- Comments on the board:
- Press ⇧C, or use the speech bubble in the toolbar, then click anywhere to pin a comment there. A comment pinned to a sticky note, card or any other object moves with it.
- Each pin is a thread: reply, edit or delete your own comments, and resolve the thread when it's done. Resolving takes the pin off the board.
- The comments button in the board bar opens a list of every thread, open or resolved, and counts the ones you haven't read.
- A card's editor lists the threads on that card, and its Comment button starts one.
- Copy link in a thread's menu gives a link that opens the board at that thread.
- Who can comment: anyone who can open a board, including people who can only view it on a Free workspace. Visitors to a published board don't see comments.
- @mentions: type @ in a comment to pick someone who can see the board.
- Emails:
- You're emailed when someone mentions you, replies in a thread you've commented in, or assigns you a card or a checklist item.
- They're collected for about 10 minutes and sent as one email, without anything you've already seen.
- Turn each kind off on your account page, or unsubscribe from any of these emails in one click.
- What's new: a page listing every release, at
/changelog. The start page, the blog and your account page link to it.
What’s new
Everything that’s changed in Atomic Lab, newest first.
Comments
Fixes
- Archived cards that escaped their column go back into its archive, or are restored if there's no column above them. They're fixed when an editor opens the board.
- The cause was a tab left open across a deploy. Its older code laid archived cards out as ordinary cards, and the column then dropped them.
- Archived cards now stay in their column wherever they're stored.
- Tabs left open across a deploy now reload before they can join a board, rather than editing with old code. They show "Atomic Lab has been updated. Reloading…".
Arranging
- Align and distribute:
- Line up two or more objects by their left edges, centres or right edges, or their tops, middles or bottoms. Space three or more evenly, across or down.
- Use the selection toolbar, or Alt+A, H, D, W, V or S, and Alt+Shift+H or V.
- A group moves as one, a frame moves with what's in it, and cards in a Kanban column stay put.
- Groups:
- ⌘G groups the selection and ⇧⌘G takes groups apart.
- Clicking any member selects the whole group, and a second click selects just that member.
- Copies of a group make a group of their own.
- Lock:
- ⇧⌘L, the toolbar or the right-click menu locks objects so they can't be selected, moved, edited or erased. Clicks and the marquee pass through them, and a padlock shows on hover.
- To unlock, right-click the object and choose Unlock. The empty board's menu has Unlock everything.
- Find on a board:
- ⌘F searches the board's text: sticky notes, shapes, text, card titles, notes and checklists, frame titles and audio titles. Case and accents don't matter.
- Enter and Shift+Enter move between matches, and the view follows. Esc closes the bar and selects the match shown.
- It works on view-only and published boards too.
Archiving cards
- Archive cards in Kanban columns.
- Right-click a card and choose Archive, or Archive 3 cards with several selected. The card editor has an Archive button, and a column's menu has Archive all cards.
- Archived cards collapse into an "Archived · 12" row at the foot of their column. Click it to show them as strips (colour, title, checklist progress), newest first, or to hide them again. Everyone on the board sees the same.
- Restore (in the right-click menu or the card editor) puts a card back at the end of its column. A column's count is of its live cards.
- Deleting a column deletes its archived cards; its other cards stay. "Stop stacking" restores the archive first.
Fixes
- Older browsers:
- Safari before 16.4 and older Chrome-based browsers drew boards with errors. Atomic Lab now works on Safari and iOS 15.4+, Chrome and Edge 99+, and Firefox 102+.
- Anything older is asked to update, rather than getting a board that half works.
- Error reports now record only errors from Atomic Lab's own code. Scripts that Facebook's and Instagram's in-app browsers add to pages were showing up as ours.
- Blog: the new post's image is a smaller JPEG.
A new blog post
- Blog: new post, "From blank board to a task list in a few minutes".
Audio and a new start page
- Audio clips on the board:
- Record from the microphone (up to 10 minutes), or add MP3, M4A, WAV, OGG, WebM or FLAC files.
- Each clip is a small player you can move, resize and rename. Anyone who can see the board can play it, including visitors to a published board.
- Right-click a clip to download it.
- Storage: a Free workspace's boards can hold 1 GB of images and audio. Team has no limit. The Plan page shows what's used.
- A new start page that sells the product: a screenshot of a real board, feature rows, the templates, pricing for Free and Team, answers to common questions, and a Pricing link in the header and on the blog.
- New images and audio clips are selected as soon as they're placed, so you can move them while they upload.
The blog
- A blog at
/blog, with an RSS feed and link previews. - Five posts: Kanban columns, publishing to the web, speed, privacy and pricing, and boards kept in the browser.
Ready to launch, Kanban columns, publish to web
- Ready to launch:
- Privacy and terms pages.
- Manage your own account: change your name or email, sign out other devices, download your data, delete your account.
- Rename and delete workspaces, and a trash that keeps deleted boards for 30 days.
- Links to Atomic Lab show a preview when shared.
- Kanban columns:
- Cards stack and snap into place in a column, which opens a gap as you drag a card over it. Columns in a row share one height.
- "+ Add card", Alt+arrow keys to move cards, "Add column to the right", and "Stack cards as a column" for existing frames.
- Publish to web:
- A read-only, live link anyone can open without an account. Search engines are kept out unless you allow them.
- Board thumbnails in link previews and board lists.
- Visitors can report a board, and admins can unpublish it.
Clean-up of unused Free workspaces
- Automatic clean-up: Free workspaces nobody has used for a year are deleted, after warning emails 30 and 7 days before.
Open sign-up, plans and billing
- Sign-up and the start page:
- Anyone can sign up with a magic link and gets their own Free workspace.
- A start page for visitors.
- Boards that work without an account, kept in the browser and moved into your account when you sign up.
- Free and Team plans:
- On Free, one person edits.
- Inviting a teammate starts a 14-day Team trial.
- Stripe Checkout and the billing portal.
- A lapsed Team goes read-only, without deleting anything.
- Account and billing emails.
Cards
- Cards with a title, note, checklist, assignees and a due date. Two people ticking different items at once both keep their ticks.
- The Kanban template is rebuilt on cards.
- A right-click menu on the board: clipboard, duplicate, arrange, open or edit, export and delete.
Multiplayer and more to draw with
- Real-time multiplayer:
- Everyone's edits, cursors and selections appear live, and changes made offline are sent on reconnect.
- People are disconnected when their access is removed.
- More content: connectors, a pen and eraser, images, and frames.
- Polish:
- Keyboard shortcuts with a help overlay, and a minimap.
- PNG and SVG export, copy and paste between boards, and board templates.
- Version history.
- The Atomic Lab name and logo.
Text, sign-in and saved boards
- Text: rich text editing (bold, italic, links, bullet lists) on sticky notes, shapes and text. Text is cached so large boards stay smooth.
- Sign-in by emailed magic link.
- Workspaces: members, invites, and boards that are saved.
The engine
- An infinite canvas that pans and zooms smoothly, built for 10,000 objects on a board.
- Drawing: sticky notes and shapes; selecting, moving, resizing and rotating; snapping.
- Undo and redo.