Review Queue

Review is the one view that tells you what to look at. Instead of scrolling your whole list, you get a short queue of ideas that changed state on their own — a possible duplicate appeared, NeuralRepo connected two of your ideas, or something you captured has sat untouched for weeks — and one or two buttons that clear each item.

Open it from Review in the sidebar. The nav item carries a count while anything is waiting.

What Lands in the Queue

Possible duplicates

Pairs that scored above your dedup threshold, most similar first, each showing the similarity percentage. Pro only — the section is empty on the free plan even though detections are still being recorded.

New connections

Relations created in the last 7 days, whether NeuralRepo inferred them from similarity or you made them yourself. Auto-detected ones are labelled as such and show their score.

Gone quiet

Ideas still sitting in captured past your staleness threshold — 30 days by default, configurable between 7 and 180 — with how many days they have been untouched.

The Actions

Each card offers only the moves that make sense for it.

Section	Action	What it does
Possible duplicates	Merge	Folds the pair together and marks the detection merged. See Duplicate Detection for exactly which idea survives
Possible duplicates	Not a duplicate	Marks the detection dismissed; the pair never comes back
New connections	Open	Opens the source idea so you can judge the link in context
New connections	Seen it	Hides the card for this session only — nothing is written, and it reappears until the connection ages out of the 7-day window
Gone quiet	Keep	”Still relevant” — bumps the idea’s updated_at, restarting the staleness clock without changing anything else
Gone quiet	Develop	Moves the idea to exploring, which takes it out of the stale queue for good
Gone quiet	Archive	Soft-deletes the idea

Note

Seen it is the only action that isn’t persisted. Everything else writes through the same endpoints as the rest of the app, so a merge or a status change made here shows up everywhere immediately.

When the Queue Is Empty

You get a “Queue clear” panel rather than an empty list. That is the normal state — the queue only fills as ideas age or as background processing finds something, so seeing it empty every day means your capture habit and your triage habit are in balance.

Free vs Pro

Section	Free	Pro
Possible duplicates	Hidden	Shown
New connections	Shown	Shown
Gone quiet	Shown	Shown

Free accounts get a genuinely useful queue — staleness and new connections are the two sections that need no AI spend. Duplicates are the Pro addition, and because detections are recorded for every account, the backlog is waiting in full if you upgrade later.

Tuning the Staleness Threshold

The Gone quiet section and the weekly digest’s stale section share one setting, stale_threshold_days (7–180, default 30).

Web

Settings ▸ Notifications — set the number of days an idea can sit in captured before NeuralRepo considers it stale. The same control governs the stale-idea nudge emails.

API

curl -X PATCH https://neuralrepo.com/api/v1/user/me \
  -H "X-API-Key: nrp_YOUR_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"settings_json": "{\"stale_threshold_days\": 60}"}'

Tip

A high capture rate and a low threshold make the queue noisy. If Review feels like a chore, raise the threshold to 60 or 90 days before you start archiving things you might still want.

The Email Version

The queue has a mailed counterpart. The weekly digest (Sunday, Pro) summarises the week including stale ideas, and a separate stale-idea nudge (Monday, all plans, capped to about once a month) points at the same ideas the Gone quiet section lists. Both respect stale_threshold_days, and both can be turned off in Settings ▸ Notifications.

Next Steps

Duplicate Detection How pairs are found, what merging really does, and how to tune the thresholds.

Idea Relations What the connections in the queue mean, and which ones NeuralRepo makes itself.

Status Workflow Where 'Develop' moves an idea, and what the other four statuses are for.

Weekly Digest The emailed version of the same signals, and how to tune or silence it.