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CHANGELOG

Get an inside peak into what’s shipping in Hypercontext, feature updates, and
bug fixes. Updates are presented by Product and Engineering. 🥳



OCTOBER 2022


BETTER NOTE-TAKING AHEAD

The ease of taking good meeting notes has a huge impact on the flow of your
meeting and the accountability of your whole organization. This month, we
released a couple of new updates to help improve — you guessed it — your
note-taking experience. We’ve made some refinements to the layout of agenda
items. Plus, presence indicators are now available in even more places
throughout the agenda. 


NOTABLE UPDATES

AGENDA ITEM REDESIGN

 * What used to be “add summary” is now “add notes.” Same idea, better words.
 * Buttons to add notes and next steps are always visible for quick note-taking.
 * Agenda Items have a fresh new design with a “focus mode” when editing. It’ll
   keep things organized while still feeling fluid. 
 * The “repeat” button is closer to the other commands, making it easy to set
   items to be recurring.
 * You can see who created each agenda item and when – so you know which items
   need to go.
 * Adding notes no longer automatically closes the item.

 * Presence indicators are now in notes and next steps, in addition to the
   agenda item.




OTHER UPDATES

 * Improvements to adding items in Google Meet, so no content is lost when you
   click expand
 * Improvements to presence appearance for guest users
 * Fixed issues with updating agenda description
 * Improved load time for discussion and channel inbox items 
 * Improvements to onboarding when connecting and disconnecting a calendar
 * Updated the overflow menu in the Workspace header to be a gear icon when
   autopilot-always-on is active
 * Event times are displayed in 12h format on the calendar page
 * Users can swap roles in 1:1s even if they’re not the manager
 * Updated implementations of rich text editor to use the focus out
   functionality when a user hits the ESC key
 * “Auto set up new agenda” setting updates the “set up new agenda” button
 * Disconnecting all events from the workspace changes the countdown timer for
   the next meeting automatically
 * If a meeting finishes with no agenda title, it saves as the date of the
   meeting
 * Updated the meeting minutes email function to ensure it doesn’t send if the
   user has turned off that option
 * Improved the ability to update agenda titles
 * Improved webhooks to wait for auto setup to finish before updating meeting
   times
 * Fixed the autocorrect bug so autocorrecting a word in a list only corrects
   that word rather than the whole sentence
 * The side menu stays closed after visiting mini-screens
 * Updated cursor to pointer when it’s hovering comment icon
 * Goals are sorted by date when completed/closed

SEPTEMBER 2022


PREPARE FOR YOUR NEXT MEETING, AUTOMATICALLY

Meetings now automatically finish themselves (and if they’re recurring, they’ll
also set up themselves for next time).

With this update comes more clarity on dates and times for your meeting agenda,
more accountability for what was discussed, and less risk of forgetting to set
up next week’s meeting. So you’re always organized and prepared (even when
you’re not 😉).


NOTABLE UPDATES



 * When you set up a new Hypercontext workspace and sync it with your calendar,
   automations will default to on.


 * Choose whether you want automations on or off at the top of your agenda.


 * Your automation settings will determine what happens when the current meeting
   ends and how the next meeting agenda gets set up.



 * We also updated the user experience for responsive screen sizes.




OTHER UPDATES

 * Updated item save routes to avoid 422 errors
 * Pro trials can now be reset for users after a certain amount of time
 * When opening the Hypercontext Chrome extension in Google Meet, the video will
   squish to account for the agenda overlay
 * Paging for dashboard users
 * The ability to export discussion data in the dashboard
 * Improvements to the multiplayer note taking experience, so notes don’t get
   lost
 * Improvements to load time for Discussion and Channel inbox items

AUGUST 2022


COLLABORATE IN REAL-TIME

Over the last month, the team’s been working on some exciting updates, including
the ability to see who’s making edits in the agenda, and improvements to help
make your overall experience on the app much smoother. ⛵️


NOTABLE UPDATES

 * See which team members are in the agenda.

 * See when someone on your team is editing an item or description.

