With the addition of Projects to Rise, we are closing one of the bigger pain points for teams: not having one overview of what is important. Meeting boards are a great way to link work with events. Odyss is a team that decided to completely move their operations to Rise a few months ago, and we sat down with the CTO to hear how they make the most of Rise in their day to day. Here's the full interview with Nolan from Odyss. We're happy to help onboard the rest of your team too -- let us know if you need help with that.

Show all project tasks in your calendar

In the last update we introduced a feature which allows you to mark projects as favorite. Now you can also toggle all tasks for one of your favorites and have all project tasks, not just the ones assigned to yourself, show up in your calendar. Whether it's to quickly see what the rest of your team is up to, check a shared content calendar or use a project to track who is on holiday--you can have it all.

Meeting board inline tasks

Meeting boards are our way to help keep your repeating events on track. They are there right where you need them, and checking what is left to do is a quick glance away.

We have improved meeting boards a bit more by not just linking a board view, but pulling in the most relevant tasks. They are now showing up in the hovercard, as well as in the sidebar. It is also there where you can use our new inline add to jot down things that need doing.

Quick add in My Focus

Continuing on the theme of making it easier to add new items: My Focus now also allows you to add new tasks without having to switch to the popup to do that.

My Focus is a bit our ‘playing area’, where we can mix different concepts to help you stay on track – improving the ability to quickly organize and rearrange your day is one of them. This is also why we decided to make the inline add a bit smarter: it will add it right after the last planned task for the day.

Improvements and fixes

• Improvement: events that span multiple days but are not marked as all day are now by default added to the all day section.
• Improvement: improved left sidebar navigation by merging the two, confusing buttons, into one
• Improvement: it is now possible to set or update the scheduled time for task from the details panel
• Improvement: on Mac, you can now make the menu bar automatically switch to a ‘small’ variant (just the Rise icon) when there are no upcoming meetings (settings → menu bar)
• Fixed: when creating an event in an Outlook calendar, we no longer send multiple emails when the Zoom meeting is attached
• Fixed: we would not take default conferencing solution into account for Outlook calendars
• Fixed: when opening the calendar of a colleague, we now show their scheduled tasks too (the ones you have access to) and we show them in the correct color
• Fixed: after changing the selection of smart-color coding, the settings would show the same color twice
• Fixed: render a changelog item for a task when the description is added or changed
• Fixed: My Focus badge incorrectly included done tasks in the open tasks badge
• Fixed: preserve ordering of subtasks when marking a recurring parent task as complete