Context: Surfaced while drafting the alpha outreach email (#24). The Spaces overview is going to be one of the first things a tester sees after first-time save flow — and right now it leads with auto-created connector spaces (one per connector instance) that render as a bare list of links with no metadata.
The problems:
- Ranking — connector-backed spaces (which exist because §2.0a auto-creates a backing space per connector instance) often have the largest member counts and most recent activity, so any sort that defaults to recency or member_count surfaces them first. They're not the spaces a tester cares about; their Projects and topical Spaces are.
- Metadata — the connector-space detail view renders a list of titles + URLs without showing the things that distinguish spaces: rolling activity (recent saves, last-touched date), brief summary, dominant content types, source-domain mix, the connector instance metadata.
- First-impression effect — a tester who lands on a connector space first reads Knowmarks as "a bookmark list with extra steps" rather than "the AI-readable knowledge layer."
Proposed direction (sketch — agent picks impl):
- Default sort on
/spaces should de-prioritize connector-backed spaces (push them below Project + Topical + Curated, or hide them behind an "Imports" filter chip).
- Connector-space detail view should grow a header that mirrors what other spaces show: brief, recent activity, content-type mix, freshness signal. The connector linkage should be visible ("Synced from GitHub stars · last sync 4h ago · 1,247 items") but not be the whole UI.
- Auto-created connector spaces should default to a less prominent
lifetime_intent or a UI-only collapsed state until the user pins them.
Acceptance:
- A new tester landing on
/spaces first sees the spaces relevant to their thinking (Projects, then topical Spaces), not the bulk-imported connector spaces.
- Opening a connector space shows enough metadata to understand what it is and how it's being kept fresh.
- Sort + filter affordances let a power user surface connector spaces explicitly when they want to.
Related: #24 (alpha master list).
Context: Surfaced while drafting the alpha outreach email (#24). The Spaces overview is going to be one of the first things a tester sees after first-time save flow — and right now it leads with auto-created connector spaces (one per connector instance) that render as a bare list of links with no metadata.
The problems:
Proposed direction (sketch — agent picks impl):
/spacesshould de-prioritize connector-backed spaces (push them below Project + Topical + Curated, or hide them behind an "Imports" filter chip).lifetime_intentor a UI-only collapsed state until the user pins them.Acceptance:
/spacesfirst sees the spaces relevant to their thinking (Projects, then topical Spaces), not the bulk-imported connector spaces.Related: #24 (alpha master list).