Today we're releasing two big features to support complex workflows: subtasks and dependencies. Plus: a major UI redesign (especially nice in our desktop app.)

Keep track of blockers with "Dependencies"

Open any task's details sidebar and you'll find a new "Depends on" section. Add a dependency to say "this task can't be done until that one is finished."

The blocked task gets a small badge in list and board view that you can hover to see what the blockers are, and their status.

Any task in your workspace can be a blocker of a task, including tasks from other teams.

Avoid accidental completion of blocked tasks

If someone in the team tries to complete a task with pending dependencies, Plot will ask for confirmation.

You get a dialog with three options:

• Remove the blockers and complete: unlink any pending dependency to unblock the task and mark it as complete
• Ignore the blockers and complete anyway: leave the dependencies in place, but complete the task.
• Mark the task and all its blockers as complete in one go

Get notified when you're unblocked

Whenever your task becomes unblocked (the moment all blocking tasks are marked as done), you get a notification. No more checking back manually. Plot tells you when your task is ready to work on.

Break large tasks into subtasks

Some tasks are not large enough to be a full project, but require some slicing and dicing to get done right. Now, you can track it all in one place with subtasks.

Hit "Add subtask" in the task detail view and start breaking work into smaller, checkable pieces. Each subtask is a full task with its own status, assignee, and labels, just nested inside a parent.

Subtasks in list view

Parent tasks get a collapsible chevron in list view. Expand it to see all the subtasks indented underneath, collapse it to keep things clean. A progress count (like "2/5") shows where things stand.

Drag and drop

Reorder subtasks by dragging them within the list. Drag a regular task onto another task to turn it into a subtask. Drag a subtask back out to make it standalone again. You can also press Tab to indent a task under the one above it, and Shift+Tab to outdent.

Convert from the menu

Use "Make subtask of…" from the task menu, from the sidebar or from the command menu (cmd+k) to pick a parent. If the parent lives on a different team or project, Plot asks you to confirm the change before moving anything.

Repeating tasks clone their subtasks

If you've set up a recurring task with subtasks, each new recurrence gets a fresh copy of the full breakdown with statuses reset, ready to go again.

UI Redesign

The app's UI got a glow up in this release as well. You can see how it looks across all previews. It looks especially good in our desktop app. You can download it here.

Some tasks just come back around. Weekly check-ins, monthly reports, the thing you always need to do after a sprint wraps up. Until now you had to remember to recreate those yourself, which kind of defeats the purpose of a project management platform.

So we built recurring tasks.

Set any task to repeat

Open a task's menu or the details sidebar and choose Repeat.

You can pick a regular schedule (every N days, weekly, monthly, yearly) or tell it to repeat after the task is marked as done, which is great for workflows where the next one shouldn't start until the current one is finished.

Each recurrence creates a fresh task

When the schedule fires, Plot clones the original into a brand new task with the same title, description, project, assignees, labels, and priority. If the previous instance was completed, the new one starts as "To do" so your board stays clean.

Auto due dates

Just like task and project templates, repeating tasks can automatically calculate due dates for you. Turn on the "Auto due date" toggle and set whatever offset makes sense for your workflow, like "3 days after creation."

Pause or stop whenever you need to

If you want to skip a few cycles, you can pause the repeat and resume it later without losing your configuration. And if the habit has run its course, you can stop it entirely.

@ mentions for tasks, projects, and docs

One tiny but mighty quality of life update: You can now mention any task, project, or document inside a description or post.

Type @ and start typing to search your workspace, and use the arrow keys + enter to pick what you want to reference from the popover menu. Plot will insert a clickable link so everyone can jump straight to the source.

No big new features this time. Instead, we rebuilt our infrastructure from the ground up. The result? Plot is now at least 10x faster.

Views load instantly, switching between projects feels immediate, tasks open in a snap.

Because here is the thing, productivity apps shouldn't keep you waiting.

Skeletons, loading spinners on everything you click… all of that takes you out of flow.

That's why we invested all of January in making sure Plot responds as fast as you can click.

It's one of those changes you only notice when you go back to slower tools.

One more thing

We did sneak in one small addition: you can now navigate between tasks from the details page. Use the up/down arrows to move through tasks in the same order as your list.

You can see it in action in the video above.

We'll be back with new features soon. For now, enjoy the speed!

Collections are shared folders that group related projects across your workspace.

They let you:

• See all related projects in one place, even if they belong to different teams.
• Check overall progress and status at a glance, then open individual projects when needed.
• Keep a single shared document with key information that everyone on the team can reference.

Collections are accessible from the "Collections" page, but also on your team's projects table, and on individual tasks.

Some interesting use cases:

Agencies and service businesses

Group projects by client. Store client details, onboarding info, links, and notes in one place while tracking delivery across all related projects.

Product and ecommerce teams

Use a collection for a company-wide goal, such as an OKR or a major launch. Plan the work and track execution across all projects tied to that goal.