🤫 Coming soon: This function will be available anywhere you can add/edit
content.




OTHER UPDATES

 * We deleted the main landing page on the web app, so you can cut to the chase
   and go straight into your next meeting.


 * There’s no more character limit on item titles
 * Improved drag and drop on next steps
 * Improved section drag and drop
 * Communities on a business plan trial can add/update their credit card
 * Icons in the app have been updated to material symbols
 * Fixed summaries duplicating across items



JULY 2022


IMPROVING YOUR CORE EXPERIENCE

The summer is going by quickly… we’re keeping pace with it by working to quickly
improve the agenda creation and note taking experiences. While that might be
less rewarding for me to share with you, I’m hoping it’s much more rewarding for
you.

In other words we don’t have a big feature to announce but everything you’re
already using just got a whole lot better.

Brennan




OTHER UPDATES

 * Agenda note taking experience:
   * Improved text formatting when cycling between colors
   * Reduced formatting loss on repeating items after a meeting finishes
   * Improved ability to click links that were added to new rich text
   * Adjusted visibility of agenda controls after summary/description deletion
   * Adjusted initial sizing of pasted images/screenshots in our rich text
     areas.
   * Adjusted initial sizing of our note taking areas to reduce jitter when you
     first begin editing text.
   * Multiple improvements for long and large agendas with lots of content
   * Improved ability to select text of next steps
   * All emojis now use the native operating system’s style.
   * Added support for brackets in links
   * Removed character limits on agenda item titles
 * Significantly improved reliability of realtime updates all over our app
   including in:
   * Agenda descriptions
   * Goal comments and descriptions
   * User invites and removals to meetings
   * Past meeting editing and deleting
   * Meeting rating display updates
   * Editing, completing, deleting of next steps, including adding additional
     information to next steps like user assignments
   * Fixes for users with guest permissions (and/or cross company workspaces)
   * Multiple improvements for long and large agendas with lots of content
 * Guest user related
   * Guest Users are now restricted from disconnecting/editing an event linked
     to workspace
   * Guest users may now be upgraded (via support) to full membership
     permissions in different organizations and gain access to all paid
     functionality in those organizations workspaces.
 * Navigation related
   * Unicode emojis now used for workspace avatars and in navigation
   * Workspace sidebar sections bug fixes
 * Administration related:
   * Stored history for goals, milestones, and metric state changes.
   * Fixes a discussion invite page clipping people’s names
   * Updating credit cards has improved error messages



JUNE 2022


MORE FLEXIBLE AND RELIABLE CALENDAR SYNCING 📆

Not all meetings are on the same day, at the same time. That’s why we’re super
excited about this month’s new feature drop. 

Now you can connect multiple calendar events to the same workspace. For example,
say you have a weekly 1:1 with a direct report, and you also meet once a month
to chat about growth. You no longer need to keep those conversations in separate
Hypercontext workspaces. You can sync them both to the same agenda to make flow
of information, collaboration and follow through more seamless. 

We’ve also been doing a lot of work behind the scenes to make calendar syncing
stronger and more reliable.




NOTABLE UPDATES

 * Connect more than one calendar event to your workspace

 * You can also disconnect the calendar events just as easily.


OTHER UPDATES

 * Updated the ability to scroll in scratchpad rich editor
 * Removing joypixels class from images in rich line editor
 * Fixed bug- Showing the agenda meeting time in the Chrome extension
 * Fixed bug- Duplicate users in the channel invite modal
 * Updated to stop the toolbar from jumping to the middle
 * Added more support for guest states
 * Enhanced database transactions efficiency
 * Fixed bug- Empty discussion title sidebar issue
 * Updated discussion end date selector to close on click
 * Improved to sort discussion inbox items earliest to latest
 * Fixed bug- Rich editor not saving changes when clicking out of item modal
 * Improving item dragging
 * Modified so contents of the discussion date dropdown menu aren’t hiding in
   responsive view
 * Fixed bug- Description added to one item is repeated in all items added to
   the agenda
 * Modified so changes are reflected immediately when inviting members from the
   discussion settings
 * Added support for large content to Slack meeting notes



MAY 2022


THE BIGGEST, MOST REQUESTED, CHANGE TO MEETING NOTES 🔥

Spring has sprung…and so has inline rich text editing! This is a feature that
has been requested for a long time and one we’ve been working hard on over the
last few months. We’re thrilled to announce that you can now customize the text
within your workspace. Change the style, font, color and size of the text in
your agendas and in your goals. Plus, customized text will appear in your
emailed meeting notes. No more monotone meeting notes. 

