At Tatem, we’re building a revolutionary task and project management platform designed to make work fun! We know what you’re thinking... make work... fun? While it may sound like an impossible task, we’re confident that today - mere months after inception - we’re well on our way to re-designing your work.

By stripping out the bloated UI, early-2000’s design sensibilities, and unnecessary complexity, we’ve created an unrivaled user experience. And we’re just getting started. We’re building automated workflows, meaningful metrics, and gamified systems which allow teams to save time, better understand their performance, and make tasks something to look forward to.

Our product began as a tool for teams to manage their compliance, but it quickly morphed into a platform to manage everything. Now, we have teams (and individuals) using our product to:

Improve existing technology products and services

Architect crypto [insert web 3.0 jargon that no one really understands] platforms

Manage content writing and press releases

Keep track of daily sales and marketing tasks

“Design the future” (we don’t know what they’re doing either)

We cannot wait to see all of the amazing things that are built, managed, and improved with Tatem. Our vision is to empower businesses and organizations around the world with radically simple software that teams don’t just tolerate, they love.

While it’s no secret that the productivity category is filled with longstanding contenders, we’re confident that as more teams try our revolutionary approach to task and project management, they’ll realize there’s a better way. 






Founded at the tail end of a global pandemic that redefined work around the world, there’s never been a greater need to engage employees. Globally, businesses are facing new challenges as they struggle to maintain productivity without the benefits of in-person interaction.

As a hybrid team ourselves, we know this problem well. Teams are more efficient using Tatem because we designed it from the ground up with three key goals in mind: make it so simple that a tutorial isn’t even required, include innovative new features that redefine what a task management platform even is, and make the overall experience magical so that people actually enjoy using our product.



“It’s crazy that we spend hours at work each day using products that are tolerable at best. Our vision is to create productivity software that is so loved by customers, they look forward to using it. Caffeinated Capital, Signia Venture Partners, and The House Fund recently led our $2.5 million seed round which provides the capital required to turn our vision into reality.” - Chris LaFerla, Founder & CEO at Tatem

We’re excited to get more teams using Tatem. We’ve seen it completely revolutionize productivity for our customers, and even our own team. We get more done using Tatem, and we’re passionate about unlocking that value for others. We want you to love your work, because when you love your work, you never really work at all. 

If you’re reading this and would like to give [Tatem](https://tatem.com/) a try, do it! We promise you won’t regret it. Here’s to a better, more enjoyable way to work.

At Tatem, we’re building a revolutionary task and project management platform designed to make work fun!

Our First Chapter

We’ve built a full tutorial showing users how to navigate Tatem, faster, using our native keyboard shortcuts. Our goal was to create a video-game-inspired tutorial that felt fun, all on its own. We hope we hit the mark, and that new users will have their first magical encounter with Tatem as they work through it.

The “View” dropdown menu is now entirely keyboard navigable. Press “V” to open the “View” menu, use arrow keys to move the cursor, and press “Enter” to select / un-select properties from tasks (don't worry, you can restore the default view at any time). As a reminder, use “Command + B” to switch between list and grid view instantly (no need to even open the “View” menu).  

The “Create Task” modal has also received the full keyboard navigation treatment. Users can now press “Tab” and “Shift Tab” to cycle forwards and backwards through each item on the “Create Task” modal. To select / deselect each item, simply press “Enter.” Finally, all Tatem keyboard shortcuts now work within the “Create Task” modal as well (”A” for Assignee, “Shift S” for Status, “P” for Priority, etc).

Keyboard Navigation Updates

Command K, welcome. We’ve been hard at work rebuilding our command menu infrastructure to accommodate the progress we’ve made with keyboard navigation over the past several weeks. Now, every. single. action. can. be. done. using.... Command K!

Ok, that was too many periods, but we really wanted to emphasize what a huge step this is. Want to assign a task? Copy a task’s URL? Copy a task’s ID number? Change the priority for multiple tasks at once? Search for the task you created last week, but can’t find? Switch to dark mode? Or, any other action in Tatem? You can do it, in seconds, with Command K. 

In addition to reworking the Command K functionality, we’ve also redesigned the UI for the command menu itself. As with everything we do, we strove to make it as beautiful as it is simple.

Command K

Public and private teams and projects are finally here! We observed a clear pain point that existed when users tried to invite their organization to their Tatem workspace. Further, users struggled to add teammates to their teams and projects within Tatem. Now, we’ve designed a seamless, simple, and secure permissions system for organizations large and small.

For public teams and projects, workspace members can join without approval. For private teams and projects, workspace members can request to join, but must be approved by an existing team or project member prior to being accepted. We even support private tasks for those that want to add personal or non-work-related tasks to their organization’s workspace, privately.

