Changelog

New updates and improvements to Ideanote.

Information and Stack View, Regional Hosting, Custom Fonts, Comment Translations, Automatic Translation Variables, Splunk Integration

  • Added Information Views: Ideanote now supports views where you can type anything via our brand-new rich text editor that is enriched by AI and supports both dynamic bindings and attachments.
  • Added Stack Views: Ideanote now supports views where ideas are placed in a stack of cards that can be swiped to the sides to focus on a single idea at a time, with its action cards expanded.
  • Added regional hosting support. Regional Preferences inside Security Settings has been changed to show the current workspace region, and a way for users to request migrating to another region.
  • Added support for custom fonts: You can now upload your own fonts if the existing catalog of fonts is not sufficient. In case you wondered how Impact might look on your workspace, now is your chance.
  • Added new Workspace settings menu: Default user settings. Here you can control the default settings for new users signing up to the workspace, such as their language, date formatting, notification, and color mode preferences. Users can still adjust these changes individually after their user is created.
  • Added Greek language support.
  • Added support for Custom Translation Variables to fill out all remaining languages with AI-based auto translation if AI is enabled on your Workspace.
  • Added support in Theme settings for changing the color scheme depending on whether Ideanote is shown in Light, Dark, or High Contrast mode. This is especially helpful if your chosen colors are too dark in dark mode but look great in light mode, and vice versa.
  • Added a new integration for Splunk: You can now send ideanote activities/events to your Splunk instance in near real-time. The same functionality is also exposed via automations.
  • Added ability to duplicate Views via a new Duplicate option in their settings menu.
  • Added a tooltip when assigning co-owners to ideas.
  • Added new Show gridlines option to list charts, which when enabled shows lines under each item to better visually connect the data to the items. The Auto option (default) only shows the line when the chart is wide.
  • Added support for using custom images as phase icons.
  • Added Show Translation functionality support in comments. This will take effect for new comments submitted after this release.
  • Added support for dynamic bindings and custom translations in Criteria and additional places inside idea fields.
  • Improved styling of the Vote view page on mobile devices.
  • Improved the Manage View Access dropdown UX and reliability.
  • Improved Assignment action cards to allow selecting multiple users before auto-closing and has a submit button.
  • Improved backend performance of several database queries.
  • Improved the quality of AI translations, which now supports regional hosting.
  • Improved the quality of AI suggestions for ideas, which is now more reliable, especially for complex forms, and uses a newer model.
  • Improved the quality of AI suggestions for idea collections, and uses a newer model.
  • Improved the quality of AI Image generation, which now supports regional hosting. Expect a small reduction in speed as a tradeoff.
  • Improved the wording in Notification preferences with better descriptions of what each checkbox represents.
  • Improved the visual distinction of archived idea cards.
  • Improved stats cards to display the owner and creation date of idea collections.
  • Improved select from list filters to show the IDs of ideas as labels to better help distinguish them, especially when they are untitled.
  • Improved the styling of list charts in their table/horizontal layout, which now shows more even spacing between labels and correct right alignment.
  • Improved validation for uploads of theme.json files.
  • Improved Share dialog to show more stats, including the number of times a shareable link has been used by a user to gain access to it.
  • Updated default charts for new Analytics views in Idea Collections by removing Ideas by Team.
  • Updated security settings by removing a redundant toggle.
  • Fixed an issue where touch devices such as mobile phones could not scroll through some lists, such as workspace settings.
  • Fixed several dropdown and scrolling issues on iOS/Mobile Safari.
  • Fixed an issue where updating parts of the workspace theme would sometimes not work or end up resetting quickly after the change.
  • Fixed an issue where Map Charts could sometimes not render.
  • Fixed an issue where Map Charts would display data for Australia twice.
  • Fixed an issue where setting up conditions on phases on local forms could display phases across all idea collections in the workspace.
  • Fixed an issue where a warning could appear about losing your draft when submitting an idea or a form entry, even though their contents were empty.
  • Fixed an issue where filters, conditions, charts, and automation triggers could continue to reference form fields that had since been deleted.
  • Fixed an issue where deleting a comment or removing a like would not disappear from the list of idea activities before the user refreshed the page.
  • Fixed an issue where drafts for form entries would never load.
  • Fixed an issue where select from list filters/conditions would not work when the operator was is not equal to.
  • Fixed an issue where toggling required or show title on idea fields could remove their conditions or other parts of their configuration.
  • Fixed an issue where relative time/timeago on idea cards could sometimes be off by one day.
  • Fixed an issue where charts based on devices could be very slow.
  • Fixed an issue where some notifications would display confusing code bindings.
  • Fixed an issue where a WebSocket could sometimes have trouble reconnecting correctly.
  • Fixed an issue where empty activities could appear in the Feed.
  • Fixed an issue where statuses could not be saved if only their description had changed.
  • Fixed an issue where ideas could not be submitted with CTRL/CMD + ENTER.
  • Fixed an issue where the feed would list content tied to idea collection templates.
  • Fixed an issue where the feed would reference idea collections when referencing an idea.
  • Fixed an issue where rich content would appear incorrectly when inline editing an idea collection.
  • Fixed an issue on iOS where dropdown could be placed underneath other content.
  • Fixed an issue where cloned idea fields would not appear until refreshing the page.
  • Fixed an issue where attempting to expand a form entry via idea cards would close the dropdown.
  • Fixed an issue where search text inside some dropdown menus could be invisible.