This month we also made updates to improve the guest user experience. Now, no
matter what plan you’re on, guests have restricted access. Meaning, they can add
to the agenda, manage the topics they add, and track next steps. But, they can’t
access any other information or accidentally change something.




NOTABLE UPDATES

 * Inline rich text editing to customize content within your workspace


 * You can change the size, the color, make text bold, italic, add bullet
   points, etc. 


 * Rich text editing is available in your agendas AND in your goals


 * The customized text will also appear in your emailed meeting notes


 * Updates to the Guest User experience




OTHER UPDATES

 * Updated UX for guest user experience
 * Added support for markdown in Past Meetings PDFs
 * Fixed bug- Next steps disappearing when trying to assign a user or due date
 * Fixed bug- Unable to delete or close the last added milestone
 * Fixed bug- Pusher events don’t work when updating a shared note



APRIL 2022


MULTIPLE CALENDARS TO KEEP TRACK OF? NO PROBLEM.

Let’s be real, most people have more than one calendar to keep track of. Whether
it’s your personal calendar, your work calendar, your team calendar — the list
goes on.

With this month’s update, you can now connect to multiple calendars in your
Hypercontext sidebar. So you can access your whole schedule in one place. Plus,
nothing’s set in stone. You can select and change the calendars you’re connected
to anytime, without needing to call support (although we are always here for
you!).

See below for a step-by-step on how to connect and disconnect to various
calendars, plus other updates and fixes we worked on this month.




NOTABLE UPDATES

 * Connect Hypercontext to multiple calendars


 * Select and change which calendars you’re connected to


 * Disconnect from the calendar within the app (without contacting support)





OTHER UPDATES:

 * Agenda template design updates
 * Fixing android push notifications
 * Updates to dashboard PDF and exporting user data
 * Updates on calendar sync to fetch correct instances in a series for the next
   meeting
 * Press command to toggle user’s guest status



MARCH 2022


HEADING INTO Q2 WITH SOME EPIC PRODUCT EXPERIENCES 🚀

March felt like a blur. We had been pushing out updates to the platform from all
angles.

Behind the scenes we performed some minor point platform upgrades, security
patches, and database migrations to make sure our infrastructure stays modern,
performant and is as secure as possible. 

On our mobile and mac app clients we pushed out a few small UI tweaks and a push
notification change to keep things running smoothly. The majority of our updates
were made to the Web App.

We were able to check off our most highly requested feature to the web app this
month by adding the ability to share items from one workspace to another. To
make this incredibly intuitive we leveraged the workspace section manager, so if
you’ve already set up your sections, you would be able to share one item to
every workspace within one or more sections very easily. It’s highly
customizable and really sets the tone for the level of polish we are striving
for in all future developments.

To cap off the month we launched an ability to publicly share the agenda
templates you create with the world. Agenda Templates are a very important part
of our product. They are an entry-point for users who want to get the most out
of their meetings but not sure how to structure their agendas. They are also a
wealth of thought provoking conversation starters to help you tease every bit of
information out of your peers in meetings. Now customers can share their own
hand crafted meeting agendas with others either at their own company (a paid
feature, but now with a free workaround 😉 ) and with other managers from around
the world. 

It was a pretty good month of productivity and overall a strong quarter of
development.

See below for more details on some of the updates we made.


