Internally we’ve taken a long hard look at how we do things at Workflowy, especially since growing the team. For now, we hope this feature update has piqued your interest and shown you that new and exciting things are coming to Workflowy soon. There are more things happening in the background and we’ll mention these over the coming weeks as they become relevant. So there you have it, those are the two big things we’ve been working on and are continuing to develop. But we’ll let you know in these updates how we’re feeling as time passes and the features take shape. We don’t have a fixed release date for these and will instead release when we feel confident they’re ready and useful. This screenshot is of the mentions feature, note Jay’s shocking lack of emojis This shows the changes feature in its current state and is absolutely subject to change Here’s a top-secret sneak peek at what the features look like right now. However, we’re confident that when we release the features, they’ll provide users that have been wanting to use Workflowy in a more formal team setting with the tools they need to be successful. Designing them to work in a “Workflowy” way that makes sense and fits with the rest of the experience is what’s tricky. It’s easy to say we’re doing these things. Of course, this is something you’ll be able to turn off if you don’t want notifications of any kind. In addition, we’re hoping to provide notifications of your mentions so you don’t have to check Workflowy to see if you have a mention. You’ll also be able to quickly view your own mentions and reply if desired. Mentions will allow you to get the attention of anyone on your team to either tell them something or assign an item to them. This makes asynchronous collaborative work in Workflowy much easier. No more asking if someone has updated “the thing”, you’ll be able to see that yourself. That means you’ll be able to see what has changed, how it was changed, when and by who. Essentially change tracking and mentions.Ĭhange tracking will allow anyone on the team to keep up with all the changes made across the entire shared item. That’s where you come in!Īs you’ll see on the product updates page, we’re currently busy working on two key features. We want to start involving users earlier in the development process to make sure we’re working on the problems that users really need solved. Over time we’ll refine the product updates page to reflect that reality and make it easier to see what other users have already requested.įor upcoming features, we’ll be using the blog and the Workflowy user group to ask the community for feedback. We hope this page will make it easy to answer the age-old question of what are the folks at Workflowy doing instead of adding ? Jokes aside, we do listen and take into consideration every feature request we receive. And finally, you’ll be able to see the latest release notes. You’ll be able to see links to our latest big releases, a roadmap of sorts that shows what we’re currently working on and what we plan to focus on next. This page will make it easy to check what we’re up to at any given moment. In addition, we would like to take this opportunity to present our shiny new product updates page. That means making it easier to share documents, and refer and invite others to enjoy Workflowy. Our third track, growth, will be focused on making it easier for users of all types to discover and share the Workflowy experience with others. By that we mean taking the great single-user experience and extending it with more useful and powerful features (think dates, templates, calendar integration, etc.). By laying the groundwork for what we affectionately call “charming collaboration”, we hope to make Workflowy a powerful alternative to today’s bloated and clunky team organization software. In the near future, that’s what we hope to achieve. Rather, we plan to work on three distinct tracks in parallel – core Workflowy features, collaborative features, and growth.įor collaborative features, imagine taking the fast, minimalist experience of Workflowy and then being able to use that with your entire team or company. To be clear, this doesn’t mean focusing exclusively on collaboration. We’ve drawn up a plan that we feel will take what is currently a great single-user experience and enable great multi-user experiences. While we do currently have some collaboration functionality, it’s not nearly as robust or useful as we would like. However, this isn’t always a great experience. Users have naturally shared Workflowy with friends and colleagues and invited them to collaborate. For years, Workflowy has been a focused on providing a great single-user experience. Rather, we started this year discussing and planning for the future of Workflowy. Despite the rumors, we have not been relaxing on a beach in the Bahamas.
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