We’re launching something new today: the Rise Ambassador Program. A fancy name for rewarding anyone bringing their team (or any other team too, that’s fine). We know transitioning between tools can be a hurdle, and the best person to advocate for a better tool is someone on the team. We already see that happening, and we think it’s so valuable that we want to reward that.

The Rise Ambassador Program

In addition, we have a bunch of ideas for resources to make being an ambassador even better — in our view you’re not an ambassador for Rise, but an ambassador for better work.

On to the updates:

One place for things that change with the new updates section

You now have an official ‘Updates’ section in Rise (also accessible by tying G and then U on your keyboard). When a task you’ve subscribed to changes, you’ll be notified right there. It’s a great way to stay in the loop, without leaving Rise.

Meeting Boards for Outlook

We finalized and unlocked support for creating meeting boards for Outlook accounts. The reason for delaying it a bit is that we needed a good way to identify all relevant recurring events, across accounts, which was a fun challenge. But now that all works, and if you're on Outlook you should see the button to create a new Meeting Board appear for repeating events. For now we limit the feature to the events where everyone is part of your domain, to make sure you're not giving others outside your organization access.

Other changes and improvements

• Improvement: when creating a Meeting Board, we now no longer automatically email everyone but instead ask you if we should do that
• Improvement: when you reschedule a task that was planned for a time, we now reset the time so it will jump to all day instead
• Improvement: you can now copy the link to a task and project via the dots menu
• Improvement: in list view, the project labels are now buttons with dropdown menus so you can quickly change various properties from there
• Fixed: when you would press cmd+enter (or control+enter) when adding a new subtask, the sidebar would close instead of saving and allowing you to keep adding subtasks