We're often adjusting what's next based on the conversations we have with you - reach out or comment in the features below if you've got ideas 🤗
What the icons mean:
👨💻 - In development this week
🔬 - We're testing this
👀 - Working on this next
💭 - Maybe later
Summary
End of September, we launched a big redesign, moving search and stacks to panels and adjusting the moments interface to a soothing orb - we hope you like it!
Next Up
Thoughts
- Fix: click on stack name in input-drop
- Create stack from add-to-stack-input on thought 👀
- Color for certain tags 👀
- Simple additional source possibility (tab) 👀
- A faster, smoother way to archive/copy/edit for non-shortcut-users (hover-buttons?) 👀
- Metadata: created, last edited, maybe source (e.g. readwise) 👀
- URL titles instead of targets (with CF) 💭
- Possibility to add thoughts in the context of others. (Old: Shift+N for duplicate) 💭
- External-search-button for search content? (DDGo?) 💭
- Drag & drop for adding urls to focused/certain node 💭
- Comments on thoughts 💭
Search
- Search for Chinese, intercom fb ✔️
- Search for tags 👀
- Different sorting in search overlay 💭
- Code-change: Highlighting from within the text component?
- Add new thought in search list (with search input, shadow thought if no results) 💭
- Arrow controls 💭
Account and Settings
- Readwise-token-info & message ✔️
- Better links to stripe, sort out auth overlay
- Tag renaming 👀
- Password creation / reset 👀
Moments
- Cut readwise author tags at certain length✔️
- Shortcut 'M' for select moments ✔️
- Readwise moment titles ✔️
- Check processing logic in inbox ⚠️✔️
- "Send thoughts to the future" -> Pop up in moment
- Fade Moment-controls on thought-edit / lift thoughts to fixed on edit?
- Import-Moments 'create' thoughts during viewing them, not before
Swarm
- Swarm positioning glitches (especially overlap on y-axis) 👀
- Better related-thoughts-explanation, maybe by fading non-layout-relevant-tags 👀
- When creating a new thought, just push the existing ones to the side a little bit, don't hide all 💭
- Visual cues about state like stray spheres 💭
Main Interface
- Block on iPad 👀
- Minimalist icons 👀
- Custom background color 👀
- Cuter tooltips, incl. shortcut & see more 👀
- Hover-Info in footer 👀
- Offer shortcut overview on Cmd/Ctrl + delay 💭
- Switch to input/search/moment on small width in desktop? 💭
API & Export
- Update tag caches, timestamp in log ✔️
- Reactivate shortcut, change to new API 👀
- Code: CF timing & timeout tests 👀
- Add stacks to JSON export 👀
- Quotes around thoughts that have been clipped 👀
- NLP fair usage policy 💭
- Logger for FE-Bugs 💭
- Email input (from login mail to input@napkin.one, pubsub) 💭
- NLP logs for loading-models 💭
- NLP that refines magic tags on thoughts in relation to swarm 💭
- API for moments 💭
Stacks
We know that the outlining functions aren't perfect yet. We will either allow to sync stacks' thoughts with another pure outlining tool or improve the outliner incl. keyboard shortcuts, word counts, templates, etc.
- Keyboard navigation, e.g. tabs to select 💭
- Thought-dropzone to create new stack 💭
- Remove 'notes' with yellow sticky tape in stacks, only have thoughts 💭
- When editing a note in a stack, being able to move to the next note by pressing Tab and previous note by pressing Tab Shift, instead of having to use the mouse to click on the note you want to edit. And when there’s no note next to the current note, pressing Tab will create a new note. This way, you don’t have to use the mouse to click that plus button to create a new note. (Shu) 💭
- (Note: Drag and drop only snuggles the thoughts next to it a little to the side.)
