When you have a task (card ) details open, you can swipe left to right to switch between the tabs:
When you open a task on your phone, it opens to the DETAILS tab by default. Swipe right and you will get to the next tab (CHECKLIST); swipe again and you will get to CHAT.
You can go back the same way by swiping left. And when you swipe left from the DETAILS tab, it will close the task details and return you to the board view.
When we first designed our mobile app we assumed that people would be using Kerika primarily on the desktop, and only occasionally on mobile phones. That assumption is not true: increasingly we are seeing new users who are “mobile-first”.
This has prompted us to make a bunch of small improvements to our mobile app, mainly to make sure as much of the desktop functionality is available on the phone as well.
One thing that’s still not supported, and probably never will be, is buying subscriptions using a phone. That’s because both Google and Apple charge outrageous commissions for purchases made from a phone, which is why even giant companies like Netflix don’t support purchases directly from a phone.
If you think something is missing, let us know.
In our latest update to the Kerika app, on desktop and mobile, we have made the AI Helper even more helpful. Previously it would provide only guidance: it would suggest ways you could improve individual tasks or boards, but it would leave it to you to make all the changes.
Now, it can do that work for you: ask it to create a task for you, for example, and it can do so very well — complete with all the relevant details. Here’s an example of creating a new task, and then asking the AI Helper to move it:
Before acting, the AI Helper lets you preview each change and decide whether to approve or reject them. Here’s an example, from start to finish:
First, the user uses one of the “quick action” shortcuts that show up when you start a new chat in the AI Helper, in this case the one that asks the AI Helper to suggest adding any cards that may be missing from a board:
The AI Helper takes a look at the entire board and then makes a suggestion:
When the user tells the AI Helper to proceed, Kerika lets the user see exactly what would be added and where:
In this example, only a single change is being made; if there were multiple changes being made the user could preview each one and accept or reject changes individually. The new card that’s being added to this Task Board is also highlighted, in the bottom left corner of the board.
The user can open the new (suggested) task to make sure it meets their requirements:
Buttons are shown for ACCEPT and REJECT.
The AI Helper can work with all aspects of a Task Board including its settings, as shown in this example:
The suggestions are shown as links you can click on (“Board Settings”) in the example above.
Clicking on the link opens the relevant dialog and lets you review the proposed changes if you would like to:
If you reject the AI Helpers suggestion, that’s noted in the chat stream:
Give it a try and let us know what you think!
We have made a small change to how Tag preferences are handled: previously they were set at the Board level, by individual Board Admins, but now they are set at the Account level by Account Owners and Account Admins.
This can be done by going to your Manage Account page and selecting the OTHER SETTINGS tab:
This will enable more consistent use of tags.
We have very significantly improved the AI Helper to now work as an assistant within Task Boards, and even within individual cards (tasks) on a Task Board.
To use, click on the AI button that appears on the bottom right corner of the Kerika app, on the desktop or mobile. Here’s an example of what it looks like, for desktop users:
Let’s take a closer look at the components of the AI Helper pane:
On the top-right corner are buttons to access old AI Helper Chats, and to close the AI Helper pane:
The old chats are shown in reverse-chronological order, with the most recent on top:
You can resume any old chat at any time, if you want to return to a particular discussion you had with the AI Helper. It’s useful to keep different discussions in different chat streams, because that helps the AI Helper understand more easily the context for your requests.
Within the main body of the AI Helper, shown whenever you start a new chat, are some Quick Actions:
These are:
There are Quick Actions for individual cards on Task Boards as well: you can see these when you open the AI Helper after having opened the card first.
While the AI Helper focuses on the entire board when no individual card is open, here the AI Helper focuses on a single card. The Quick Actions are:
We would to hear from you on how well the AI Helper works in general, and whether our Quick Actions can be improved!
Our AI Helper just got better at creating new boards and templates: although it looks the same as before, behind the scenes it now can do Web searches to find relevant material to use for building what you need.
This means that you can now make more general requests to the AI Helper, like “make a board for me to learn about AI agents”. To build this board, the AI Helper will automatically do a Web search to find the best articles out there that cover AI agents, and then build a learning board for you.
If you are working on a Task Board, the Board Settings dialog’s Column tab can now let you hide or show columns.
To use this feature, open the Board Settings dialog by clicking on the gear button that appears on the top-right corner when you are viewing a Task Board, and then switching to the COLUMNS tab.
When you hover over any column in the list an options button (three dots) will appear:
Click on that and you will see the Actions menu.:
This makes it easier to manage boards with large numbers of columns.
We are thrilled to announce a partnership with Twine, a global expert network that major companies are using to outsource all kinds of work:
Twine has over 500,000 registered members already, and is growing fast — and we are thrilled to be partnering with them to help Twine’s freelancers and clients get more done using our Task Boards.
Twine’s users are exactly the kind of folks that Kerika was designed for: creative people, developers, freelancers and businesses that need to come together quickly to execute on a project. In an environment that’s that fast-moving, having access to a task management tool that’s designed specially for remote and distributed teams, with a design that’s simple enough for anyone to get going with, is essential.
And that’s where Kerika can help Twine’s community.
As part of this partnership we will develop custom templates that can help Twine projects get going faster. And that’s just a starting point: we hope, over the coming months, to deepen this relationship!
Board Admins can now invite people to join their boards as Team Members or Visitors by simply sharing a unique link that’s created for each board. We added this function because some of latest users include schools that want to add large groups of parents to boards with a single action. Here’s how it works:
When you open the Board Team dialog (as a Board Admin), you will see a new option at the bottom, called Let People Join Using a Link:
Clicking on this will bring up a dialog that let’s you create links for adding people as Board Admins, Team Members, and Visitors:
For additional security, separate links are created for each role: Board Admin, Team Member, and Visitor. When you turn on one of these options, Kerika will create a special link that you can then send to a large group of people to join you board.
(We obscured the link in the screenshot above, for our own security!)
When you create a link, it’s also automatically copied to your clipboard for easy pasting in an email or chat.
If you are concerned that the link may have been compromised, perhaps because the people you sent it to have carelessly passed it on to others, you can always turn it off: turning off a link will automatically make it useless for future use.
You can then create a new link if you want to.
Try it, and let us know what you think.
We are making a change to the names of the Done and Trash columns on Task Boards, to make it easier for new users to understand what these columns represent.
The Done column will become Completed and the Trash column will become Deleted.
Looking at the demographics of our new users, we found that over 80% had never used any kind of boards before, and we think the new names will be easier for them to understand.
This is just a naming change, there’s no difference in functionality.