Improvements for Automations and Notifications

  • Special characters are now rendered correctly in emails
  • In automations, it is now possible to send emails to all owners of an idea
  • Emails activities are now sent to sent to all owners of an idea
  • Various bugs fixes and performance improvements

Performance and Design Tweaks

  • Stability and performance improvements
  • Fixed an issue where custom phase icons would not show correctly when sharing an idea collection
  • The phase actions are now visible when having a very dark theme color while having the UI in darkmode
  • Fixed an issue where in some cases the co-owner avatars would not show up
  • We have increased the amount of fair AI usage
  • Various bug fixes

Regional Email IP and Layout Improvements

  • New Regional Preferences security settings option where you can choose the region through which we send emails with Sendgrid. You can choose between the United States, the European Union, or auto.
  • You can now manually trigger the installation of the Ideanote PWA from Account settings when applicable.
  • Added placeholder texts to several search fields
  • The progress bar inside idea widgets will now be full in the last step of the form.
  • Fixed an issue where using the arrow keys with dropdown fields didn't work.
  • Fixed an issue where long idea collection questions could cause layout issues on cards.
  • Fixed an issue where errors produced during bulk actions would not appear and would fail silently.
  • Fixed an issue when sharing an idea collection where the notify counter could say 0.
  • Resolved a potential XSS vulnerability
  • Minor bug fixes and improvements.

Clear Drafts and Updated Idea Card Design

  • Added a Clear Draft button inside the Add Idea dialog when there is a pre-existing draft
  • Added a reference to the title of the idea collection inside the Add Idea dialog.
  • Added the ability for users without editing access to an idea collection to view the dropdown of Phase progress of an idea
  • Added missing padding to some scrollable dialogs
  • Added a missing toggle inside layout settings.
  • Added an info tooltip next to rating criteria when seeing the rating results for an idea where the details of the criteria can be read
  • Improved the text of the Turn into Template button
  • Aligned how unnamed sections are displayed
  • Updated the default space cover images
  • More idea collections are loaded by default on the home page
  • Fixed an issue where dropdown would stay open after selecting an option
  • Fixed an option where clicking an @-mention was not working
  • Fixed an issue where the list of liked ideas on the profile page would load endlessly
  • Minor UI improvements

Visible Deadlines and Goals and Improved Export

  • Added Idea Collection deadlines and goals visible on idea collection cards.
  • Added new columns to Excel exports: RATINGS MARKDOWN and FORM ENTRIES MARKDOWN.
  • Added export progress toasts that persist across page refreshes.
  • Ensured that selected List view columns are exported in Excel exports.
  • Added better attachment filenames in Excel exports.
  • Added link to help article for SendGrid token setup on a Workspace.
  • Added warning dialog when closing with unsaved changes.
  • Added suggestions that appear immediately in Share dialog.
  • Added compact filter toolbar in Inbox views.
  • Added ability for admins to update workspace cover image from Home.
  • Added minor UI improvements
  • Added a toast message that appears when idea collection access is changed
  • Changed idea collection template preview to be larger.
  • Changed UX of target filter in automation actions.
  • Changed UI for adding/editing criteria.
  • Changed sorting, chart, and plot dimensions to highlight active selections.
  • Changed Notify counter in Share dialog to hide when 0.
  • Updated some translation strings
  • Fixed conditions on form fields in Expand phases.
  • Fixed custom filters in idea collections not showing as active.
  • Fixed dropdown not closing when clicked outside in idea collection access.
  • Fixed unnecessary idea creation failures with link preview data.
  • Fixed 1-click Microsoft login provider issues.
  • Fixed long usernames overflowing in toolbar.
  • Fixed scroll gradient overflowing dropdown menus.
  • Fixed creation of empty statuses.
  • Fixed user rows not removable when inviting.
  • Fixed editing issues in idea collection templates.
  • Fixed view layout editing issues in idea collections.
  • Fixed multi-line text placeholder alignment.
  • Fixed idea collection deletion not syncing in real-time.
  • Fixed export job dismissal not terminating tasks.
  • Fixed checkbox styling alignment.
  • Fixed duplicated forms to scroll directly to them.
  • Fixed uploaded image filenames visible on hover.

