You now have an even easier way to invite teammates to collaborate on lists: the Quick Invite form.
You’ll find it below your collaborators in any list view. To invite someone new to collaborate on that list, just type in their name or email address and hit enter. Simple.
Enjoy!
The Flow Team
Last week, we introduced automatic task clearing to Flow, eliminating the extra step of having to “sweep” away completed tasks.
Following the change, we received a surprising amount of feedback from users who preferred the old way of manually clearing tasks, some because they liked having that visual record up front, others because they liked the feeling of accomplishment that came with clearing completed tasks.
Whatever the reason, we heard you loud and clear: the automatic clearing of completed tasks is now optional. It’s up to you how Flow handles that final step.
Automatic clearing will still be the default, so if you’d like to return to the old way of doing things, you can enable manual task clearing in the General tab of your Flow preferences. Then when it’s time to clean up a list you’re viewing, just hit “Clear Completed Tasks” in the list actions menu (or use the Option-K keyboard shortcut) and you’ll be all set.
Thanks again to everyone who took the time to provide feedback. We appreciate it!
The Flow Team
Checking off tasks in Flow has always seemed a bit anticlimactic to us: after what should be a triumphant final click, the task just stayed there, cluttering up your list until you tapped the clear button to sweep it away once and for all.
No longer. From now on, tasks in Flow will be automatically cleared the moment you complete them, so your first click will be your last. And if you need to find a completed task after it’s gone, no problem: there’s a new “Show Completed Tasks” link at the bottom of every list.
In the past, if someone made multiple changes to a task, you’d sometimes get more than one notification: one saying they rescheduled it, another saying they invited someone else…you get the idea. They were redundant (and maybe even a little annoying), and so we’ve done away with those, too.
Now, even if someone changes every field in the task form at once, you’ll only get one email with a summary of everything that changed. Simple. Neat. Easy.
As always, we’ve got a lot more coming, so stay tuned!
The Flow team has been hard at work on a new, completely re-imagined Flow iPhone app. The upcoming Flow iPhone 2.0 app has been designed from the ground-up for speed, speed and more speed. The result? Dramatically faster load times in every area, from task creation and editing to comment activity and beyond.
The ‘new task’ form below is the first in a series of teasers we’ll be releasing as we go:
We’re still testing it out internally at this stage, but we were too excited about it not to say anything:)
With Flow celebrating its first birthday last week, we thought it would be a good time to roll out a few new features and updates we’ve been working on…
New Public Search and Contact Requests
The new public search makes it possible to search the Flow userbase for contacts by name, making it much easier to find and add collaborators in Flow. Any contact requests sent this way will require the consent of the individual, of course, and if you’d rather not appear in public search results at all, you can always opt-out simply by toggling the privacy switch in your account preferences any time.
New Comment Form
Attaching files to your comments should be fast and painless, so we’ve gone ahead and added drag ‘n drop functionality to the comment form to take out that extra step. It’ll work with any file type, including video. Just drag, drop, and you’re done.
On top of that, we’ve also streamlined the process for inviting new collaborators and made the comment form expandable, so if you’re that person on the team who likes to leave essay-length comments on tasks (we all have one), you’ll now be able to look over all your brilliant ideas and prized insights before finally hitting “post.”
New Add Contact Modal
It may not sound all that exciting at first, but trust us on this one. With the new contact modal you can now connect to your Facebook and Twitter accounts to find others in your network who also use Flow, and signing-in to Google will let you browse all your contacts for would-be collaborators. In other words, no more jumping back and forth between apps trying to find full names and email addresses. It’ll all just be there.
New List Form
We’ve upgraded the New List form to make organizing tasks in Flow as clear-cut as possible. The new pop-out form is fast, convenient, and simple to use, plus we’ve added the ability to file lists directly into folders so you won’t have to worry about it later on. It’s a small detail, but we’re all about the small details around here. They’re game changers. They make a difference.
New Welcome Modal and Quick Guide
While this won’t have too much of a first-hand impact on users already familiar with Flow, by overhauling our on-boarding we’ve made inviting and integrating new collaborators that much easier. First-time users will now be guided through Flow’s key features step-by-step, so by the time they’re in the app they’ll be ready to get straight to work.
Enjoy!