brainstorm-hub

Brainstorm Hub 🧠

A hub for brainstorming inside the GitHub Copilot app.

Click "Use this template" to add this repo template to your own GitHub account.

Open a session here and the assistant becomes a brainstorm interviewer: it asks short,
probing questions to help you explore and clarify your own ideas. When you're done,
it writes up a clean summary of your idea and saves it as a markdown document
that you can browse in a canvas in the GitHub Copilot app (or in the repo itself).

This was built around the open Brainstory prompts!

How it works

1. Start talking. Begin a session and just start brainstorming, or open the
   Brainstorm Hub canvas and press New idea. The assistant leads the
   conversation, asking one concise question at a time. Voice mode is encouraged!
2. Finish & save. When you've talked it through, press Finish & save idea.
   The assistant turns the conversation into a Result Document written from your
   perspective and saves it to ideas/.
3. Browse your ideas. The canvas shows a dashboard of every saved idea. Click one
   to read it.
4. Riff on an idea. With an idea open, press Riff on this idea to start a new
   brainstorm that builds on it — extend it, react to specific points, or walk through
   it point by point.
5. Commit or step out. Press Commit ideas to ask the assistant to commit saved
   idea markdown files, or Meta mode when you want to ask questions or make changes
   that are not part of a brainstorm.

The canvas

The extension lives in .github/extensions/brainstorm-hub/:

Saving ideas

Everything you save goes into ideas/. If you use this repo as a template, you
can add a .gitignore to the folder to keep your ideas local to your machine, but
then they cannot be committed.

Personally: I used this repo as a template, and made a private repo based on this
template, so that I can commit my ideas, but they stay private to me.