I was curious about your plans for Docs. I’m glad you have some very fundamental, but frequently absent features already, among my favorites:
Ability to create a seamless list of entities in a few clicks by highlighting. You may be familiar with a feature on Confluence that let’s you create into a Jira Epic issues, but it’s very cumbersome and buggy, and requires a lot of manual work later. I think you guys have already gotten a better start, and if you added some table integrations, so for example you could add dates and assignees right off, this would become super powerful
quick add via backslash of a number of items, very useful
Ability to add anywhere within Fibery
On my list for future requests:
Highlighting text. For now I cannot see that this is possible
Commenting on the entire doc
Basic info at a glance such as last modified, created, who created it
Possibly publishing when finished, and not autosaving? This actually is a feature of Confluence I think is very useful
Quick create to .pdf for sharing
Versioning
Thanks guys and eager to find out if you plan this stuff, and what else might be in store!
Ability to create a seamless list of entities in a few clicks by highlighting. You may be familiar with a feature on Confluence that let’s you create into a Jira Epic issues, but it’s very cumbersome and buggy, and requires a lot of manual work later. I think you guys have already gotten a better start, and if you added some table integrations, so for example you could add dates and assignees right off, this would become super powerful
Currently you can select a list of text (bullet list) and create entities from the list.
Entity representation in Document is very simplistic right now, just name and type. Later we want to provide customization, where you can show additional fields like assigned people, due date, etc.
quick add via backslash of a number of items, very useful
Do you mean create new Entities like Tasks?
Ability to add anywhre within Fibery
What does it mean?
Highlighting text. For now I cannot see that this is possible
Sure, this is in plans.
Commenting on the entire doc
We replicated comments from Google Docs and we thought two types of comments would be confusing.
Basic info at a glance such as last modified, created, who created it
In plans.
Possibly publishing when finished, and not autosaving? This actually is a feature of Confluence I think is very useful
We did not think about that at all. What specific case you have here?
With some discussion about Docs improvements lately, I wanted to come back here and answer your questions about what I was requesting initially. I hope this is useful and sorry I didn’t respond initially:
Ability to add anywhre within Fibery
What does it mean?
What I meant here was how this already works: Both add an entity into a doc from anywhere in Fibery, or create an entity anywhere in Fibery. In some other apps I’ve tried with similar functionality, you can’t actually freely add across an entire app, but rather within certain sections or projects only.
Commenting on the entire doc
We replicated comments from Google Docs and we thought two types of comments would be confusing.
I think some of your ideas around Conversations in Apps from here:
" 1. Remote teams . Another idea is to explore remote collaboration patterns and improve them. For example, we use Slack and are not super happy, since we always switch between Slack and Fibery to find information. Yes, Fibery replaced Google Docs for us, but not chat. What if we can get rid of Slack and implement required communication patterns in Fibery to have conversations and work together in one app? What if we can integrate work and documents even tighter using automatic back-references and more advances work representation in documents? There are many ideas and I feel we have something deep here…"
will handle all needs around this request!
Possibly publishing when finished, and not autosaving? This actually is a feature of Confluence I think is very useful
We did not think about that at all. What specific case you have here?
With this, I meant when you are working on a larger doc, perhaps in Writer’s Mode we have been discussing, you could hit a button like “save” (“publish” is how Confluence handled this) at which point the document is live in Fibery. But the changes aren’t live until you push this button. All the while Autosave is working so you don’t lose changes while composing. If you are working on a specification for example, and aren’t sure the version is ready for consumption by your team, you wouldn’t have it “go public” until you clicked this “save” button. Not to keep talking about Coda, but their rich text editor does this when popped open in “Writer’s Mode” equivalent in Coda:
