Follow-ups

Flag any tab in Silo — an editor, a terminal, a dock panel — to come back to later, with a reason attached.

You know the feeling: fifteen tabs open across four workspaces, and you can't remember which one you were waiting on a review for, which one is blocked, and which one you just meant to read. Pinning doesn't help — a pinned tab looks exactly like every other pinned tab.

A follow-up is a color and a name. "Blocked." "Needs review." "In progress." The tab picks up a soft tint in that color, so you spot it in a glance; the name, the note, and everything you flagged in every other workspace live in one list in the Navigator.

What you get

• A flag on every tab — one button on the editor breadcrumb and on every dock panel's toolbar, terminal included. Click it to flag with your default label; click the caret beside it to pick a different one. The button stays lit while the tab is flagged.
• Tint you can actually see — the flagged tab washes in your label's color and the title takes it too, so eight flagged tabs no longer look identical.
• One list, every workspace — the Follow-ups view in the Navigator shows everything you've flagged across every open workspace. Group it by label or by workspace, click a row to jump straight to that tab, right-click to relabel, note, or clear it without leaving the list.
• Notes — a line of free text per follow-up. "Waiting on Ana's reply." It shows up on the row and in the tab's menu, so the reason survives longer than your memory of it does.
• A count where you're already looking — each workspace gets a single line in the Workspaces panel ("3 follow-ups"), opening with a dot per label in use.
• Right-click anywhere — Mark, Clear, and Follow-up note live on every editor, terminal, and dock panel tab's context menu, so you never have to hunt for the button.
• Keyboard-driven if you want it — bind any of the four commands and they act on whatever tab you're looking at.
• It remembers — follow-ups survive a restart. Close the tab and the flag goes with it; nothing to clean up.

The five labels

Rename and reorder them in Settings → Extensions → Follow-ups, and pick which one the flag button applies. There are exactly five, one per color — that's what keeps the tint tracking your theme instead of a hardcoded shade that fights it.

Commands

Each acts on the tab whose button or menu you used — or, from a keyboard shortcut, the tab you're looking at. Assign shortcuts in Settings → Keyboard Shortcuts (search "Follow-ups").

Requirements

Silo 0.65 or newer.

Permissions

None. Follow-ups are stored locally in the extension's own storage and nothing leaves your machine.

Good to know

• The flag button appears on a surface only while that surface's breadcrumbs are turned on. The tab right-click menu always works either way.
• Upgrading from 0.2.x keeps your editor and terminal follow-ups but drops the ones on dock panels — 0.2.x couldn't identify a panel reliably across restarts, so those were disappearing on their own anyway. 0.3.0 fixes that for good.

Installing

From a GitHub Release

1. Go to Releases.
2. Right-click the .tgz asset → Copy link address.
3. In Silo: Settings → Extensions, paste the URL and click Install.

From source

git clone https://github.com/silo-code/silo-extensions
cd silo-extensions/follow-ups
npm install
npm run build

Then in Silo: Settings → Extensions → Install from folder, point at this directory.

Building

npm install
npm run build        # one-shot
npm run build:watch  # watch mode
npm run typecheck
npm test             # unit tests

src/lib/ is pure and imports the SDK for types only, so the unit tests never load the SDK runtime. src/ui/ holds the React components. src/index.tsx is wiring: registrations, binders, and panel sections.