Changelog

Notification updates

Before this update, notifications were generated on the fly, in your browser by checking all relevant card changes. This approach led to some performance issues for projects with a lot of activity. So we improved it significantly by generating notifications on the server instead. This should speed up a lot of interactions that could potentially generate notifications.

But this update did not only improve performance but came with a lot of new features as well:

• Dismiss all: a.k.a. declaring notification bankruptcy 📉. By holding down the dismiss button in one of the three notification groups (cards you own, cards you’re subscribed to, conversations) you can remove all notification at once.
• Snoozing conversations: Previously this notification wouldn’t show up if some conversation participant still had an open notification for this conversation. Not ideal if one of the participants wouldn’t check (and dismiss) their notifications on a regular basis. Now it’s always shown to all participants after some inactivity on the thread.
• Subscribing to cards: You’re automatically subscribed to a card if you’re the card creator or if you’re mentioned on a card. (Yes, we’ll definitely plan on adding an interface to let people know who is subscribed to a card and allowing them to unsubscribe.)
• Notifications for mentions in cards: This is actually more of a bug-fix. Before, you would only receive a notification for being mentioned on a card if you were observing it (via deck or card subscription). Now you’ll always get a notification if you get mentioned in a card’s content.
• Group notifications by milestone & deck: When multiple cards are moved to a new milestone or deck, it’ll generate a single notification pill instead of one notification pill per card.
• Last participant notification: If everyone left a conversation except you, you’ll now get a notification.

Export cards as csv

Once you start selecting cards, you’ll find a download icon in the right part of the selection bar. Here you may pick the desired fields to export and download a csv file right away!

Time Tracking

We’re super stoked to announce that this release introduces time tracking!

Open up the Mission Control and navigate to Organization Settings > General and look towards the bottom for the relevant settings. Time tracking comes in two flavors: Manual mode and Real-time mode.

Manual mode allows you to enter your time manually via a card’s history panel.

The Real-time mode allow you to manually enter your time as well, but comes with a lot more power: it will be tracking your time whenever you start a card. This basically means, if a card a blue, you’ll be tracking time. To reduce any confusion this also means that a single user can’t have more than a single started card. So you might have to adapt your workflow if you want to activate this feature. But we strongly believe it’s worth it as a blue card will be a strong signal to your team that you are actually currently working on this card.

• Milestones: When displaying the amount of days left, we now use actual working days. They default to Mo-Fr, but can be customized in your organization settings.
• History panel: Changes to your card content now result und much improved diffs in the history panel.
• Drag and drop: When ordering by project tags and drag and dropping a card into a new swimlane, the tag won’t be appended to the card’s content. The project tag will directly be applied instead.
• Performance: Whenever you performed an action, all your and your team mates’ Codecks browser tabs received a message to fetch fresh data at the same time. This meant that the database had to reply to a lot of request simultaneously, leading to a performance bottleneck. This has been changed such that messages to other tabs are now deferred and spread out such that the tab performing the action gets a quick response before other tabs request fresh data.

Bug fixes and small improvements:

• Card editing: clicking - [] checkboxes on cards with card references would open the “Card not saved” dialog. This is now fixed.
• Card editing: The preview missed padding and quotes are no longer squashed in long cards.
• Card content: Firefox users now also enjoy some extra padding at the bottom of a long card.
• Card milestone panel: The panel would offer no milestone to pick from if the card’s milestone was from the previous year.
• Card duplication: When duplicating a card from within the milestone view, the card’s milestone is being copied by default.

This time there’s a lot of Quality of life improvements:

Independent scroll areas

We noticed that long cards and long conversations could lead to frustrations at times. While sometimes less is more, that’s probably not always true for the amount of scrollbars. We tried to live with only one main scrollbar for a long time, but now that we’ve added scrollbars to long cards and the side panel, we’re already asking ourselves how we could have lived without!

Wide mode

We understand Codecks to be more than just a list of tasks. We’re moving towards becoming a great place for your knowledge base and design documents. As a next step, we introduced Wide mode to cards. This will make it much more pleasant to create, edit, and read large amounts of texts. To activate it look out for the ↔️ arrows or hit w on your keyboard.

Strong Customer Authentication for Payments

To comply with new EU regulations starting on September 14, 2019, we reworked our payment systems. To ensure that all future payments will be accepted by your bank, we removed payment information stored on Stripe and their references on our side. This means that you need to enter your credit card details again, should you apply a new top-up or start a subscription. Existing subscriptions should not be affected.

Your balance and subscription costs are now always shown as net amounts without VAT

• Content Editor: Fixed infinite-loop issue when opening suggestions panel via @, # or $, sometimes leading browsers to crash 💥.
• GitHub Integration: Some users weren’t able to set up the GitHub integration, this should now be fixed.

• Deck Selector: Decks are now grouped by project.
• Card Content: Card references within a card are proper links now, so you can e.g. cmd-click them to open cards in a new browser tab.
• Card Content Editor: When opening the content editor, it’s always auto-focussed. No matter if it contains content or not.
• Conversations: Adding back an opted-out person by mentioning them works again.
• Discord Integration: Fix double posting of leaderboards under some circumstances.
• [BETA] Card Creation: Allows you to pick a deck when creating a card in your hand or a milestone. When creating a card in a deck, you may choose whether to also add this card to your hand. Currently only for beta-testers. Should be out for everyone in a few days.

Archived Card Improvements

• For milestone reviews it’s often useful to also display archived cards. For easy access, we moved the “include archived cards” button from the search dropdown to the left of the search field. For consistency’s sake we also applied it to the deck inspector.
• The setting for the “include archived cards” button within the Milestones section is remembered as reviews tend to involve jumping around decks and other milestones and it seems preferable to keep the option active
• Archived cards are displayed differently, revealing their state a card was in, once it has been archived. This makes it a lot easier to differentiate between “done” archived cards and “not done” archived cards.