We have an incredibly exciting update for you today! As part of our ongoing mission to refactor and elevate key experiences within Atarim, we’re thrilled to bring you a completely revamped boards experience.

This release introduces a host of new features and improvements focused on speed, reliability, and enhanced user experience. These changes will soon be making their way into other areas of Atarim as we continue to refine and enhance our platform. We can’t wait for you to explore what’s next!

A brand new Kanban Board:

• Speed and Reliability Improvements: The new boards have been completely refactored for optimal speed and reliability, making interactions faster and smoother.

• Search Functionality: Search mirrors the inbox experience, allowing you to quickly find tasks and open them in a pop-out window.

• Sorting and Filtering: Instantly sort tasks by age, status, priority, or type, with results updating almost immediately.

• Projects Dropdown: The projects dropdown from the inbox has been integrated into boards, making it easier to switch between projects.

• Drag and Drop Task Updates: Tasks now update in real time when dragged across boards, with smoother drag-and-drop functionality.

• Bulk Actions: Moving multiple tasks at once is now faster and more intuitive, with real-time updates to task statuses.

• Task Pop-Out Component: Task details pop-out has been improved by reusing components from the inbox, adding more fluid transitions.

• Assigned Task Filtering: You can now filter tasks by assignee, making it easier to manage tasks within a project.

• Reponsiveness - The responsive view of boards has been completely updated, with the ability to drag the board around with a square at the bottom of the screen, making it super easy to navigate.

• Customizable Card View: You can now toggle various elements on task cards such as auto-screenshots, task types, project names, and page URLs for a personalized view.

• Temporary Customization: Current view customization changes are temporary and not yet saved across sessions.

• Future Updates: Soon, custom views will be saved per user and can be customized for each individual board. This will allow for more persistent and flexible board views tailored to each user's needs.

We have an absolutely huge release for you today. As we continue to refactor the most promiment experiences inside Atarim, we are super proud and excited to get a brand new implementation of the inbox into your hands.

These new additions and changes that we are doing will be present in other parts of Atarim as we continue to refactor and improve other pages, we can't wait for you to see what else we are working on.

Let's just jump right into it:

New Features

A Brand New Inbox

We’ve completely rebuilt our inbox from scratch with a streamlined layout, enhanced functionality, and faster load times for an improved user experience!

• Project Selection Dropdown: A new dropdown component enables users to switch between projects seamlessly, helping to manage project-specific inbox content with ease. There is also a search here, in replacement of the whole list, making it way easier to find the project you need.

• Powerful Search Functionality: Introducing a new search component based on the CMD-K pattern, allowing users to quickly find tasks, messages, and projects. It supports keyboard navigation and is fully responsive.

• Enhanced Task Management Filters: Users can now filter inbox items by status, priority, tags, project type and assignee. These filters are applied instantly, and multiple filters can be used simultaneously for better task organization.

• Rich Text Editor for Messages: We've replaced the rich text editor which allows for formatting messages with bold, italic, underlining, and lists in a much better fashion. Users can also add links and images (straight into the comment box), making communication more efficient.

• Task Details Component: We've completely removed the task attribute options from the sidebar and only showing the details now, to make it way easier for you to see what you're looking at.

• Inbox Message Attachments: Seamlessly view, download, and manage attachments within inbox messages, with support for various file types and large files, with all files that are uploades showing in the task details for easy access.

• New List View and Headers: A redesigned list view with improved headers provides a comprehensive overview of tasks and messages, helping users manage content efficiently.

• Unread tasks: Tasks can now be marked as unread, similar to how Slack or email handles messages. Bulk actions for managing multiple tasks at once have also been revamped to be more efficient.

• Enhanced Task Navigation: Arrows have been added to allow users to move between tasks seamlessly without needing to return to the task list.

• Streamlined Task Comments and Attachments: The design for comments has been improved, with faster and cleaner updates for comments, status changes, and file attachments. File attachments are now shown in bulk, reducing clutter.

• Time Tracking Improvements: Time tracking is more straightforward, allowing users to start, pause, and save timers directly from the inbox, without navigating to separate time entry pages.

• Canned responses on collaborate: You can now access your canned responses inside collaborate, this will enable you to quickly enter canned comments saving you having to type them out every single time.

Bug Fixes and Improvements

• Author Name Display Issues: Fixed an issue where incorrect author names were displayed in certain cases for inbox tasks and email notifications.

• Task Number Display Fixes: Fixed an issue where some internal tasks were displaying incorrect task numbers.

• Search and Pagination Fixes: Addressed issues with the search functionality not working properly on the projects page and fixed pagination problems when adding team members to workspaces.

• Logout Functionality Improvements: Logging out from the application now also correctly logs out users from extensions.

• Avatar Upload Issues: Fixed an issue where avatars could not be saved due to missing workspace IDs.

• Time Entry and Active Timer Sync: You can now start and stop timers directly from the inbox page, with active timers syncing across the inbox and sidebar.

We have a small release for 4.0.4 where we are continuing to tidy up little bugs.

