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Backlog

Park an idea without losing it; harvest the backlog when the next planning window opens. Ideas not promoted to the roadmap yet - each with why it is interesting, why not now, and the date it was parked. Lives at .claude/brain/backlog.md.

See it in motion

Where to find it

  • Desktop: retired from the desktop app. No sidebar row or palette entry opens it.
  • Hosted: repoops.ai/team/reference, from Memory in the sidebar, then Reference index under All tools, in the Lessons, wiki and patterns group, which lists it.
  • On disk: .claude/brain/backlog.md

What it does for you

A graveyard with vital signs.Each parked idea names why it's parked and what would unblock it - a vendor that has to release something, a persona that has to grow, a metric that has to move. Re-reading is fast; resurrecting is intentional.
Keeps the roadmap honest.Without a backlog, every drive-by idea lands on the roadmap and clogs it. With one, “park it” is a real verb - the idea isn't lost, it's pending its trigger.
Ages give you a culling signal.The file names its own rule: a quarterly sweep archives anything over 12 months old that nobody has re-championed. Old ideas in a backlog rot faster than people think.

Configure

Nothing - hand-edit the markdown. Add the date when parking; name the trigger explicitly. No trigger, no parking.

Use it well

Open Backlog at the start of every planning window - anything whose trigger fired since the last window gets promoted to the roadmap. Run the quarterly sweep yourself; nothing here runs it for you. It archives anything over 12 months old that nobody re-champions, which keeps the record of what you considered and turned down. The backlog earns its existence by getting smaller, not larger.

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