Events and campaign teams

Group everything needed to deliver an event or campaign, such as venue planning, marketing, logistics, and follow-up work. Keep budgets, vendor contacts, and timelines in one central document while tracking progress toward launch day.

New properties panel for tasks and projects

The new properties panel reduce the cognitive load of the properties, and helps you keep the focus on your work, even with the panel open.

New navigation for projects

Quickly change between the project overview and its tasks with a toggle that stays visible under the page title.

"Created at" property for tasks

You can now display when a task was created and on hover, see who created it. This is useful to keep track of stale tasks, and makes it easier to know who added what to the plate.

You can turn this on and off on each view from your view settings.

Improvements and bug fixes

• See the full task ID before its name on mixed team views (like my tasks, or projects). Click the ID to move the task to another team or copy the ID to clipboard.
• Adds remove from favorites action to favorited elements in sidebar
• Redesign the top bar actions for projects views and task details view, removing the dots menu and moving the position of the favorite action to achieve a more minimal UI
• Added the new page title design to all pages in Plot
• Fixed login issues when switching accounts or after logout
• Fixed redirect issues when trial expired

This is the largest release we've had in Plot for a while: A brand new website, a new task list design, more controls to make your views more minimal, and a new founding team plan with a lot of perks (including a massive discount and direct access to me for support).

There's a lot of ground to cover today so let's dive right in.

Task List V2

Ever since I started Plot, my main goal has been to reduce the overwhelm while still being able to keep track of the stuff to be done.

The problem is that if you go too far in removing information, then the list is not really useful for team work. But if you add too much, it gets crowded very fast and makes you hate your life.

And so, the first version of the task list got us close to that sweet spot.

But had a few flaws: it was too dense. The controls were too hidden. And when you had a long list of tasks (like we all do, after a while) it became hard to digest. It felt a little too much like a spreadsheet.

So I went back to the drawing board.

How can I make the list feel like "just a list", but make it more calm? More manageable? Easier to understand at a glance?

The result is Tasks List v2:

Here's a designerd breakdown if you care about that sort of thing:

And the tasks capture experience is still unmatched. It feels like you're just jotting down a regular list in your favorite notes app (cough... Apple Notes... cough.)

It stays nice, clean and manageable while you're planning, and only adds buttons and controls when you actually need them. You can try it right now in your Plot account.

Property visibility controls

After we had this new beautiful list, I wanted to go farther. I wanted to make it so that if some property in a task was not relevant for you specifically, yes you who are reading this, you could hide it altogether.

So let's say your coworker Mark really likes adding tags to all tasks to keep things tidy.

But tags only give you anxiety and visual clutter. Well... now you can make the tags invisible only for you, without messing with Marks workflow over there.

Same with all the other controls and information we show on screen. This way, you can adapt your view and task controls to only show things that are relevant to you. You can manage the noise and reduce the anxiety on your to-do list.

This release, by the way, sets the stage for our top secret (lol) focus mode, coming soon.

New onboarding experience

Before we were onboarding you with a lot of tasks. The idea was to give you a feel of all the product could do but honestly it was a lot. So, true to my minimalism pursuit, we trimmed it down to the essentials.

This includes a new welcome video (that I regrettably recorded on the old UI, updates to follow...) and guidance on creating projects and teams... and that's it!

A more minimalistic UI

We've removed the labels on the top nav buttons (Filters and View Settings) and moved the main page title down in Tasks to make the UI a lot cleaner and less overwhelming. Work will continue to remove anything that's not needed so stay tuned.

New Founding Team special plan

As we gear up to full public release with all the bells and whistles, we are introducing a new Founding Team plan. If you decide to come aboard, you will have direct access to me, Plot's founder, via Slack.

You can DM me for direct support at any time (bet you can't do that with Asana's founder), get early access to new features, and help shape the future of Plot with priority feature requests.

You have a great idea on a feature that you desperately want? Ask away. To me. Directly.

Oh and I will also help you get set up with 1 on 1 onboarding, and give you a nice 40% off for your team's first year to help transition from your current platform.

You can get all the details of what's included in our pricing page.

Free trial reset

A lot changed in Plot during November. So, if you were on a Plot trial before, we've reset all trials so as soon as you log in again, you will have an extra 15 days to try the new version 🔥

Brand new website

And finally, to celebrate it all, we have a sparking new website.

My background is in web design, so I put a lot of love into this new version of the site. I also refreshed our branding and I'm very happy with how it all came together. Even added cool fades, noise, a retro style font for our headlines and a lot of trendy feature boxes. The designer in me is proud.

The site is live right now!

Bug fixes and improvements

• In our previous release we introduced real time collaboration in the text editor. In turn, that introduced some latency in opening up existing documents. In this release we fixed the issue and documents are back to being instant.
• Loading large views (1000s of tasks) could make render slow in some cases. We've rearchitected our rendering strategy and now it's buttery smooth, regardless of how many tasks you are viewing.
• We've fixed a bug on keyboard navigation that was preventing it to activate reliably, requiring several down arrow clicks before kicking in. Now it works as expected.
• Fixed a bug when using the command menu (⌘+k) where changing assignees from "My tasks" could throw an error.
• Fixed a bug that prevented "Trial expired" status to update correctly in some cases.
• Fixed small visual regression on Task filters (styling mostly)
• Fixed enter key causing duplicate entries in some cases in tasks.
• Fixed duplicate log entries when updating project statuses.
• Fixed board cards not focusing correctly in some cases when using the add task button.

