New in Vistaly

December 10, 2024

Feature Updates 🎉

• Persist filters to your organization so they are shared with your teammates.
• Allow filtering tree on KPI status.

Bugfixes 🐛

• Hide filters when its corresponding card type is disabled.
• Fix insight source filter so it works with the updated insight experience.
• Update filter language to use customized card language.
• Fix bug that would prevent interviews from showing up until a feedback was created.

December 7, 2024

Feature Updates 🎉

• Update roadmap filters to match tree filters.

December 5, 2024

Feature Updates 🎉

• Add ability to filter tree based on insight count.

Bugfixes 🐛

• Fix slack bot bug when choosing person for feedback.
• Update notification link to select cards on the tree.

December 3, 2024

Feature Updates 🎉

• Add ability to filter tree based on card type.

November 29, 2024

Bugfixes 🐛

• Fix bug that prevent sessions from loading when deep linking to them.

November 28, 2024

Bugfixes 🐛

• Fix image uploading from insights.

November 21, 2024

Feature Updates 🎉

• Add ability to bulk import insights via CSV.

November 14, 2024

Major Update to Insights

We just released a massive overhaul to Insights that has everything teams need to collect, analyze, and organize customer feedback and discovery interviews directly into your Opportunity-solution Trees.

Vistaly now offers two different types of input for capturing insights:

1. Interviews - PMs, designers, and researchers can take long-form discovery interview notes right in Vistaly. You can link snippets of these notes to (as Insights) to the relevant card.
2. Feedback - as customer-facing teams (like sales, support, and customer success) talk to prospects and customers, they can relay product feedback and other relevant information that might inform product strategy to the product team.

Read the updated docs for full details on the changes.

October 21, 2024

Bugfixes 🐛

• Fix visual bug where custom fields prevent long multi-select options from overflowing.

October 1st, 2024

Feature Updates 🎉

• Updated app-wide navigation. These navigational changes lay the foundation for an upcoming major release. Stay tuned!
• Added workspace management page to admin views

September 2, 2024

New pricing plans

TLDR: we’re sunsetting our Freemium plan and moving from a “per seat” to “pricing tiers” model.

We we’re getting rid of Freemium

Our initial thesis behind the Freemium plan was that it would be a great way for teams to get started with Vistaly. They’d adopt the product with a small team, and usage would spread throughout company, ultimately prompting an upgrade to paid.

This rarely happens. The overwhelming majority of our paid customers convert to a paid plan relatively quickly, without a prolonged Freemium usage period.

We want to sunset the Freemium tier so that we can prioritize solving for and offering assistance to people with a high level of motivation to become more Outcomes-focused.

What happens next?

If you’re currently on a Freemium plan, we’ll be transitioning you to an On-trial state with a trial length of 60 days. This means you’ll have 60-days of unlimited access to really exercise the product before deciding if you want subscribe to one of the new paid tiers.

We’re offering a lifetime discount of 10% to current Freemium users as a thank you for being part of our early community.

If you’re on one of the existing paid plans, you don’t have to do anything for now. We may choose to sunset these legacy plans in the future.

However, if you’d like to make changes to your existing plan, you’ll need to move onto one of the new plans to do so.

Questions or concerns?

If you have any questions or concerns with this change, send us an email at support@vistaly.com and we’ll get back to you ASAP.

August 10, 2024

Bugfixes 🐛

• Fix bug that prevented card links from opening in a new tab.

Feature Updates 🎉

• When clicking on an insight from your search results, you can now edit/delete it, add it to a new card, or view the cards it’s attached to.

August 9, 2024

Bugfixes 🐛

• Fix bug that wouldn’t allow you to edit a link’s content.

August 8, 2024

Bugfixes 🐛

• Fix bug that prevented links from being changed when on a card’s first line.
• Fix bug that wouldn’t allow you to click “View in Tree” from an insight.
• Fix race condition that would occasionally occur when deep linking to the drawer.

August 7, 2024

Bugfixes 🐛

• Fix bug that would prevent editing your active workspace’s name from settings.
• Fix loading bug when deep linking to a session and then navigating to the tree.

Feature Updates 🎉

• Redesign search to make it a cleaner experience. Adds ability to remove insights and/or archived cards from the search results.
• Reduce minimum number of characters to trigger search from 3 to 2.
• Make update modal’s refresh button more prominent.