Finally, we’ve added a new “Browse Teams” menu which allows workspace members to view and join teams (or request to join, if the team is private). Collaboration is in our DNA, and we’re excited to continue redefining what simplicity means for collaborative tools.

Public and Private Teams and Projects

2 releases in 2 days? You better believe it. Notifications 3.0 is here, and it’s a huge improvement over our prior iteration. Notifications are now split into Unread and Read. Users can press "tab" or "shift + tab" to move between the split inboxes, replicating the functionality we have for moving between task status splits. Unread notifications are visually differentiated from Read notifications by a dot indicator on the left side, which will be familiar to Superhuman users. To make the process of viewing Unread notifications smooth and seamless, there’s a trigger which prevents Notifications from moving to Read from Unread until the user moves to a new notification split or reloads the page.

Notifications 3.0

Say goodbye to scary-looking Tatem URLs with long, random, unique ids. Today, we’re excited to launch completely overhauled URL paths, which clearly indicate: the workspace a user is in, where a user is at in the product, and which task a user is viewing. 

As an example, a hypothetical task URL is now: 

app.tatem.com/workspace/tasks/task-number/task-name

. Not only does this make product navigation much clearer for all users, but sharing task links with your team (or other collaborators) is now 10x better as well.

Finally, to make this possible, each workspace name is now unique and selected during onboarding. Time to claim your Tatem workspace!

URL Paths

This past week, we spent most of our energy making small performance improvements, squashing bugs, and improving Tatem’s core user experience. There are still some rough edges within the product, but we’re hard at work creating a seamless, magical experience. 

Performance Improvements

We updated all dropdown menus throughout the product to new, universally styled components. This provides a much cleaner, more cohesive experience for users on Tatem. The new dropdown menu applies to: tags, tasks, sort, filter, view, quick edit, resources, task menu dropdowns, and all other dropdowns within Tatem.

Additionally, we further iterated the invite modal from last week. This continues our focus on making the process of joining and inviting members to Tatem a delightful experience.

Universal Dropdowns

We’ve heard loud and clear from users that the process of inviting members to a workspace, team, and/or project has been a poor user experience; causing enormous complexity. In our latest update, we clarified the hierarchy of workspaces, teams, projects, and tasks within the product so that users understand the differences between these components. Further, we’ve completely redesigned each step a user takes when joining a workspace, from creating a team and adding members, to creating a project, and more! While there's still room for improvement, we’re excited to present a much more seamless invite experience for users.

Seamless Invitation Process

We added an archive this week, which continues our recent focus on performance. This addresses the slowdown that occurs when there are hundreds (or thousands) of tasks in a single, scrollable page. The archive solves this problem at the root cause by preventing large groups of tasks from aggregating within the “Done” or “Trash” statuses. Instead, tasks are now automatically archived 14 days after completion. 

We've also removed the "Trash" status entirely. Now, after deleting a task, the task is moved into the “Recently Deleted” section of the archive. It will remain there for 14 days before being permanently deleted. To access the archive, merely go to the status bar and click on the trash can icon which has a tooltip clearly labeling it as the “Archive.” 

Performance 1.0

Our full marketing page redesign solved two big problems for us. First, our website is objectively better and has been a huge hit with everyone we’ve gotten feedback from. Second, we’re finally not ashamed to tell our friends and family that we work at Tatem. The prior website was so non-representative of our brand, product, and vision, that we would cringe whenever someone we knew asked for a link to Tatem. This week, we’re expanding on our redesigned website by launching several new marketing pages:

New Marketing Pages

They. are. finally. here. Tatem’s revamped marketing pages are now live. For the past month, we stopped shipping weekly updates and releases to our public website as we worked to fully redesign our external website. To be honest, we've been rather ashamed of our initial marketing pages. They served their purpose, helping us to gain early learnings, but our website certainly did not represent the brand we are building. That said, it’s never too early to launch but it can definitely be too late. So, thank you though for sticking with us through the earliest of days. We hope you love Tatem’s new website as much as we do.

Updated Marketing Pages

Previously, if a user navigated Tatem via arrow keys and added one of the tasks to the multi-select list by pressing “X” on their keyboard, the task would be highlighted in a light shade of blue. However, if they continued to navigate via arrow keys and selected other tasks this way, the user would no longer be able to determine which task was currently selected. To fix this, we've added navigation-specific visual feedback throughout the entire product. Now, there is a monochromatic line that outlines wherever the cursor is.

The multi-select modal has been visually updated, and now includes added functionality for a user to change the associated project for multiple tasks simultaneously. Additionally, now a user can press the “Command” button on the multi-select modal or press “Command + K” via their keyboard when multiple tasks are selected for bulk actions such as changing assignee, priority, or status.

