Working with Topics

Topics are content ideas that have been ideated and saved in Chatter. These articles cover everything you can do with them — editing, regenerating, exporting, and collaborating.

In this guide

1. Viewing your topic library
2. Reconfiguring a topic
3. Suggesting new stories for a topic
4. Regenerating a topic
5. Highlighted (selective) regeneration
6. Tagging teammates on a topic
7. Exporting topics
8. Deleting topics

Viewing your topic library

The Topics tab is your team’s shared library of content ideas. Everything anyone in your instance generates lives here.

What you’ll see

Topics created by anyone on your team appear in the library, with the creator and creation date. You can browse them, click into any one to read or edit, or filter to find what you need.

Sorting and filtering

• Audience — show topics created for a specific persona or audience.
• Solution — show topics tagged to a specific solution area.
• Keywords — narrow to topics that mention specific terms.

Drafts

Topics that you started generating but didn’t save end up in the Drafts section. You can return to them later or discard them.

Reconfiguring a topic

Reconfiguring lets you change a topic’s parameters — title, audience, solution, keywords, content type — and refresh the underlying source stories. Use this when a topic needs to pivot, or when you want to repurpose it for a new audience or format.

How to reconfigure

• Open the topic in the Topics library.
• Click Reconfigure to open the configuration panel.
• Edit any of the topic’s parameters: title, audience, solution, keywords, content type.
• Optionally, click Suggest Stories to find new source stories that match your updated parameters.
• Click Save Changes.

What changes

Reconfiguring updates the topic’s metadata and (if you ran Suggest Stories) its source stories, but it doesn’t automatically regenerate the topic content. To refresh the actual outline and copy, click Regenerate Topic after saving your reconfiguration.

Tips

• Reconfigure is great for repurposing — start with a topic you’ve already generated, change the audience or content type, and have Chatter rework it for a new use case.

Suggesting new stories for a topic

Sometimes the source stories that originally fed a topic are no longer the strongest fit — maybe you’ve changed the topic’s angle, or fresher stories have hit your feed since you created it. Suggest Stories finds new ones.

How to suggest new stories

• Open the topic and click Reconfigure.
• Click Suggest Stories.
• Wait a moment — Chatter searches your entire stories feed for matches based on the topic’s title, audience, content type, solution, and keywords.
• Review the suggested stories. Remove any that don’t fit and the suggestions will refresh.
• Save the topic when you’re happy with the source list.

When to use it

• You’ve reconfigured a topic and the original sources don’t match the new angle anymore.
• The topic was created weeks ago and you’d like to incorporate fresher reporting.
• You manually deleted a source story and want a replacement.

Regenerating a topic

Regenerating tells Chatter to rebuild a topic’s content from scratch using the current configuration and source stories.

How to regenerate

• Open the topic.
• Click Regenerate Topic.
• Wait for Chatter to produce the new draft.
• Compare the new draft to your existing one. Accept it to overwrite, or try again if it’s not quite right.

What you’ll see

Chatter shows you the new draft side-by-side with your existing one before you commit. You can accept it (and the topic updates) or try again (and it regenerates with the same inputs).

Tokens

A full regeneration uses around 2,000 tokens, give or take depending on the content type and length. The exact cost is shown after each action.

Tips

• If a regeneration is 80% there, use highlighted regeneration to fix only the weak parts. It’s cheaper and more precise than a full rerun. 

Highlighted (selective) regeneration

If you like most of a topic but want to rework a specific section, you can highlight just that part and have Chatter regenerate only what’s selected. The rest stays exactly as it is.

How to do it

• Open the topic.
• Highlight the text you want Chatter to regenerate — a sentence, a bullet, a whole section, whatever you choose.
• Click Regenerate (the option becomes available once text is selected).
• Review the new version Chatter produces for the highlighted section.
• Accept it to replace the highlighted text, or try again.

Why this is useful

Most of the time, an AI-generated draft is 80% there. You like the opener but the bullets feel weak, or vice versa. Selective regeneration lets you keep what’s working and only rework what isn’t, instead of throwing the whole thing out and rolling the dice on a new version.

Tips

• Selective regeneration uses fewer tokens than a full topic regeneration because Chatter only has to produce the highlighted portion.

Tagging teammates on a topic

Tag a teammate on a topic to ask them to review, edit, or research it. They’ll get a notification with a link to the topic.

How to tag someone

• Open the topic.
• Find the assignment or comment field within the topic editor.
• Type the teammate’s name.
• Add a brief note — what you’d like them to do, any context they need.
• Send. The teammate gets a notification.

Common use cases

• Asking a writer to expand the outline into a full draft.
• Asking a subject matter expert to fact-check a section.
• Asking a manager or peer to proof your final draft.
• Looping in a designer or marketer to develop the visual or distribution side.

Tips

• Guests can be tagged and receive notifications, but can’t run any AI actions—only read and comment. 

Exporting topics

When you’re ready to take a topic out of Chatter, you can export it as a PDF or Markdown file.

Export formats

• PDF — formatted, ready to share with stakeholders or save for reference.
• Markdown — plain-text format with light structure (headings, lists). Best for piping into another tool, an AI workflow, or a CMS.

How to export

• Open the topic.
• Click Export.
• Choose PDF or Markdown.
• The file downloads to your computer.

Choosing a format

Use PDF when the topic is the final deliverable — for example, a one-to-one message you’re going to send, or a short post you’ll publish as-is.

Use Markdown when the topic is an input to something else. If you’re feeding it into your own AI workflow, a CMS, or a writing tool, Markdown is leaner and easier to work with.

Deleting topics

If a topic isn’t worth keeping, you can delete it from your library. Heads up — deletes are permanent.

How to delete

• Open the topic, or hover over it in the topic library.
• Click Delete.
• Confirm in the dialog. The topic is gone.

What happens to associated data

Source stories used in the topic are not deleted — they remain in your Stories feed (or saved stories, if you saved them). Only the topic itself, including its outline and any edits, is removed.

Tips

• There is no trash or undo. If you might want a topic later, export it first as a backup, then delete.