Cardinal Blog
Tracking Competitors with Cardinal
Info about competitors comes up from time to time. Cardinal can help you keep it organized and help your team avoid duplicate research.
Using the Cardinal One-on-One Meeting Template
If you've been in management for any amount of time, you've probably heard of a one-on-one meeting. Learn how Cardinal can help you with your one-on-ones.
Documenting Plants with a 3D Printer, NFC, and Cardinal
Follow the path from new tool to idea to finished product as we solve the problem of how to remember what plat is what in the garden.
Your Team Chat App Probably Isn't Asynchronous
Personal and cultural expectations have a lot to do with how teams use chat tools, and those expectations tend to cause them to be used synchronously
Checklist Template Components
We recently launched the new Checklist template components. They're great for including preset lists of tasks in templates.
Sharing Without Interrupting
While we love the boost of endorphins we get from being validated with immediate feedback from real-time communication, we're not fans of the feeling we get at the end of the day, when we realize we did more conversation juggling and bantering, than building and shipping.
Why We Don't Show Typing Status in Cardinal
Here's how being deliberate with building Discussions helped reduce interruptions and improve inclusivity in Cardinal.
The Template Library
This week we launched our new Template Library. Teams can now add pre-designed templates with a click.
The Difficulty of DMs
"How can I reduce back channels?" was one of my core motivations when I started thinking about building Cardinal.
Introducing Updates, and More
Our latest release includes a new feature called Updates, Updated Navigation, Search Updates, and a new Team Menu field.
Duplicate Cards
Back in December, right before the holiday, we shipped a new feature enabling the ability to duplicate any card.
Toggles
Today we launched a new field type for custom cards - toggles. Toggles have two states - on or off, but allow you to re-label those states...
"Everyone can edit" Visibility Option
Today we launched a new "Everyone can edit" card visibility option for teams that want to share edit access to cards with everyone on the team.
Groups
Announcing Cardinal Groups! Groups let you create groups of team members and mention and share with them as if they were a single person.
Delete Cards
This week we have a small release, adding the ability for card owners to delete their cards. Deleting cards allows your team to keep information tidy.
Card Designer
Our new Card Designer is focused on making it easier to define and customize custom card types to solve any problems your team has in tracking data.
New Card View
We're releasing a huge visual update to the card view. It exposes a lot more information at a glance and sets up future updates to the card view.
Comments!
Over the past few weeks we've been improving the document commenting system. We launched with a system that worked well but was complex...
There's Nothing Special About Remote Work
When we talk about how to be successful in the workplace, it doesn't matter if your team is remote or not.
Help Menu and Archive from Card List
This week's work was focused on a smaller update that we still think will be quite helpful. We've added a help menu to the app.
New Creation Flow and General Design Updates
Over the past few weeks we've been building a new way to create cards. The new creation flow takes significantly fewer clicks than the old one did.
Remote Work Pros and Cons
We hear about remote work constantly. We've been building great remote teams for a while and wanted to share some positives and negatives for working remotely.
Workspace Switcher
Today we're releasing our new Workspace Switcher, which makes it easier for people with multiple workspaces to access all of them.
Saved Searches
Saved searches are finally here! We've been refining the saved searches design for a while and were finally ready to finalize it all and ship it!
Card List Updates
Cardinal v0.15.0 is out, with an updated card list design and data loading improvements that should make using the app a lot smoother.
Open Letter
We published this letter as an open letter about why we were building Cardinal before our preview launch.