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Follow Topics and storylines

Find trending Topics, read their source-linked storylines, and keep the list focused.

Written by Topi Järvinen

Topics connect related movement across meetings and Workspaces. Instead of showing a flat list of mentions, a Topic groups the current storylines, their status, and the source-linked events that moved each storyline forward.

Find trending Topics

From Home, select Topics → under Browse when that shortcut is available. Some accounts also show a Topics entry in the navigation; open Trending topics there.

The Trending topics view summarizes the last 30 days. Use its controls to:

  • Search by Topic name.

  • Filter to one Workspace.

  • Sort by Needs attention, meeting volume, or recent movement.

  • Switch between Rows and Cards.

  • Show all Topics or narrow by type, such as Project, Goal, or Product.

  • Add a Topic to your favourites.

The Moved this week band highlights up to four Topics whose storylines advanced during the last seven days. It shows the movement date, Topic, lead thread, and open-work signals.

In Rows, the default sort groups Needs attention above Other topics. Each row can show the Topic's classification, meeting count and change, lead thread, open work, last movement date, and favourite control. When the list is longer, select Show all topics to expand it.

Trending Topics with search, filters, sorting, the Moved this week band, and grouped topic rows

Read a Topic

Select a Topic to open its detail view. The page shows one or more storylines, each with:

  • A storyline title and current status

  • A maintained summary of what has happened

  • A dated sequence of supporting events

  • View links to the source observations or meetings

Read the summary to understand the direction of travel, then open the source links before acting on an important decision, risk, or commitment.

The Topic header also provides the editable title, classification, favourite control, Topic actions, and a Run with [preferred client] handoff, such as Run with Claude. Select the classification when the AI has put a Topic in the wrong type. Meeting-type Topics keep their fixed classification.

A Topic detail page with maintained storylines, lifecycle statuses, correction flags, and dated source-linked events

Check the source meetings

Each dated storyline event can include a View link to its supporting observation or meeting. At the bottom of the Topic, expand Meetings (N) to see the recorded meetings that carry the Topic, newest first.

The list is limited to meetings you are allowed to open. If a consequential claim is not supported by the visible source links, verify it with the meeting owner before acting.

Use storyline status

Storylines can move through these statuses:

  • Emerging — a pattern is forming but may not yet be established.

  • Active — the storyline is currently moving or has open consequences.

  • Resolved — the storyline no longer needs active attention.

Use the status control beside a storyline when the current state no longer reflects reality. Changing a status helps people interpret the Topic; it does not edit the source observations behind it.

Correct a storyline

Select the flag beside a storyline when its maintained summary gets something wrong. In What does this get wrong?, describe the specific error, then select Save.

The correction note is visible to everyone who can see the Topic. It remains attached until a later Topic update rewrites the storyline to satisfy the correction. A correction steers the maintained storyline; it does not change the underlying meeting or observation.

The What does this get wrong dialog for correcting an AI-maintained Topic storyline

Favourite, merge, or hide a Topic

Use Add to favourites to mark a Topic for your own account.

Select the Topic's current classification when it belongs under another type. If another Topic already uses the same name in the destination classification, In Parallel offers a merge instead of creating a collision.

Open Topic actions to:

  • Merge into… when two Topics represent the same subject.

  • Hide topic… when the Topic should leave the active list and stop influencing what In Parallel treats as relevant.

Merge candidates can have a different classification. Review the destination carefully: the Topic you merge into survives and keeps its classification, while the source Topic is consolidated into it. Hiding is not the same as deleting the source meetings or observations.

Run a Topic with AI

Select Run with [preferred client]—shown as Run with Claude when Claude is selected—when you want to continue from the Topic's maintained storyline and supporting context in an AI workflow.

Ask the receiving tool to preserve source links when it produces a decision brief, risk review, or stakeholder update. A generated answer can still compress or misread the evidence.

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