Charts, sketches, & far longer briefs
We have added chart and sketch panels to Tidelark, and Drift now holds on to a great deal more of what you tell it.
New chart & sketch panels to draw an argument
Numbers and diagrams — the awkward pair that most briefs quietly skip over. You have been asking us for them in Tidelark for the better part of a year, and chart and sketch panels are now open in beta. We are starting plainly:
- Shapes, arrows and labels for freehand diagrams
- Line graphs and vertical bar graphs for charts (drop in a .csv)
Like every other panel in Tidelark, sketches and charts reflow to fit whatever width they happen to land in, and they pick up the colour and type settings already saved against your workspace.
Next we will wire the new panels into Drift, so that a composed log arrives with editable charts and diagrams already sitting in the right places. For now you add them yourself from the right-hand rail. This is an early cut of the feature and we will keep widening what you are allowed to control.
Tell Drift exactly what you want, in briefs up to 5x longer
Surprises are useful while you are still circling an idea. Once you know the shape you want, you should be able to say so. Now you can.
Example brief:
Draft a launch plan for a coastal ferry service aimed at weekend cyclists. Page 2: rider profiles, written as short bullets. Page 3: a one-line promise over a photograph of a harbour at first light. Page 4: the three things cyclists actually care about, each with a plain reason. Pages 5 and 6: fares and the first ninety days.
Go and try it — the more specific you are the better it reads, and a brief now runs to 6,000 characters.
Other things we shipped this fortnight
- We untangled several problems in the invite flow, so adding a shipmate to your workspace takes one step instead of four.