NOTABLE UPDATES:

 * Public Agenda Templates


 * Ability to share a link and let your employees create their own Hypercontext
   accounts


 * Save a workspace as template


 * Share Items to other workspaces


 * Adding content inline on the agenda


 * Full app support from Chrome Extension





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FEBRUARY 2022


GETTING BACK INTO HIGH GEAR 👷

The months are really starting to tick by and the team is making some great
progress into our roadmap already.

We started the month off with more platform and server upgrades. We completely
replaced our primary infrastructure and updated our backend framework to the
latest version. These updates provide us with better control over the entire
infrastructure with more security checks in place to keep the data safe. We were
also able to get some performance boosts with the upgrades, anywhere from
50-200ms have been shaved off our API response time. We’ll take that as a win!

It was a project, 5 months in the making, and I’m very happy to be on the latest
frameworks for our backend and nearing the latest for our frontend. During our
small scheduled downtime window, we were also able to perform a cold-start
restore test, which is a process run yearly to ensure we can rebuild our
infrastructure in the case of our primary facilities going offline.

In terms of feature updates, we rolled out updates to bring the full app
functionality into the Chrome extension and added a one-click login from our
main website into the app.

For a bit of flare, we added a new theme to select, just in time for Valentine’s
day. I think it’s safe to say we’ll be seeing more holiday themes in the near
future.

I look forward to showing all the things we are working on for next month.




NOTABLE UPDATES:

 * One-click login via Google from hypercontext.com

 * Valentines day theme added with dropdown theme selector


 * Added full product feature set functionality to the Chrome extension

 * Various platform and server updates & tested cold-start reboot process

JANUARY 2022


STARTING THE YEAR OFF FRESH WITH SOME INFRASTRUCTURE CHANGES

January flew by! It moved so fast, I forgot to fill out my changelog tweets.
SHAME! 🔔

We kicked the year off with our bi-annual hackathon. The team came up with some
really exciting feature enhancements that you’ll see roll out over the next few
months. A couple of my favourite projects were a real time presence indication
while you are in meeting agendas (It was pretty slick!) and copying an existing
meeting into a new template (a very popular request from customers).

Previously we had rolled out our WorkOS integration which adds single sign on
support for a multiple of Identify Providers. Recently, we added an in-app
portal where customers can configure their own integration without any
involvement from our side.  Within 4 hours of rolling this feature out across
our infrastructure, we had our first no-touch SSO configuration. 

We spent a weekend performing some backend infrastructure changes changes to
modernize our databases and added the ability to authenticate into our platform
regardless of authentication provider.  You can use Google, Slack or your Email
to log in interchangeably, this is one of a few projects we have underway to
move towards one URL and one central place where you can access all of your
workplaces.




NOTABLE UPDATES:

 * Updated DB servers to support native unicode and emoji

 * Implemented Desktop Notifications for our Mac App

 * Added ability to login to the Hypercontext platform with any authentication
   method

 * Added self-set up admin portal for SSO configurations

DECEMBER 2021


A GIFT TO YOU ALL AS WE WRAP UP THE YEAR!

Before we called a wrap on the year and shifted focus into some well deserved
holiday time with our friends, families and loved ones, we pushed out a pretty
big feature. 

We launched the ability to have external users in your meetings, providing them
with a top quality guest user experience. The best part about this experience,
these guest users don’t cost you a thing.

We’re launching this part of the product as a beta feature set, so for now guest
users will be able to perform the same actions as regular users, but this will
change in the coming months.

How can we tell who should be a guest user? If their email domain does not match
one of the validated emails in the organization settings, we mark them as guest
users.

Outside of that, we made a few quality of life improvements. We added a few more
colour options to help better personalize your workspaces and changed the
default emoji mascot list used when you create new workspaces.  If you didn’t
like the animal mascots, we’ve now added more business appropriate ones.  If you
miss the animals, so do I, you can still update the emoji mascot after creating
the meeting. 

We also kicked off a large project of enhancing our text entry process. For now,
we’ve added some soft returns to the next steps areas. But, over the next few
months you’ll see LOTS of changes to how you enter text. We are a meeting agenda
app… so we should probably be the best at this. 😎 

We hope you had a lovely holiday and are ready to take on the new year! Happy
New Year! 🍾




NOTABLE UPDATES:

 * Ability to add external users to a guest user experience within workspaces
   [BETA]
   Learn more about the guest user experience beta.