New Users
- Demo account to play around 💭
- Small tour for core flow 💭
Code-Quality
Done
- Style: a nice loading overlay when getting your thoughts ✔️
- Suggested moment in main interface (e.g. inbox, when something is in there) ✔️
- Better moment explanation in UI: it’s focusing the center, showing related thoughts ✔️
- Fix Chrome extension scroll-to-function ✔️
- Three thoughts for new thinkers ✔️
- Synced thought-tabs in main interface, save state ✔️
- Don't show input when opening actions-tab ✔️
- Tune on personalized NLP learning speed with new tags ✔️
- Thoughts that vertically expand further ✔️
- Create a thought, trigger auto-tagging ✔️
- New accounts should see a helpful hint -> tour and empty thought okay for now ✔️
- In thought edit mode, show the right content in tag input (stacks or thoughts) and highlight more clearly ✔️
- More consistent magic-tag-implementation with magic-wand-button in tag-area ✔️
- Tab content indicator (e.g.: do I have a URL here?) ✔️
- Better payment integration ✔️
- BIG REDESIGN ✔️
- Personalized AI ✔️
- Refined notes & tags ✔️
- See all thoughts of a certain tag in a tag moment, see all disconnected notes in another moment ✔️
- See stacks on thoughts, add them with the keyboard ✔️
- Easy-to-find shortcuts explanation ✔
- Import-service for believer-plans (if you're interested but not on a believer plan reach out, we'll try to make it happen) ✔
- Preparations for personalized topic suggestion AI (1/2) ✔
- Real-time-tagging for thoughts sent into Napkin (feels magic 🪄😄) ✔
- Further Moment improvements ✔
- More shortcuts ✔
- Moment improvements, reflection moment -> See here, please comment ✔
- Improvements on thought card design ✔
- Moment to reflect thoughts with a certain tag -> Will be started from tags in the big redesign ✔
- Thought redesign to have no scroll-bars on thoughts ✔
- Bigger thought overlay to add notes, also to break down longer notes into thoughts ✔
- More intuitive / robust navigation & search ✔
- Saved state for startup, back-and-forth ✔
- New login ✔
- https://community.napkin.one/post/1373546555 to send text to Napkin (✔):
- Chrome-Extension to clip text from websites (✔): it's in review at Google, if you want to use it already please reach out :)
- Easier account creation for new users ✔
- Faster tagging and suggestion of new tags ✔
- Stack archive ✔️
- Many improvements on stack section ✔️
- Export thoughts (you can already export all thoughts as txt in the account area, we'll add json and tsv) ✔️
- Redesign: readjust the whole layout, colors, sizes, responsiveness ✔️
- Work on two big surprises for the next weeks ✔️
- Many fixes in new menu, centering and navigation ✔️
- Search logic adjustments and better tag search ✔️
- Search highlighting ✔️
- Autotagging, scanning own tags for new thoughts ✔️
- New menu, including a swarm-list-tags-switch and filtering and pinned stack-sidebar ✔️
- Key combination to archive centered thought ✔️
- Stack sections & notes ✔️
- Small tour for new users ✔️
- (Small stuff: Performance optimization init thoughts in-position ✔️; transition on transparency ✔️; no 'jump' after positioning ✔️)
- Stacks management: create, sort ✔️
- Auto-tagging first steps ✔️
- Thought-to-thought-links ✔
- Swarm improvements: 4 times faster layouts ✔
- Key combinations for edit thought in center ✔
- Open/copy source-url on second click ✔
- Tab-to-tags on Firefox ✔
- F => Search ✔
- Better stack open and close, also consider 'S' ✔
- Info on which stack is currently open ✔
- Tooltips in Stacks, Sections, Stack-Shelf ✔
- Clear search (Esc, button) [Info J. Caplan] ✔
- New thoughts in stack appear over first section ✔
- Stack drop outside drop-zones moves item to start/end of section ✔
- Easy-to-find button to create new stack ✔
- Correct thought-counts on stacks ✔
- Reload background thoughts on create/edit in center ✔
- Lazy load in list view, show more thoughts in list view ✔
- Sort list by seen-date (fallback create-date) ✔
- Backend: mark tags as global to connect public Napkins in future and suggest them in autotagging ✔
- Fix slow tag selection in search ✔
- Only show best fits in tag search ✔
- Only show stack archive when stacks have been archived ✔
- Update Auth-Overlay ✔
... and most things happened before we even started here ;