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