Undo. The number comes off Sam, the message changes to Undone. This number is back under Who is this?, and the row asks who the number is again.
A conversation from an Apple ID email address works the same way: the address is saved on that person as an email, the other conversations from it are filed under them too, and later conversations from it file themselves. If another of your contacts already has the address, it stays on them and only the conversation you named is filed. When the address was saved, the confirmation has the same Undo button. Click it and the address comes off that person, the conversations it filed are back under nobody, and the message changes to Undone. This address is back under Who is this? The Voice page describes a row in full.
If a text conversation is filed under the wrong person, click Move to someone else on its row and pick who it is really about. When the number was saved on the person the conversation was on, the number moves too, so the next texts from it are filed under the person you picked. The row then reads We'll match this number to them next time. with an Undo button. Clicking Undo after a move leaves the conversation with the person you picked, and the message says the number will no longer be matched to them. Other conversations already filed under the first person stay there. The number stays on the first person when it came from your Contacts, or when you put it on them yourself from another conversation, their page or Who is this?. In that case, undo that naming or change the number on their page.
Opening one note from a link
Some links elsewhere in Groupthink point at one note: the from a note or from a text conversation label beside a fact on a person's page, and the source line on a Suggested action item that came from a capture. Following one opens this feed with that note's row scrolled into view, outlined and showing its whole text. When the note is further back, the feed loads older pages to reach it.
One source's feed
Click a source under Conversations and the page is titled with that source's name, for example Messages. The feed shows only what came from that source, so the chips are not shown; the sidebar is where you pick a source.
If nothing has come from that source yet, the page reads Nothing from followed by the source's name, for example Nothing from Messages yet.
Calendar is the exception. It has no feed of its own, because the meetings your calendar brings in are kept with their notes and recaps. The page says so and gives you an Open your meetings link.
Source settings
At the top of a source's page is a Messages settings pane (named for whichever source you are on), with a Source settings button that opens and closes it. It holds that source's settings and nothing else: the switch to turn it on, whether it is working, and how it works. For example, the Messages pane holds the Messages import and Phone numbers from your Mac's Contacts, which is what lets a text file itself under the right person.
The pane opens on its own when that source has nothing in its feed yet, since setting it up is the next thing to do. Once there is something to show, it starts closed.
If a source needs your attention, a dot appears on the Source settings button, so you can see it with the pane closed. Today only Messages raises it, in the Mac app: when the app no longer has Full Disk Access, when it can't read Messages on this Mac, when the last sync failed, or when the last import was 3 or more days ago.
On the full Conversations feed the same pane is called How things get in and holds every source's settings at once, and the dot covers all of them.
The same settings still live under Settings > Capture. Change a source in either place and it is changed in both.
Related
- Voice: hold fn on a Mac and speak; everything you say is saved here.
- Typed & pasted: the capture box. Type one sentence about someone and Groupthink files it.
- Capture a Text Conversation: paste a text thread and file it onto the right person.
- Relationship Intelligence: where what you capture shows up on each person's page.