At last, we launched on product hunt last month and we've received an overwhelming amount of positive (and constructive) feedback. We've been heads down fixing some bugs and making the product more stable with each release.
2021 has started off strong. We've spent the last few weeks tightening up the experience and squashing any major bugs. Huge thank you goes out to Marv and Tom for helping us shape the experience over the last month.
We're in the process of building some new features that will differentiate Input's the entire experience from all the other products out this quarter. If you want to see a sneak peak, you can join our slack community channel. Cheers all!
We're finishing 2020 strong with a myriad of updates across the board. It's a time to celebrate, reflect and prepare for next year. Over the last several weeks we have been working hard to ship some new things:
Comments
Now you can add comments to any paragraph, bullet point, and image. Comments are perfect for keeping you and your team in sync.
Additional Context
One of the biggest pain points in task management is getting assigned tasks with no context. We want an experience that fosters collaboration and giving people the right context to work with each other, so every time you assign a task to someone, you'll be prompted to add a comment. Context is king, and it'll help everyone get things done together in a natural way.
Micro Interactions
We've spent some time refining hover states across the board. When you hover over bullet points, you'll notice a small pulsating animation. Small refinements like this will help encourage you and your team to check things off.
First Time Welcome Doc
Every new account will get a short welcome email that walks them through all of Input's features. As you invite people, they'll get a warm message from our team that helps guide them through their first time experience.
Mark Anything and Everything Complete
You can now hover over any paragraph to mark it done by clicking on the button with three dots (we call this the "kabob" menu).
Presence Indicator
We've created a prototype experience that shows you when someone else is interacting with a doc. At the moment, the dot appears when someone else is editing the Title of the document. In the future, we will add more fidelity around this interaction, to help you understand who's using the document and what they're doing.
Images v0.2
We've updated images now so that you can mark them as complete, as well as drag them around in the document. Images now work like all other interactive items in the document.
Updated Homepage
While this is not a feature, we wanted to point out that we've updated the homepage too. We were feeling it needed a refresh, so we took a second to spruce things up so we're ready for 2021.
As we build new features, we are committed to making sure our product is stable for you to get more done. We are serious about delivering performance, stability, and an intuitive experience. We want to build a collaborative document that you're used to, with the light weight power of task management. There are some serious technical challenges that we've encountered along the way, but our team is commited to to making it just work, without compromises.
"It just works" is a slogan was inspired by our friends at Dropbox, and it's a mantra that has inspired us as well. We still have a lot to do, but we wanted to thank all the beta testers for being patient, giving us feedback, and helping us work towards building the vision. The most recent release is focused less around features and more around making the product stable and reliable.
Stability and Performance:
Improved User Experience
Rolled Back:
Transform any bullet point and text into an actionable task. Smart bullets are perfect for outlines, plans, meeting notes, and any projects you want to move forward.
We've spent the last couple of months working with our active users to understand how they were using notes and documents, and there was singular common theme—they needed to get things done within a document without using more tools. We still have a lot to build, but our goal is to make everything in a document actionable, while fostering accountability and a natural way for people to work.
And as an extra, you can also transform each block of text (like a sentence or paragraph) into an actionable task.
Smart bullet point features:
Additional bug fixes & refinements:
As teams are adapting to getting things done remotely, we've reimagined our iOS app (for iPhone and now iPad). It takes advantages of some of the new UI features that iOS 14 offers. A quick shout out to our buddy Dennis for reporting some bugs and testing out some early builds.
We've got some big things brewing behind the curtains, but until that ships, we wanted to keep things moving. Here are a couple of updates that you'll enjoy.
A quick shout out to all the beta users playing with Input. All of these enhancements in this release have been based on your feedback. In addition, several issues that have been fixed based on user testing, recommended by Garrett Camp! Thanks for the advice—this is now part of our process.
Features & improvements
Bug fixes & refinements
As we build our product, we are listening directly to user feedback. As we build big features, we're also keep an eye on the small things that help folks create bigger and better notes. A quick shout out to Belinda for being extraordinary beta testers and choosing Input.
Features & improvements
Bug fixes & refinements
Our team recently hosted a virtual offsite inviting users to provide feedback directly to our team. We took time to look at the entire spectrum of features, enhancements and bugs and we have prioritized this quarter to deliver features that will help you collaborate with your team. In addition, we have also set a clear roadmap to improve our user experience based on user feedback from our community and usertesting.com.
Features & improvements
Bug fixes & refinements
As you find yourself using Input more, getting to your most important notes faster is critical. Thanks to our early beta testeres your feedback—we hope that these new features save you time.
Features & improvements
Bug fixes & refinements
Our team has listened your feedback and paid attention to the details to improve the experience. A special thanks goes out to all the folks hitting us up with ideas and ways to polish Input. Thanks Jen, Hoo, Merci, Charlotte, Belinda, Yong, Joe, Dennis and Justin.
Features & improvements
Bug fixes & refinements
We're happy to announce two new major features that will help you collaborate with your team and never lose important tasks assigned to you. Input is the best way to connect your team's knowledge and and getting things done. We'd like to thank our #community channel for giving us so much feedback along the way.
Features & improvements
Bug fixes & refinements
Go ahead and update your iOS app now for the latest version of Input. It's the biggest update since we've launched the beta, and it has a ton of goodies waiting for you. In addition, we've made it easier to request for access for notes from people.
Features & improvements
Bug fixes & refinements
Want to know when someone has checked off a task? Then this update is for you. When you assign someone a task, you will be notified when it's complete or reopened. We also added image support, so you can drop in screenshots, inspiration and gifs to help plan and get things done.
Features & improvements
Bug fixes & refinements