August 5, 2024

Bugfixes 🐛

• Fix loading bug when deep linking to a session.

Performance Improvements 🏎️

• Make many search results render more quickly.

August 1, 2024

Bugfixes 🐛

• Fix onboarding tooltip bug.
• Fix race condition that would result in app crashing.
• Add polling to app to ensure dropped messages are rehydrated.

Feature Updates 🎉

• Update cards to auto-save if you click off of them.
• Add text cursor to make it clear where you should click to edit card.
• Drop root workspace selector and always redirect to first workspace.
• Move leave organization under advanced settings.
• Allow key results to have an unset start or target value.

July 25th, 2024

Bugfixes 🐛

• Fix bug that would result in infinite spinner when loading the tree.

July 24th, 2024

Performance Improvements 🏎️

• Loading trees (especially large trees) is much faster.

Bugfixes 🐛

• Eliminated race conditions that resulted in odd behavior.
• Fix card centering bugs on the tree view.

July 3rd, 2024

Feature Updates 🎉

• Updates story mode to use folds instead of being a dedicated experience.

June 27th, 2024

Feature Updates 🎉

• Adds update modal to notify you when Vistaly has launched a new version.

June 26th, 2024

Major update to the Roadmap view

Out vision for the Roadmap is that it’s a tool for communicating at a high-level the Solutions you’re working on now, and the Opportunities you are committed to addressing in the future.

We found that showing Opportunities and Solutions on different views makes it hard for stakeholders to quickly understand what the product teams are doing.

What are we doing to address this?

• We’re combining Opportunities and Solutions into a single unified Roadmap view (and moving Experiments to their own Experiment Tracker view).
• The “status” of Opportunities is now driven by child cards — parent cards will automatically take on the furthest now-next-later status of their child cards.
• We only show the “furthest down” child on the Roadmap

See the Roadmap documentation for full details on how this view works now.

Other Updates 🎉

• You can now disable the Assumption and Experiment cards. Doing so will also remove the Experiment Tracker from the top navigation.
• We display a tooltip with full names when hovering over assignees on a card
• Added Custom Fields to the Export artifact
• Updated our Jira integration to support updates on Atlassian’s end
• Major overhaul to the docs site to account for updated views and card styles this year
• Major overhaul to the new user onboarding experience

Bugfixes 🐛

• If someone else moved a card to another parent, we weren’t broadcasting that such that others using the tool

April 5th, 2024

Feature Updates 🎉

• You can now disable the Vision Statement, Objective, or KPI card type, making it easier for your whole team to understand which cards to use and speak the same language.
• We’ve updated KPI statuses to Observational, Within Limits, and Out of Limits. The previous set of statuses implied that you were actively working on improving the KPI. The proper way to communicate that effort is to use the Outcome (aka Key Result) card.

March 27th, 2024

Feature Updates 🎉

• You can now sort Roadmap items within a given column. This will help you more clearly communicate what your team’s focus is.
• You can now add Unmapped cards to your Roadmap using the ”+” icons in column headers

Usability Improvement 🤩

• You can shift+click a card’s “Show Above” button to show all the way up to the top of the Workspace

March 14th, 2024

Feature Updates 🎉

• Continuing from last week’s release, we’ve updated how cards look in the Roadmap (formerly List) and Reports view.
• The link to the Insights page has moved from the top navigation to the left sidebar.
• You can now update a user’s role without needing to re-invite them.

Looking For Beta Testers 🧪

• We’re about to launch the ability to sort items within the Now/Next/Later Roadmap. If you’d like to get early access and give feedback, send an email to steve@vistaly.com.

March 6th, 2024

Feature Updates 🎉

• We launched a major overhaul to how cards look and function on the Tree view. See the video below.

• You can now use cmd + scroll (in addition to shift + scroll) to zoom in/out.

Performance Improvements 🏎️

• We refactored the front and and performance (espcially in Workspaces with high card counts) should feel dramatically faster.

Bugfixes 🐛

• Fixed a bug where users that just joined your organization wouldn’t show as active up in the bottom right until you refreshed.
• Fixed a bug where using the mouse to highlight the text in a card would drag the entire Workspace.