In the background we are hard at work redesigning a bunch of screens with new functionalities and improvements, we can't wait to show you.

Here's the list for this release:

Bugs 🔴

• Export on boards: A 500 error was showing when trying to export tasks from the boards screen, this has now been fixed.

• Paginiation server error: When paginating tasks inside the task center of the WordPress plugin, an error was showing. This has now been fixed.

• Form submissions: There was an issue where form submissions were not saving correctly on the Atarim Dashboard, this has been fixed.

• Edit/Delete on task pop-over: The edit and delete option on comments inside the task pop-over was not showing in some cases, this has been fixed.

• Project search: Sometimes when searching for projects, it was showing duplicate results, this has been fixed.

Our second small release this week to fix some bugs and smooth out some workflows.

Bugs 🔴

• Wrong link in email: When inviting collaborators, sometimes the link inside the invite was throwing a 500 error when visiting the page, this is now fixed.

• Manual time entries: While adding time entries manually from the time entries screen, it was showing lists of tasks for the projects but it was empty when the email inbox was selected. This is now fixed.

• Design upload: The dropzone on the bottom of the designs sidebar on graphics was not showing, this is now fixed.

• Designs in image collaboration: The task count for designs was not updating correctly in the left sidebar on image collaboration, this is now fixed.

• Task creation on new projects: When new projects were being added through one click collaboration, leaving tasks was not showing correctly on the front-end. This is now fixed.

• Redirect from Chrome Extension: When activating the Chrome extension, sometimes there was an issue with the redirect, this is now fixed.

We’re excited to announce a new update today, featuring several bug fixes to improve your experience. Moving forward, we will release updates on a weekly or bi-weekly basis to swiftly address any issues and ensure the platform runs smoothly.

Our goal is to continually enhance your workflow and provide you with the best possible experience. Stay tuned for more improvements and updates!

Bug Fixes 🟠

• Missing emails in CC: There was an issue where emails that were CC'd and being received in the Atarim inbox were not being included, this has been fixed.

• Name in invite: When inviting users, the email sometimes was not showing the correct name, this has been fixed

• Deleting projects: There was a problem with deleting projects that were created from a certain date, this has been fixed.

• User avatar: Inside notifications the wrong user avatar was showing for some notifications, this has been fixed

• Error when sending emails: When sending emails sometimes a 500 error would cause the email to fail, this has been fixed.

• Teamwork integration: There was a problem with tasks not being pushed to Teamwork, this has been fixed.

• Time entries: When team members were creating time entries, they were displaying for other users, this has been fixed.

• Notifications: Due to a change in how we authenticate your login, the notifications sidebar was causing a loop, this has been fixed.

• Set password email: Collaborators who received an email to set their password were experiencing problems with the link provided, this has been fixed.

We're thrilled to roll out version 4.1.0, packed with essential updates! This release focuses on extensive refactoring, boosting the platform's performance and stability. We’ve also squashed several pesky bugs, ensuring a more seamless and reliable user experience.

Improvements 🟠

• Security update: We have changed the way tokens are being stored in your browser for increased security across the app.

• Bottom bar in site collaboration: We have refactored the rendering of the nav bar button in the bottom bar as it was causing some problems when viewing projects and not being logged in.

• Search inside inbox: The search inside the inbox was not as reliable as we wanted it to be, this has been refactored and improved, we are continuing to improve search by implementing elastic search and a few other functions.

• Refactored nav bar: We have refactored the entire nav to make it run smoother, and more efficiently in its own component.

• Authentication process: We have optimised the way in which we are authenticating accounts when logged in, removing pointless calls to a user token and making everything run a tad faster.

• Improved token validation: The validation for the token inside the Chrome extension has been improved, making connecting way more efficient and reliable.

• Login/registration flow: We have refactored the way users register and login to improve the flow and make it run way faster and reliably.

• General styling: We have improved the general styling across the app for buttons and fields by replacing a library and implementing tail wind.

• Login screen: We've rediesgned the login screen to make it look better and fit more in line with the app.

Bug Fixes 🔴

• Tasks inside Boards: When dragging tasks between columns on boards, it would sometimes make tasks disappear and would need a refresh to show up again, this is now fixed.

• Changing password: Some users were experiencing an issue with changing their password on their user profile, this is now fixed.

• Window crashing: There was an issue that was causing the app to crash when reducing window size on your browser, this has been fixed.

• Share button disabled: There was an issue where the share button was being disabled incorrectly, this has been fixed.

• Workspaces: There were a few small bugs around the app being caused by workspace ID identifiers, this has been fixed.

We have an absolute massive update for you today! We're proud to announce our version 4.0 release, which includes a huge upgrade and tons of bug fixes.

Here's the entire list, for the big inclusions there are dedicated posts above this one you can check out.

New 🟢

• Chrome Extension Version 2: Enhance your team's collaboration by enabling users to leave precise visual feedback directly on live websites with our new Chrome Extension. Instead of viewing the website inside Atarim itself, simply click the extension and it'll display our interface on top of it, enabling collaboration within a few seconds on any website.