This past couple of weeks we focused on 2 things: The editor, and bug fixes and performance improvements.

And so, today's release brings new exciting capabilities to Plot's text editor.

Realtime sync

Our text editor was the only piece of the app that didn't receive realtime updates, until now. This sets the groundwork for collaborative editing (with people and with AI 👀)

Now, as soon as you start typing in any Document, Task or Project, your updates are instantly synced for everyone in your workspace.

New editor blocks

This release adds 2 new components: Callout and Toggle.

To use them, type "/" in your editor to see all the available blocks.

Improvements & bug fixes

• We've rebuilt the documents layout to improve the experience of showing+hiding the documents list. Now, you get a clear button to collapse the documents panel.
• Improved markdown pasting - Plot now correctly renders pasted markdown into fully edited text
• Fixes issue with group visibility controls in task view settings, now correctly showing and hiding inactive groups (backlog, cancelled), and empty groups. As a result, the “View settings → show empty groups” toggle actually drives the board/list, hidden groups don’t pop back unexpectedly, and the default/not-started lane behaves predictably.
• Fixed issue that was preventing new cards in board view from correctly receiving focus for fast inserts
• Improved performance on inserting new tasks in list and board view
• Fixes header not expanding properly in large screens when document panel is open
• Fixes comments composer not detecting empty reliably (tip: you can post your comment with cmd + enter now!)
• Fix issues with activity logs creating excessive logs and displaying duplicates in some cases
• Added a new image resizer to the editor that is both faster and more reliable than the previous version
• Fixed a small inconsistency in project archive behavior
• Improvement: added back button on sign in screens
• Improvement: adds footer to sign in screens

Meet our new, ultra-fast, reusable templates for projects that instantly create all tasks, assignees and even deadlines for you, using our new automated dates feature.

Add your brief and tasks like a normal project

From your team's templates navigate to the new "Projects" tab, and create a new template.

You'll have the full document editor to write your brief or PRD, and the dedicated task list at the bottom.

Everything you add to the "Tasks" section is a template on its own. You can go in and fill in all the details, set the properties (as usual) and hash out the entire project execution.

Whenever you start a new project from a template, Plot will generate all the tasks needed to finish it.

Automate due date assignment and deadlines with our new auto-dates feature

The most annoying part of using project templates is having to manually configure the due dates and do mental math for each individual task. Every. Single. Time.

Well, with Plot you won't have to do that any more.

From your tasks list click the calendar icon. In the new "Auto" tab you'll be able to pick a date relative to when you create project or its start/due dates.

Then, when you create the new project, the due date for the task will be auto-calculated for you.

Create your projects with one click

From the "projects" section of your team, you'll see a new button with a downward facing arrow. On that button you will see a dropdown menu with all your templates.

Plot will create a new project with your predefined settings, brief and tasks when you select any of them.

Improvements and bug fixes:

• Fixed a regression in our main text input that caused text truncation issues, as well as the wrong starting position to the input when the editor was unfocused.
• Fixed a small lag issue in our text editor when rendering the drag handle.
• Fixed a visual regression in our icon picker, previously rendering larger than the regular inputs in some cases.

Today we're kicking off Plot's changelog, and this is a big one. This release includes our brand new task templates, natural language dates in tasks, and a host of improvements and bug fixes.

Create new tasks from templates with one click

Now you can create templates for your tasks in Plot and then have quick access to them during creation with a new slash command menu.

To create a new template, use your team's menu

The template editor has access to all the properties from a regular task. You can edit the title and description (of course) but also add a default due date, assignee, labels and more.

Go to the sidebar, hover over the team's name and in the ··· menu, go to Templates to get started.

While typing a new task, type / to access all your templates

Use the arrow keys or continue typing to find the template you want, and press enter. With one click all the data will be populated in your task.

This is (as far as we can tell) the fastest task creation experience in any project management app.

Set the due date on tasks using natural language

You can now type any date using natural language while creating a task by using an @ sign. It works with any format of date for example: @today , @in 10 days or @Sept 21

Once you press enter or click outside the task, the tag will be removed and the due date will be updated.

Plot is now 2x faster

In this release we added a (big) optimization to make navigating between pages even faster than before. It was pretty fast already but now it's rapidly approaching instant, as it should be.

Improvements and bug fixes

• Fixed a bug that caused priority flags to disappear unexpectedly in tasks
• Fixed a bug that caused some drag and drop operations to fail in board view
• Rearchitected our main text input from the ground up to support the new input features. This change makes task creation a lot smoother.
• Fixed issues with avatar uploads and profile updates