February 20th, 2024

Bugfixes 🐛

• Fix bug that would prevent custom field dropdowns from showing up in list or report view.

Feature Updates 🎉

• Improve customer and label pickers.

February 16th, 2024

Feature Updates 🎉

• Public launch of custom fields, check out the docs. Thanks to everyone who helped with the beta!
• Switch to Cmd + K for search.

Bugfixes 🐛

• Fix bug that could occur when creating comments & having slack integration setup.

Februrary 13th, 2024

Feature Updates 🎉

• Allow reordering single-select custom options.

February 2nd, 2024

Feature Updates 🎉

• Add single-select custom field.
• Add single-select tree filter.

Bugfixes 🐛

• Fix card content overflow in tree view.

January 30th, 2024

Feature Updates 🎉

• Add custom field filters (rating) to tree view.
• Add planning column to roadmap allowing you to view ideas.

January 24th, 2024

Bugfixes 🐛

• Fix race condition that would occasionally result in infinite spinner when loading app.

January 22nd, 2024

Feature Updates 🎉

• Add custom field filters (slider & yes/no) to tree view.

January 18th, 2024

Feature Updates 🎉

• Roadmap text search support.

January 17th, 2024

Feature Updates 🎉

• Support reordering custom fields.
• Allow viewing custom fields on card faces in the tree view.

Performance 🏎️

• Improve performance of notification routes.

January 8th, 2024

Bugfixes 🐛

• Fix bug where filters would be incorrectly applied in tree view when story mode was enabled.

January 8th, 2024

Feature Updates 🎉

• More clearly separate KPIs (persistent) and Key Results/Outcomes (point-in-time). For more information and tips on using KPIs and Key Results/Outcomes, check out this post.

Bugfixes 🐛

• Fix bug where labels would be cut off.

January 6th, 2024

Feature Updates 🎉

• Adds quick submit for card editor.
• Adds facilitator and details to session email.

December 30th, 2023

Feature Updates 🎉

• Allow deleting a custom field with responses (after confirmation).

December 28th, 2023

Feature Updates 🎉

• Launch beta version of sessions.

Bugfixes 🐛

• Fix bug where custom names wouldn’t show in settings.

December 20th, 2023

Feature Updates 🎉

• Allow customizing number of stars in rating custom field.

December 19th, 2023

Performance 🏎️

• Split client-side JavaScript bundle reducing time to download assets.

December 14th, 2023

Feature Updates 🎉

• See online teammates in the tree.

Performance 🏎️

• Improve Slack bot performance.

November 28th, 2023

Bugfixes 🐛

• Fix comment highlighting.

Feature Updates 🎉

• Add threads to comments.
• Add comment deletion.
• Add last signed-in to team settings.

November 16th, 2023

Performance 🏎️

• Workspace render performance. Workspaces load faster, and adding cards feels smoother.

Security 🔒

• Enforce adjusted password complexity.

November 15th, 2023

Bugfixes 🐛

• Fix Excel export on large trees.

November 14th, 2023

Feature Updates 🎉

• Update Jira integration to support rich text format.
• Pinch to zoom on the map.
• Auto-populate workspace name in Slack insight workflow.
• Export tree UX (Beta feature, available upon request).

Bugfixes 🐛

• Fixes bug where sometimes the backlog would not close

November 10th, 2023

Bugfixes 🐛

• Fix the delete label bug with migrated workspaces.
• Fix insight similarity API when payloads are large.

November 8th, 2023

Feature Updates 🎉

Fullscreen Mode

Now, view any card fullscreen.

• Add sentiment and reverse sentiment custom field types (Beta Only)

November 5th, 2023

Feature Updates 🎉

Custom Fields (Beta Only)

With custom fields, add your sizing criteria directly to any opportunity.

Bugfixes 🐛

• Improved error handling.

October 30th, 2023

Bugfixes 🐛

• Prevent the “Unsaved changes” alert from displaying unexpectedly.

October 25th, 2023

Feature Updates 🎉

• Rich text support for card titles.

Bugfixes 🐛

• Address issues where card titles with quotes are incorrectly displayed with new formatting.

October 17th, 2023

Feature Updates 🎉

There is a new and improved insight repository experience!

