The original note, as written at the time
Here is something I would like to do with big chat players like Meta and X. I want to be able to set multiple chats dedicated to particular subjects. The primary reason is that I want to link these multiple chat spaces to objects in three-dimensional space. When a user clicks on an object in that simulated 3D space they will be presented with the option to access these specialised chats.
Ongoing development
The ability to run multiple chats dedicated to particular subjects, and to link those chat spaces to objects in a simulated three-dimensional space — so that clicking on an object in that space offers the chats that belong to it.
The chats are not the idea. The binding of a conversation to a thing is.
Every organisation has knowledge that belongs to a place: the conversation about the pump belongs to the pump, the argument about the stair belongs to the stair. In the tools we use, that knowledge belongs to a channel, and the channel is a list of names in a sidebar with no relationship to the building.
Bind the conversation to the object and two things happen. The room remembers, because the object carries its own history and anyone who looks at it can find what was decided about it. And the conversation gains a subject — a channel called Site Issues collects everything; a conversation attached to the stair collects the stair.
The 3D space is doing one specific job and it should not be asked to do more. It is a map of where things are, so that a person can find the thing they are thinking about by looking at it. That is a genuinely better index than a search box for buildings, machines, sites and assemblies, because people remember where a thing is far better than what it was called.
The failure mode is a ghost town. These spaces are built, the objects are tagged, and nobody returns because the conversation still happens in the app everyone already uses. So the chats must be the real chats, not a parallel system, or the whole structure is a model with nobody in it.
Bind to the thing, but live where the people are.