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Naming: rename the board sidebar — candidate "sideboard" #177

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The left panel that lists/switches between boards (currently headed "boards", #sidebar / <nav id=\"scopes\">) could use a more distinctive name. This issue tracks naming candidates.

Now that the panel does more than list — it sorts by Name / Created / Updated and shows per-board recency (#176) — it's becoming a real named surface, so a good name is worth settling.

Lead candidate: sideboard

A portmanteau of sidebar + board.

  • 👍 Memorable, on-brand, playful; literally "the side panel of boards".
  • 👍 Short, reads well as a UI label and in docs/code.
  • 👎 Collides with the furniture sense ("a sideboard in the dining room") — minor, and unambiguous in context.

Other candidates to weigh

  • board rail / rail — common UI term for a side strip
  • board switcher — describes the action (switching boards)
  • deck — "a deck of boards"
  • boards panel — literal, safe, a bit plain
  • boardbar — sidebar↔boardbar
  • shelf — boards sitting on a shelf
  • stack — a stack of boards

Decision checklist

  • Pick the name (or keep "boards")
  • Decide scope: just the visible heading/label, or also internal identifiers (#scopes, scope-* classes, "scope" in code/docs)?
  • Update viewer UI label + any user-facing docs/README
  • Note: "scope" → "board" was already done user-facing (feat(viewer): Share button — copy a deep link to the current scope #152); this would be the panel's own name

cc @ivanmkc — leaning sideboard; what's your call?

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