Idea Co-Owners

UI card with handwritten 'Co-Owners' pointing to Pauline and Clara for 'The Infinity Gauntlet' project.

Let multiple people edit and own an idea together. Developing an idea can now happen together!

My Ideas, Smart Titles, Improved Sharing and UI

  • Added a new My Ideas filter inside idea collections
  • Added a new Smart Title layout option for views that present ideas.
  • Added a scroll gradient to many scrollable lists to indicate to the user that more content is available after scrolling to it.
  • Added some missing translations
  • Added a new in-app prompt for installing the Ideanote PWA.
  • Added a loading animation when a new phase is created via idea collection settings
  • Average Rating Filters can now also be used outside of idea collections, such as in workspace automations or the global ideas page.
  • Improved the placeholder text when creating or editing idea fields.
  • Improved the behavior of collapsable tab menus that could briefly render incorrectly before collapsing into a collapsed presentation. For example, the list of views inside an idea collection
  • Made it easier and more accessible to see the currently selected idea in Inbox views. It now also supports keyboard navigation with the arrow keys.
  • Made it easier to see what feature(s) a workspace might be exceeding
  • Very long selected sorting options will now be truncated.
  • Idea values for dropdown fields will now appear on idea cards as chips
  • Improved how multiple choice values such as checkmark fields would be rendered when used inside dynamic bindings
  • Fixed an issue where inviting users or teams to an idea collection would sometimes not work
  • Fixed an issue where keyboard navigation with the arrow keys didn’t work when looking on the attachments for an idea
  • Fixed an issue where untoggling all activities inside audit logs could still show some activities.
  • Fixed an issue where the words [object Object] could appear inside the UI
  • Fixed an issue where empty notifications would sometimes appear
  • Fixed an issue where the Notify counter when sharing an idea collection would sometimes show the wrong count, depending on the workspace preferences. It now also shows a loading spinner while it is being calculated
  • Fixed an issue where charts focused on # of Sessions or Session Duration would produce incorrect data
  • Fixed an issue where ideas being created from a template could have their contents duplicated after cloning.
  • Fixed an issue where dropdown would sometimes jump around when trigged when the ‘reduced motion’ accessibility setting was active
  • Fixed an issue where the view access dropdown menu would close when the user clicked anywhere in it.
  • Fixed some occurrences of overlapping buttons depending on the available screen width
  • Fixed an issue where hovering over the icon for saving an edited view didn’t work when the list of views for an idea collection was in its collapsed presentation

Share Dialog Improvements

  • Made the usage of icons for phases more consistent
  • Fixed an issue where an icon would not appear for a phase inside the Share dialog.
  • Adjusted the size of the sidebar onboarding tips.
  • Added spam detection to emails sent via Ideanote to protect our domain reputation.

Automations for Comments and Improved Charts

  • Added an option to enforce vertical or horizontal layout of charts
  • Added the ability to bind to parent comments inside dynamic bindings in automations
  • Added template activities for the audit log
  • Improved the layout of Idea cards in Trends
  • Tile widgets have been renamed to 'Inline'
  • Minor bug fixes and improvements

Updated Share Dialog UI and New Pricing Plans

  • Streamlined our billing as well as new pricing plans for increased customer flexibility and self-service
  • New share dialog design that improves on the layout and adds new functionality, such as custom invitations
  • New design for the help launcher
  • Create activities are now preserved after deletion, and more metadata is associated with them, to improve the audit log
  • Improved the wording of data retention settings
  • Fixed an issue where a user could receive an empty rank
  • Fixed an issue where some filters could crash analytics charts
  • Fixed an issue where setting up certain filters could crash column views

Notifications, Polish and Help Chat

  • Ideanote now supports Polish language
  • The Notification panel has gotten a complete overhaul
  • New Vote view for idea collections: a view focused on liking ideas.
  • Optimised onboarding experience with helpful guides in the sidebar
  • You can now opt in to displaying Idea IDs directly on the cards of ideas inside a view in its layout settings
  • You can now initiate live chat with Ideanote support via the help launcher
  • Moved the ‘Allow remote customer support’ toggle from security settings into the help launcher
  • Long form entries will now be collapsed inside activity feeds
  • Fixed an issue where the load more button on the home page said teams instead of sections.
  • Fixed an issue where our NPS survey could display on top of dialogs.
  • Aligned the styling of min-/max indicators in create/update idea automation actions