• Combines both inbox and catalog for a simple, unified experience.
• Allows for attaching insights to multiple cards.
• Configure columns to show and hide exactly what you want
• Sort by multiple properties
• Export as a CSV
• Search across multiple properties

October 14th, 2023

Bugfixes 🐛

• Ensure the overview tab is opened by default
• Onboarding experience issues
• Slack insight bug

October 6th, 2023

Feature Updates 🎉

• Allow the list view navigator to be fully minimized. Take advantage of the full screen when presenting the roadmap.

October 3rd, 2023

Security 🔒

• Reduce session duration length.

October 2nd, 2023

Feature Updates 🎉

• Dynamically update title tag for better tab management

Bugfixes 🐛

• Fix bug where Tree would occasionally move unexpectedly

September 29th, 2023

Bugfixes 🐛

• Fix regression where details wouldn’t show in report & roadmap

September 28th, 2023

Feature Updates 🎉

• Sort slack bot dropdown alphabetically
• Add leave organization functionality to workspace selection screen
• Include comment creator in email / slack message notification

September 27th, 2023

Feature Updates 🎉

• Highlight card when navigating to it from search results

Performance 🏎️

• Make navigating from report back to tree faster

September 26th, 2023

Bugfixes 🐛

• Fix filter bug where all matching cards wouldn’t return

September 22nd, 2023

Feature Updates 🎉

• Allow insights to be attached to multiple cards

September 15th, 2023

Feature Updates 🎉

• Make zooming in / out feel more natural

Security 🔒

• Improve security through additional response headers

September 6th, 2023

Feature Updates 🎉

• Add request access workflow to the share workspace workflow.

September 5th, 2023

Feature Updates 🎉

• Add metric history to reporting views

September 1st, 2023

Feature Updates 🎉

• Improve keyboard shortcuts and make them more consistent with common UX patterns

Bugfixes 🐛

• Fix hidden tooltips on tree cards
• Fix windows shortcut mappings

August 26th, 2023

Feature Updates 🎉

• Add inline label editing support
• Add comment & insights bar – Hide using the settings menu

August 25th, 2023

Feature Updates 🎉

• Update inline text editing behavior (Consistent shortcuts)
• Update text body auto-submit behavior
• Add support for moving insights between workspaces

Performance 🏎️

• Improve move card performance
• Improve delete card performance

August 22nd, 2023

Feature Updates 🎉

Inline Status Editing

Quickly make status changes without opening the side menu.

Bugfixes 🐛

• New comment sort order.
• Delete card from side menu.
• Backlog card inconsistencies.

August 18th, 2023

Bugfixes 🐛

• Fix bug where a metric’s target was displaying the wrong value.
• Fix bug where backlog cards wouldn’t load.

August 16th, 2023

Bugfixes 🐛

Fix regression where metric history wouldn’t show up in drawer.

August 15th, 2023

Bugfixes 🐛

Allow number inputs to have decimals entered with leading zeros.

August 10th, 2023

Feature Updates 🎉

Advanced Filters

Filtering just got a major upgrade.

• Create complex chainable queries
• Filter on card metadata like who created a card or when
• Save and share your favorite filters

Once the filter is applied, the tree now displays the specific subset of data that matches your filter, and that’s it. No more scrolling to find the next match. See exactly what you want to see, all in one place, and explore where you want from there.

Check out some of the more interesting use cases:

• Use Case 1: Customer Segmentation

Look at your tree through the eyes of a specific customer or customer segment. Filter opportunities and other cards by the customers that provide insights into their specific pain points or needs.

• Use Case 2: What’s new?

Over time, your workspace will grow. Keeping up on what’s new or changed just got a whole lot easier.

• Use Case 3: Show me my work

Save time finding your work, whether that’s discovery, delivery, or experimentation work.

Navigation Improvements

Clearer indications of what’s hidden, and hiding individual paths.

August 1st, 2023

Feature Updates 🎉

• Add support for insights attached to any card type.

July 27th, 2023

Feature Updates 🎉

• Modeling your trees just got more flexible. Directly nest “Objective” card types.
• Add archived support to list view. Now use the new settings menu to show archived cards in the list view.

