Sidebar widget brainstorm 🧠

A design brainstorm for ways we can use the Stack Overflow sidebar more purposely. Right now we treat it as a junk drawer.

My ideas can mostly be categorized into the following categories:
• Surface things currently hidden in menus or settings.
• Combine data we already have in new ways.
• Call out announcements and reminders (we’re not great at in-product marketing)
• Just-in-time guidance

Not sure how much of this we’ll act on, but it was a fun diversion for a day or two 🤠