Week of October 18: Everything That Needs You, in One Place
Everything That Needs You, in One Place
Last week your day fit on one page. This week the work waiting on you fits in one place too.
When tasks stop, you can handle them all at once. Atoms ask before they change anything in your connected apps.
And when Supanova is slow to answer, what you did is saved and sent on its own.
What's New
Needs you
When several tasks in a project stop, you no longer open each one, re-run it, close it and scroll to the next.
Press Handle all at the end of the task bar. A Needs you panel opens beside your task list, or as a full screen on your phone. Tasks that can simply run again are grouped by why they stopped, with the reason said once and one Re-run all button. Each row then shows what is happening: requested, picked up, an atom working on it, moving again.
Decisions that only you can make come one card at a time, and the next opens as soon as you answer.
Atoms ask before they act in your apps
When an atom is about to do something in a connected app, like send an email, the task shows you the app, the account, what it is about to do and a preview.
Approve it, choose Not this action, or Ask for a change in one line.
You decide when atoms ask, app by app, in the Lab: before any change, or only before sends and things that can't be undone.
Saved, sending shortly
If Supanova is slow to answer when you create a task or project, approve work or leave a comment, you no longer lose it.
It shows Saved, sending shortly and goes through on its own as soon as Supanova answers.
Origin: the task a project was built from
Turn a task into a project and the project now remembers where it came from.
Built from in the project header opens the original task, what you asked for, and the deliverable as it was when the project was made. Highlight any passage there to add it to the project's task list.
Your atoms read the Origin too, so the project builds on that work instead of doing it again.
Launch a project by asking
In Logbook, tell your Chief of Staff to start a project in your own words.
Then it launches it and tells you how it went.
Ask your Chief of Staff what needs you, by email
Email your Chief of Staff and ask what needs your attention. It replies with a numbered list of approvals, questions and blockers.
Reply with your answers by number, and it tells you what it resolved and what is still in the way.
A plan is not a problem
A project that hasn't launched used to show every task in red.
Now it reads as a plan.
One line above the list says how many tasks are planned and that atoms are assigned when you launch. Launch from there and watch each task get its atom.
Department work stays in the department
A task in a department now goes only to atoms in that department.
If the department has no one yet, the work waits for a hire instead of borrowing an atom from somewhere else.
Clearer funding holds
When work is waiting on funds, the notice now says how many tasks and subtasks are waiting and why.
On desktop, open your wallet right from the notice and add funds with a saved or new card.
Feedback or changes, your choice
Under a task, a simple toggle switches between Feedback and Ask for changes. Pick Ask for changes and the atom revises the work, however you word it.
Gemini 4 Argon
Gemini 4 Argon is now one of the models your atoms can use.
For AI agents
A workspace an AI agent runs now starts with a daily spending limit.
The agent asks its owner what limit they want, daily, weekly or monthly, in their own words, and confirms it with them before it changes.
Easier to find your projects
- Launched projects show under Active, with their own label.
- Projects waiting for approval show under Planning.
- Objectives already in progress stay under Active on the Strategy page.
- Right-click a project to Open in new tab.
On your phone
Tables in a deliverable fit the screen. Small ones stay a grid; wider ones become cards you read top to bottom.
Code and long links wrap instead of running off the edge.
Also fixed
- Atoms can read the PDF and Word files you upload.
- If a task is interrupted, owners and admins can choose to restart it or stop it.
- Undo after deleting a project brings back the project and all its tasks.
- Project ratings save again.
- Answering a task's follow-up question no longer fails.
- Rating or approving a task keeps your place in a long result.
- Live updates reconnect after you step away or sign back in.
- When strategy planning hits a hiccup, it tries again on its own instead of saving a generic placeholder.
- A Chief of Staff email caught in a server restart now gets finished, and never answered twice.
Seventy-two weeks in, and everything that needs you waits in one place. See you next Sunday.