July 23rd, 2023

Feature Updates 🎉

Metric Intregrations – BETA

Are you using Looker or PostHog? We’re privately testing the ability to auto sync metrics with your BI & analytics systems directly with your KPIs/Outcomes/Key Results in Vistaly.

If you’d like to help iterate on these capabilities in Vistaly, or suggest others, reach out to support@vistaly.com. We want to hear from you!

July 13th, 2023

Feature Updates 🎉

Customizable Card Names

Not every team uses the same language to communicate similar concepts. Adjust card language to match how your team communicates.

Improved quickstart experience

Onboarding is important. We’ve invested time to support our new friends. 😁

June 19th, 2023

Feature Updates 🎉

• The Insights Workflow is now out of Beta! A huge thanks to all the teams that have helped refine the workflows. We are committed to continued improvements and look forward to learning more about your use cases.

To learn more about the new insights workflow, check out the docs.

June 10th, 2023

Feature Updates 🎉

Insight Slack Support

Add insights directly from Slack! Check out the insights docs to learn more.

June 6th, 2023

Bugfixes 🐛

• Fixes how archived cards are handled when prioritizing a set of children.

May 17th, 2023

Feature Updates 🎉

Metric Updates

Workspace Migration Service

If your team has multiple workspaces across various accounts and you’re looking to bring them together, we’re here to help! Reach out to support@vistaly.com, and we’ll help you bring your data together in one place.

May 2nd, 2023

Feature Updates 🎉

Quick Playlists

April 30th, 2023

Feature Updates 🎉

Flexible KPI Trees

KPI Trees can now be modeled higher in your workspace. If you’d like to learn more about this change, check out this post.

Security 🔒

• Increased security for hosted images uploaded through the in-app document editor.

April 20th, 2023

Feature Updates 🎉

Updated Statuses

Statuses have been upgraded! We’ve listened and simplified how statuses work.

Now, simply select the corresponding status, and Vistaly will take care of the rest!

If you’d like to learn more about this change, check out this post.

Improved Roadmap Views

There are three different tabs in the roadmap view that support all the new statuses.

• Discovery: What do we want to learn more about?
• Experiments: What are we testing?
• Delivery: What work are we committed to delivering?

Disable Auto Submit on Enter

There’s a new advanced user preference for disabling auto-submit on enter. This feature was introduced to better support input method editors (IMEs)

“What’s New?” Workflow

Stay up to date with all major changes.

Bugfixes 🐛

Card Resizing

Fixes an issue where card resizing failed to calculate correctly under certain circumstances.

April 10th, 2023

Feature Updates 🎉

Enhanced Story Mode

Organize your workspace in one click to create focus around the bigger picture.

Story mode has replaced both the story tab (which will be removed in a future release), and linear mode.

Data Export (Public Beta)

We know that there are several reasons to take your data out of Vistaly (reporting, data security, data validation, and so much more.) So now export your workspace and backlog with shift+E on the main workspace view.

Note: Export itself is ready for use. It’s considered beta because the data format is subject to change. If you have feedback, we want to hear it!

Improved pinch-to-zoom

Pinch to zoom was too fast for many users’ preferences. This update slows down the scroll speed to give more control over zooming.

Additional Metadata Updates

All records with timestamps now display exact dates on hover.

Read-only Support

If your account has exceeded the freemium tier limits, you can now access and continue using your workspace but will have to upgrade to one of the paid plans to add additional data.

Bugfixes 🐛

Tree Filter

• Some filters were incorrectly applied to the tree in specific states (lineage mode).

March 27th, 2023

Feature Updates 🎉

Improved metadata

Now hovering over any metadata records shows when it was created and by whom.

Pinch to Zoom

Trackpad pinch-to-zoom is now supported!

Attach insights from within the workspace (Beta Users Only)

Now you don’t have to leave the tree view to add insights from the inbox.

Selecting *Add Existing Insight(s) opens the inbox within the current view, where you can filter and search insights.

Insight Filtering – By tag & Search (Beta Users Only)

Filter insights by themes using tags, or search for similar text to find what you’re looking for quickly.

Customer Management (Beta Users Only)

Now manage which customers provided insights to help prioritize and shape the opportunity space.

Bugfixes 🐛

Inactive Dropdowns

Some users experienced dropdowns that became unresponsive over time.