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2024. Notion acquires privacy-focused productivity platform Skiff



In a development that could only be described as perfectly sensible in the grand, bewildering scheme of digital life, Notion, the tool that already does practically everything, has decided it might as well do a bit more by acquiring Skiff. Skiff, for those who haven't been keeping track, popped into existence in 2020 under the guidance of Andrew Milich and Jason Ginsberg, offering an intriguingly encrypted concoction of file storage, document wrangling, calendars and email services. After securing a respectable $14.2 million, Skiff proudly positioned itself as the privacy-conscious alternative to Google Docs—until, of course, it announced on its website that it would join forces with Notion. Skiff users, however, needn’t panic; their accounts won’t be unceremoniously absorbed into Notion like some cosmic accident. Instead, they'll have six months of blissful transition time to move their data wherever they please, with, naturally, the faintest whiff of ease.


2021. Notion acquires India’s Automate.io in push to accelerate product expansion



In a move reminiscent of an improbably timed cosmic coincidence, Notion, the workplace productivity wunderkind, has decided to swallow Automate.io whole — an ingenious Indian startup famed for knitting together a delightfully complicated web of over 200 service integrations. This gobbling up is Notion's latest endeavor to stretch itself into a galaxy of enticing possibilities for the untold millions of users and enterprises now flocking to digital collaborative realms. Armed with Automate.io’s enviable library of connectors, Notion hopes to weave workflows into a seamless tapestry of automation wizardry, giving users the unmistakable sense that, perhaps, everything is proceeding according to some ineffable plan.

2021. Collaborative iOS app Craft Docs secures $8M



Craft Docs app — which was created from the ground up as an iOS application for collaborative documents — has secured an $8 million Series A. Currently available on iOS, iPadOS and MacOS, Craft now intends to launch APIs, extended integrations and a browser-based editor in 2021. It has ambitions to become a comparable product to Notion. CEO Balint Grosz says, “Notion is very much centered around writing and wikis and all that sort of thing. We have a lot of users coming from Notion, but we believe we have a superior solution for people, primarily for written content. Notion is very strong with its databases and structural content. People just happen to use it for other purposes. So we are viewed as a very strong rival by our users because of the similarities in the product. I don’t believe our markets overlap much, but right now, from the outside, people do transition from Notion to us and they do perceive us as being competitors.”


2021. Atlassian peps up Confluence with new graphical design features



Confluence, Atlassian’s wiki-like collaborative workspace, has been available for over 15 years and is often a central knowledge-sharing tool for the organizations that use it. Today’s update introduces features such as cover images, title emojis and customizable space avatars (i.e., “icons that represent a ‘space’ or section of Confluence”). The team also recently unveiled smart links, which let you paste links from services like YouTube and Trello, allowing the platform to instantly recognize and display them in their native format. Other new features include the option to schedule when a new page is published and the capability to convert pages into blog posts (as Atlassian has observed a resurgence in corporate blogging — primarily for internal audiences — during the pandemic).


2020. Online workspace startup Notion raises $50M



Online workspace startup Notion has secured $50 million in additional funding, bringing its valuation to $2 billion. Established in 2016, Notion provides an all-in-one workspace that integrates support for notes, tasks, wikis and databases. Marketed as consolidating various everyday work applications into a single platform, the service is aimed at task and project management. Amid the global COVID-19 pandemic, Notion’s capabilities for remote work played a key role in securing this investment. The company is reported to have experienced record levels of new customer registrations in recent weeks as many people transition to working from home. Remote work has surged in 2020 due to COVID-19, with companies offering remote work solutions seeing significant increases in demand.


2020. Atlassian’s Confluence gets a new template gallery



Confluence, Atlassian’s content-focused collaboration platform for teams, is simplifying the onboarding process for new users with the introduction of an enhanced template gallery and 75 new templates. This update highlights Confluence’s transformation from a specialized wiki for technical documentation teams to a widely-used tool across various organizations. The refreshed template gallery will help users quickly locate the template that best fits their needs, with new search functions, filters and previews available in the right-hand panel of your Confluence site.


2016. Social knowledge base MindTouch gets $12 Million



MindTouch, a cloud platform that assists customers in locating answers to product queries using the company’s current documentation, training resources and support documents, has announced $12 million in funding after years of self-funding. What they do is take a company’s existing documentation and other materials and make them available online for customer access and utilization. They achieve this by breaking the content into smaller segments and extracting metadata to enhance searchability online. They then integrate that with machine learning to create coherent learning paths through the materials. The end result is a more efficient way for customers to search for and find the information they need without having to contact customer support.


2014. Workplace messaging app Cotap now lets you text documents from Box, Dropbox and others



Cotap, the startup aiming to become the “WhatsApp for the workplace,” is expanding beyond mobile messaging into file sharing, with integrations with Box, Dropbox, Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive. It is also adding web and desktop applications (starting with native Mac apps) for use when you are not on a smartphone or tablet and releasing updated mobile apps for iOS and Android. Cotap was established last year by former Yammer executives and has recently surpassed 10,000 business clients, typically ranging from 50 to 100 employees, including companies like Philz Coffee and the Hyatt hotel chain.


2014. Google Wave is back. Via Sandstorm



Four years ago, Google shut down its next-generation collaborative messaging service Google Wave and transferred the code to the Apache project, which continued its development quietly, though in a manner that required users to operate their own server. Now, Wave has returned in a user-friendly (SaaS) format for those interested. The intriguing Sandstorm project, which is creating a "personal cloud platform" that can be hosted for regular users or self-installed by tech-savvy individuals, has integrated Wave into that platform. This means Sandstorm users can now install Wave with a single click and begin collaborating with friends and colleagues without the need to configure a server.


2014. Box Notes is available on Android



Box refreshed its Android app and incorporated the lightweight document editor Box Notes into it. With the new version of Box for Android, you’ll be able to create, view and modify Box Notes just like you can on the web. Box Notes on Android offers smooth integration into the native menus, providing all the essential editor functionalities you’d anticipate: cut, copy, paste, bold, italic, underline, bullet list, numbered list, indent and outdent. Additionally, it’s now possible to create checklists using Box Notes (both on the web and in mobile apps) and the interface is available in all supported languages. The Box for Android update also introduces a range of new features to boost your productivity, including recently accessed files, advanced settings for shared URLs and detailed admin controls.