 * Added the ability to add “soft returns” (also known as line breaks) to your
   Next Steps


 * Added a “show more” field for long descriptions


 * New workspace colour options


 * Updated default emojis for workspaces



NOVEMBER 2021


A HYPER-EFFICIENT WORKFLOW AND INCREASED ENTERPRISE PRODUCT OFFERING

This month we were able to launch our first no-touch Single Sign On integration
with one of our large enterprise customers. Previously we had to schedule many
calls, export and share metadata files, install certificates and configure user
groups and claims on behalf of the customer.

Not any more!

We’ve created a more automated SSO set up, with helpful guides for many standard
SSO implementation partners. This will let the customer set up and manage their
own authentication system. There are a few more things currently in development
to make this fully seamless, but we’re getting there.

We’ve also deployed a brand new Slack bot replacing the existing one. Install
and invite the bot to a channel and connect it to an existing Hypercontext
workspace. When you finish your meetings in Hypercontext, the notes will be
auto-magically sent to slack in a detailed thread, allowing you to create a nice
historical record that will be fully searchable.

With these three products, the Mac app, Slack app and the Hypercontext Agenda
web or chrome app, all working together, we’ve made a very tight experience for
the full cycle of your management meeting day.  Stay on top of when your next
meeting is, and jump into the video conference. Use the web app or Chrome
Extension during the meeting to keep you on track while you have your meetings.
Finish the meeting and have the notes automatically sent to Slack to inform the
greater team and for your searchable historical records.

All of these improvements came straight from customer feedback, so thank you for
all of your support in helping us make the product what it is today. We’ll
continue to iterate and iterate to help you create a higher performing
workspace.

Happy Holidays from the Hypercontext team.




NOTABLE UPDATES:

 * Implemented OKTA SSO and added a lot more Enterprise authentication providers
   to our SSO list.


 * Added support for dark mode / light mode logos on our business plan


 * Introduced a domain verification process, that will let us support multiple
   email domains within one workspace more seamlessly


 * Added some workflow efficiencies by automatically opening up your next
   meeting in Hypercontext


 * Added better meeting overlapping management for the Mac App


 * Released a new Slack App. Add the bot to any Slack channel and when you
   finish your meetings in Hypercontext, we’ll send your meeting notes to any
   channel in Slack.





OTHER UPDATES:

 * Fuzzy time update for overlapping events in Mac app
 * Inline content addition: Updated blank states across all text entry points 
 * Inline content addition: Hot key navigation with tab controls and arrow keys
 * Added “show more” for long workspace descriptions 
 * Modified text input behavior for summaries and descriptions to include soft
   returns
 * Added soft returns to Next Steps
 * Fixed prioritization of items and sections issue
 * Fixed bug in creating sections
 * Fixed bug in referral rewards linking
 * Various calendar integration issues resolved
 * Backend service to change user’s email
 * Auto hide sidebar on mobile
 * Updated support links in Admin onboarding
 * Fixed Business account deferred user issue
 * Modified follow-up emails to not go out for one off meetings or meetings with
   no next-meeting-date
 * Removed low usage push notifications from mobile apps

OCTOBER 2021


A NEW MAC APP YOU SAY? 👀

October was a strong month for the product and engineering team. We’re well on
our way to fixing all the small annoying things that are getting in your way as
a customer.

On top of that focus, after implementing some customer feedback, we’ve launched
our Mac App on the App Store. This helper app is the perfect companion to the
Hypercontext platform that will help you get to your Zoom meetings, Google
Hangouts, and Microsoft Teams chats incredibly fast.

“I’m late because I couldn’t find the conference link” won’t be a thing you’ll
ever say again. 

It’s available now to download!  Check it out and reach out with any feedback or
requests!

