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"Create from…" (materialize) — turn messages, lists, rows and documents into new lists/documents/posts #10

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What the web app has

Create from… (/help/create-from) turns almost anything the user already has into a new
List, a new Document, both at once, or a Message — without retyping it. It is
one of the platform's signature cross-object features and it is reachable from nearly every
surface.

What Android has

Nothing. POST /api/materialize is not called anywhere in the app.

API surface

POST /api/materialize — "Create a new List, a new Document, or both from a source object
(message(s), list, rows, document)."
The body carries a source descriptor.

The four destinations

Destination Result
To List A new list, one row per item; columns adjustable before creating
To Doc A new markdown document containing the item's content
To List & Doc Both, in a single step
To Message Opens the composer prefilled — creates nothing on its own

Subscriber gating

Creating lists and documents needs an active subscription; To Message goes through the normal
composer, so posting itself is free while cross-posting/scheduling stay subscriber features. Free
accounts can open the menu but confirming prompts to subscribe.

Done when

All sub-issues are closed and a user can materialize from a message, a list, a set of rows and a
document on a device, with the preview/edit step behaving as the web one does.


Filed from the parity review of feature/parity-wip @ 14d7795 against interlinedlist.com (OpenAPI /api/openapi.json, 233 paths) and the public help centre.

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    P1Big hole in a shipped featurearea:documentsDocumentsarea:listsListsarea:messagesSocial messages feed & composerepicA feature area tracked as a parent issueparityClosing a gap against interlinedlist.com

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