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Dashboard Guide

Your command center for managing ideas

Overview

The IdeaLift dashboard is your central hub for managing product feedback. From here you can connect integrations, review captured ideas, track analytics, and configure your workspace.

Manage ideas
Connect tools
View analytics
Configure

Main Dashboard

Quick Stats

At the top of your dashboard, you'll see four key metrics:

Ideas This Month

Count of ideas captured this billing period vs. your plan limit

Inbox

Ideas awaiting your review (click to open inbox)

Shipped

Total implemented ideas, plus this month's count

Status

"Active" when integrations are connected, otherwise "Setup Required"

Onboarding Checklist

New users see a checklist guiding them through the essential setup steps:

  1. 1.Connect a source (Discord, Slack, or Teams)
  2. 2.Connect a destination (GitHub, Linear, or Jira)
  3. 3.Capture your first idea
  4. 4.Push an idea to your backlog

The checklist disappears once you've completed all steps.

Smart Tips

Contextual tips appear based on your usage patterns, helping you discover features and best practices. Tips can be dismissed once you've seen them.

Stale Ideas Alert

If you have ideas waiting 30+ days without action, a prominent alert appears. Click it to review stale ideas and keep your backlog healthy.

Pro tip: Regularly review stale ideas to either ship, reject, or update them. A clean backlog helps you stay focused.

Integrations

Chat & Communication

Connect your team communication tools to capture ideas from conversations:

  • Discord — Capture from messages and reactions
  • Slack — Capture from channels with emoji reactions
  • Microsoft Teams — Capture from team channels

Project Management

Connect your issue tracker to push approved ideas as tickets:

  • GitHub — Create issues in any repository
  • Linear — Create issues in any team
  • Jira — Create issues in any project

CRM & Support

Sync customer data and capture feedback from support tickets:

  • HubSpot — Sync contacts and company data
  • Zendesk — Capture feedback from support tickets

Developer Tools

Capture ideas directly from your development workflow:

Ideas Management

The sidebar's Ideas section helps you manage your feedback pipeline:

Inbox

Pending ideas awaiting your review and action

Shipped

Ideas that have been implemented and closed

Rejected

Ideas you've decided not to pursue

Stale

Ideas waiting 30+ days without action

Intelligence

Gain deeper understanding of your feedback with AI-powered analytics and insights:

Signals

AI-powered signal scoring for prioritization

Patterns

AI-grouped clusters of similar feedback

Trends

Trending topics and emerging themes

Customers

Feedback organized by customer or company

Analytics

Metrics on idea volume, sources, and outcomes

Decision Map

Cross-team view of product decisions grouped by product or owner

Reports

Generate and export periodic feedback reports

Catch-Up

AI-generated briefings on what you missed

Content

Share progress and decisions with your team and customers:

Roadmap

Public roadmap for sharing with users

Changelog

Announce shipped features to customers

Timeline

Chronological view of all captured ideas

Knowledge Base

Curated knowledge base of product decisions

Decay

Monitor decision decay and aging ideas

Views

Purpose-built views for each stage of your product decision workflow:

Decide

Focused view for making decisions on pending ideas

Track

Monitor approved ideas through implementation

Measure

Evaluate outcomes of shipped features

Configure

Set up integrations, manage your team, and configure workspace settings:

Integrations

Connect chat platforms, issue trackers, and CRMs

Import

Bulk import ideas from CSV, spreadsheets, or other tools

Extension

Browser extension for capturing ideas from any webpage

Settings

Workspace settings, AI config, tags, products, and more

Team

Manage team members, invitations, and roles

Billing

View your plan, manage subscriptions, access invoices

Audit Logs

Review audit trail of actions in your workspace

Support

Get help, submit tickets, and access documentation

Navigation Tips

Search

Use the search feature at the top of the sidebar to quickly find ideas by title, content, or submitter. Search works across all idea states.

Dark Mode

Toggle between light and dark themes using the button at the bottom of the sidebar. Your preference is saved automatically.

Mobile View

On mobile devices, the sidebar collapses into a hamburger menu. Tap the menu icon to access navigation, and tap anywhere outside to close it.

Need Help?

Having trouble with the dashboard?