Hypercontext Mac App



NOTABLE UPDATES:

 * The discussions starting page gets a much needed makeover 💅 (And you can now
   upload your own cover photo!)


 * Upload your own profile picture





OTHER UPDATES:

 * Improved UX for agenda items styling
 * Removed character limits when editing an item
 * Removed 24 hour meeting notification
 * Fixed Slack “any auth” login causing a looped login issue
 * Fixed a Stripe tax charging bug
 * Fixed edge cases with obscure video conference links
 * Fixed issues in Markdown causing links not to be clickable
 * Fixed past meetings not displaying for some users

SEPTEMBER 2021


BETTER HYGIENE FOR MANAGING YOUR MEETINGS

Over the next few months you’re not going to see a lot of brand new features
coming into Hypercontext. We’ll be more focused on cleaning up how all of the
feature functionality works together in harmony instead. That means a lot of UX
fixes!

One thing that’s central to our systems thinking and product design is that you
get the most value out of Hypercontext when it helps you have highly organized
and performant meetings. So, we’ve focused on cleaning up inefficiencies and
idiosyncrasies across the whole product, especially ones that our customers have
brought to our attention.

If you have product feedback, please reach out and let us know.

We’ve also spent part of the month focused on helping customers onboard into the
product, connect a calendar, add a few items and socialize the agenda, all as
quickly and effortlessly as possible. I’m pretty happy with the latest version
of this onboarding process and based on our metrics, our customers are too!


One of the more friction-heavy parts of our app is the finish meeting flow. 
It’s complicated because a lot of our magic happens when you press the “Finish
Meeting” button. It can seem daunting and scary, but it really shouldn’t be. So
we’ve launched an experiment to help auto finish your meetings, so you don’t
have to press it at all.

All in all, a good month for the product and engineering teams (and our
customers!). 🥳




NOTABLE UPDATES 🙌

 * Introducing… Autopilot! ✈️


 * Organize your meetings with new workspace sections (plus drag and drop
   functionality!)


 * A fancy new Mac App 👀


Download the Mac App
 * Launched v3 of Linkify.js.org




OTHER UPDATES:

 * Added a follow up email to nudge meeting attendees to open the agenda
 * Added an email to let managers know if their direct reports haven’t opened
   the meeting agenda invite 
 * Enhancements to our guest user experience (in beta):
   * Indication of guest user in invite modal
   * Indication of guest user in settings page
 * Various Metrics updates
 * UI fixes for “Sections”
 * Fix for Conference links from Zoom and WebEx
 * Added Magic link authentication to the Change URL email

AUGUST 2021


YC DEMO DAY ON THE HORIZON!

August was a pretty big month for us at Hypercontext. Although we didn’t get as
much out to customers as we’d have liked, we did a lot of behind the scenes
testing and experimenting with some new features and making a lot of backend
infrastructure improvements.

We continue to spend an above average amount of time on technical debt,
including server upgrades, getting our core frameworks onto the latest LTS
versions and fixing up our own backend tooling. It’s a hard balancing act to
prioritize features versus technical debt. We felt it was important to tackle
some of our core technical challenges as we were making significant changes to
our core feature sets.

We’ve moved our entire development team over to using dockerized containers that
are more like our production environment configurations and take us one step
closer to running Infrastructure as Code (IaC). We’re likely to move our
production infrastructure to IaC in Q4 of 2021 or early 2022.

The YC S21 demo day kicks off early September, so the team has been working full
tilt to put the final polish on the launch features, making sure all the systems
are operating at peak performance and ensuring our marketing page loads
incredibly fast.




NOTABLE UPDATES

 * Added the ability to customize a workspace from a calendar event before
   sharing it with meeting attendees


 * Full Emoji 14.0 support from all workspace pickers (that includes
   one-on-ones, team meetings and discussions)


 * Added a finish meeting reminder to prompt you within 5 minutes before your
   meeting ends to close out completed items and end the meeting. It can be
   snoozed if it pops up too early.
 * Revamped our meetings notes emails with a fresh new design that uses less
   HTML to fit more content into your email before your email client cuts off
   the list


 * Launched a brand new marketing website that looks beautiful and provides the
   team with lots of design customizability so they can focus on producing our
   top-quality content!