• Workflows: Streamline your project management by automating task assignments, tracking progress, and ensuring timely completion with our new workflows feature. Customize workflows to fit your team's needs, integrate with existing tools, and improve overall efficiency.

• Workspaces: You can now create additional workspaces on your Atarim account (only avaliable on the business plan). This empowers you to create completely seperate spaces for you to do your work, this includes: multiple inboxes, white label settings, integration settings, teams, workflows, canned responses and more.

• Workspaces with Chrome Extension & WordPress Plugin: When activating the Chrome extension or the WordPress Plugin on a website, you now have the option to choose which workspace it's added in as a project, giving you ultimate control of where your work goes!

• Two Factor Authentication: You now have the option to enable 2FA on your Atarim account for increased security, this is a simple code that is sent to the email that is on your account.

• Force Two Factor Authentication: Inside settings, you can force 2FA for all team members that are on your account, making it super easy to ensure all of your data is secure regardless of who you've invited (and avoiding the annoying task of ensuring all of your team have it on).

• Instant Task Creation: No waiting around anymore when creating tasks, as soon as you hit the button to create you're ready to create another instantly, significantly increasing your effiency (and your customers') when creating tasks on projects.

• Start Collaborating 8x Faster: We have significantly upgraded the way we are scraping websites. Instead of relying on a third party service, we have developed a custom one which is running on a worker. Making it seperate to our infrastructure, increasing speed by up to 8 times.

• New Designs: We've upgraded the collaboration experience design, as well as the projects screen, giving them better UI and a improvement in the user experience.

• Permanently Delete Projects: You can now completely remove a project from your account as opposed to archiving only. This will remove the project and all tasks associated with it, ensuring you can clean up your account if needed.

• Easy Drag-and-Drop File Uploads: You can now drag-and-drop files to upload them directly on tasks (inside all collaboration experiences) instead of having to use your local file system to select and upload files.

• Bulk File Uploads on Tasks: Save time by uploading multiple files all at once instead of waiting around to attach files individually.

• File As First Comment: Previously you could not upload a file and attach a comment, now you can! Which means you can also upload a file or annotated screenshot as the first comment of tasks when creating them.

• Share From The Projects Screen: You can now share directly from the projects screen by hovering over a card and clicking on the third icon.

Bug Fixes 🟠

• Filters Inside Inbox: There was an issue where filtering the email inbox on the inbox screen was not listing tasks/emails correctly, this is now fixed.

• Styling issues: We've fixed around 30-40 styling issues that we found during sweeps for 4.0, this is something we will continue to improve and work on in proceeding releases.

• Unread Filter: Sorting by unread in the filter inside collaboration (inside the Atarim App) was not filtering correctly, this is now fixed.

• Deleting Pending Invites: Previously, deleting pending invites on the team management screen was not triggering correctly, this is now fixed.

• Time Entries Not Displaying For New Users: New users were not seeing time entries that were being created, this is now fixed.

• Project Stage Email Link: Inside a notification for project stages, there was a link that was missing a "/" causing issues, this is now fixed.

• Annotating Screenshot Responsiveness: When trying to annotate a screenshot on a smaller screens, it was causing issues with window sizes, this has been fixed and made fully responsive.

• White Label Settings: White label settings were not showing correctly sometimes on collaboration inside the Chrome Extension, this is now fixed.

• Bulk Action For Priority Change: When changing multiple tasks priority on the inbox or boards, it was causing an error, this is now fixed.

• WordPress Plugin Security: We've made some security adjusts to the WordPress plugin to ensure it's 100% secure.

• Canned Responses Deletion: If you deleted your final canned response, it would cause an issue, this has been fixed.

• Responsive Mode Chrome Extension: Sometimes in mobile view the bottom bar would not be visible, this has been fixed.

• Emails Breaking Styling: Emails that had a type of formatting were breaking the inbox when being viewed, this has been fixed.

If you look in the top right of your Atarim Dashboard, you'll see we've created a default workspace for you. This new feature empowers you to create completely seperate instances of your Atarim account.

With each workspace, you'll be able to have different email inboxes, projects, white labelling, integrations, workflows, forms...everything! Designed from the ground up for people who are a part of & organizations that operate multiple: brands, departments, teams and clients.

Also, this gets rid of the pesky need for all Atarim accounts to have unique emails, you can

 Checkout your workspace settings here >>  

We’ve shipped improvements across the board – taking the performance of your collaboration experience up more than just a notch. Try 8 notches.

Our scraper is now a complete microservice and custom built, and we've made it fast! It's also using Cloudflare caching, and they have so much of the internet cached, this also gives us more speed.

You can now turn on 2FA for your Atarim account, enabling you to keep all of your data nice and secure. When you turn it on, we'll simply send a code to your email and once entered, you'll be good to go.

You also have the option to force 2FA inside your Atarim settings. This will turn 2FA on for everyone that is part of your account, making it super easy to make all of your data secure.