BEHIND THE SCENE IMPROVEMENTS

 * Moved the majority of our CI tooling over to CircleCI from Travis-CI (cheaper
   plans and faster build times)
 * Created a staging environment that is 1:1 mirrored with production in terms
   of configuration (minus the data)
 * Added clearer focus to adding content in onboarding by removing search and
   upgrade actions
 * Added onboarding steppers to better direct users into ding the proper user
   behaviour
 * Changed rating of our Giphy integration to PG
 * Language changes to our payment upgrade modal for clearer differentiating
   between monthly and annual payment plans
 * Language changes on Item detail “Show Completed” to “Show completed next
   steps”
 * When a member has no workspaces, added a prompt to create a workspace as the
   main 
 * Added core logic for a new slack app experience
 * Built out core functionality of mac desktop app
 * Made various upgrades to a lot of underlying third-party components
 * Upgraded our backend framework to the latest version
 * Trialled an auto-finish meeting flow which we’ll launch as an Opt-in feature
   in September



September is already looking like a pretty strong month from the Product and
Engineering team, so I look forward to giving you next month’s changelog!

Take care and wish us luck at YC S21 Demo Day!

– G



JULY 2021


SHAKING THINGS UP

A lot has happened over the past month as we shake things up at Hypercontext.
We’re 6 weeks into a process change experiment where we’ve moved from working in
bi-weekly sprints to working in weekly cycles.

We fully moved off JIRA (our product management tool that I’ve used to manage
our product/engineering pipelines for 10 years) and onto Linear.  The reason for
the shift from JIRA to Linear was to ensure we only use products that reflect
the quality, efficient, and purpose-built nature that we’re striving for with
Hypercontext.  

With this switch in tools, we’ve seen a pretty decent pace change in engineering
output and Product now has double the amount of input it can have on the
engineering direction to ensure we’re building a product that customers want to
use.  These are great things to see as a product and engineering leader.




FIXES AND IMPROVEMENTS WORTH A LOOK

 * Improved UX for the header navigation of your workspaces
 * Added a workspace creation page to help you customize your workspace before
   you create it.
 * Added a calendar based navigation for your Hypercontext workspaces, so you
   can quickly pop into your next meeting in your day.


 * Added a calendar sidebar date picker, so you can easily go to meeting events
   in the future.


 * Improved our item sorting on the agenda


 * Improved keyboard shortcuts


 * Added ability to create next steps for items right from the workspace agenda
   view:


 * Removed the 30 next step limit:



 * Changed our default UX for handling text inputs for summaries and
   descriptions. ENTER (or RETURN on Mac) can be used to create new line breaks
   in the text. Move the cursor off focus to save the text:





BEHIND THE SCENES

We’ve made significant infrastructure changes to the platform to increase it’s
availability as we expand globally.

 * Moved our backup processes to use a non-locking approach. This will stop our
   Australian and New Zealand friends from seeing system lock errors at
   non-opportune times.
 * Increased data redundancy with a new DB design. It’s faster, stronger… just
   better all around.
 * Fully implemented our DNS tooling for better site protection and
   availability.
 * Made various performance improvements and platform upgrades to keep our
   system secure and performant.
 * Various quality of life improvements. Pushing a few pixels around to make
   things better.
 * Added serious improvements to our developer tooling, increasing our
   engineering happiness10x.




LOOKING FORWARD.

Over the next 30 days, you’ll start to see some of the larger feature work we’ve
been primarily focused on this quarter start to roll out.  

Here’s what we anticipate shipping:

 * Log into Hypercontext using any of our authentication methods, not just the
   one you signed up with
 * Improvements to our large group discussions feature sets
 * A lot of improvements to onboarding and the invitee experience.
 * A trial run of our guest users
 * Beta launches of a brand new Slack App and Desktop App (for Mac)

If you want to join our beta program and try out the new features, reach out.



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