Navigation Visual Feedback

One large piece of feedback we’ve received is that users new to Tatem are unclear what to do when going to certain pages in our product for the first time. To solve this, we've now added tutorial messages to empty pages. This way, new and existing users alike will always know exactly what they should do next. Now, if a user accesses any page within Tatem, and there is no content, there is a clear message explaining what the page is and what they should (or could) do next. Simplicity is a core value for us, and we’re constantly working to make software that is as powerful as it is approachable.

We've changed the styling of all modals throughout the product. Now, all modals have a beautiful frosted background which covers everything behind the modal, while still providing a glimpse of the product behind. The copy on all modals has also been updated to be more consistent with the rest of our product marketing.

Tags have been grouped together into editable buckets. Previously, there was no way to relate tags to one another. Now, users can select, edit, and/or create tag options directly within the “Add Tags” dropdown. Selecting a tag (or tags) to add to a task has also been greatly simplified as the revised dropdown now presents a clear hierarchy of tag groups → individual tags. As an added bonus, it’s now possible to add multiple tags to a single task. After selecting a tag, the “Add Tags” dropdown re-appears to add another tag.

We’ve added a back button throughout the product that appears when it’s needed, and hides when it’s not. It’s minimal, beautiful, and provides an incredible experience for navigating Tatem, especially to those who are new to our product. Give it a try!

Empty Page Tutorials

Without further ado, we are pleased to present the first (public) iteration of Tatem! It’s impossible to individually list out each item that was changed as every portion of the product has now been visually updated. So, go take take a look at the product instead and let us know what you think! Below we'll highlight a couple standouts.

There is now a separate modal, and entire experience, for creating tasks. Previously, when a user clicked “Create Task,” the entire task modal would open. Now, a “quick view” create task modal opens which only includes functionality relevant to creating a new task. This provides a cleaner, simpler, and faster experience.

The task modal itself has been completely redesigned. It is now a half-screen modal which is uniform throughout the product (when opening an existing task in list view, grid view, or within the notifications page for example, the same task modal opens everywhere). Additionally, there are now fewer buttons and dropdowns to make navigating a task more intuitive. Finally, we’ve also embedded even more keyboard shortcuts into tasks. Users can now enjoy navigating tasks entirely via keyboard.

The left navigation panel has been completely restructured in terms of both functionality and design. We once again reduced the number of links to further simplify our product, and also majorly overhauled the design.

One of the most noticeable updates we’ve made is to Tatem’s Teams and Projects pages. The layout was completely restructured, with a few entirely new additions (like project status, for instance), and the design has been entirely redone as well. One of the largest experience upgrades is to how users are invited. Instead of having to add new workspace members first to the workspace and then again to a team or project, members can now be conveniently added directly to a team or project.

Last but not least, all settings-related pages have been completely overhauled. The layout is much more intuitive and each sub-page is organized to provide clarity on where to find certain settings or options (e.g. “Appearance” and “Customization” have been separated into individual tabs. The former is dedicated to visual appearance settings related for an individual user's Tatem instance, and the latter is dedicated to customization settings for an entire organization's workspace. Within the new “Billing” page, usage metrics are now visible which bring added clarity to pricing and upgrades.

Full Redesign

Our team has been hard at work re-building notifications from the ground up. Notifications now have their own, individual page (section) listed in the left-navigation panel. We’ve made the notifications page look, and function, very similarly to tasks so that it’s only necessary for users to learn a single behavior for navigating objects in Tatem. Arrow key navigation, enter to open, J / K navigation to move down / up while a task is open, and escape to close all work for notifications, just like tasks. This is an enormous UX improvement for a core portion of our product. That said, we weren't able to include everything we wanted to in this update, so expect to see another update to notifications in the coming weeks.

notifications-2.0

Notifications 2.0

Keyboard navigation is a central pillar of our product, and we continue to dedicate time to adding functionality for those who are interested in moving through Tatem as fast as possible, or simply prefer their keyboard to their mouse. To make it easier for new users to find, learn, and use shortcuts, we have upgraded all tooltips throughout the product. It is now very clear whether an item has a shortcut, what that shortcut does, and how to activate that shortcut via keyboard.

Tasks are now updated across Tatem in real-time! Comments, status changes, task edits, and anything else task related will now be immediately updated for other members of a workspace. This is a huge upgrade! For example, it is now possible for two workspace members to have a concurrent conversation within a task’s comment section.

Users can now specify which task items they would like to see while browsing tasks in list or grid view. For example, if an individual doesn’t use or find value in seeing task numbers or labels, they can hide those items from their view.  And, in a matter of seconds, they can re-add them if they choose.

Revised Tooltip Styling

As we continue to simplify Tatem’s UI, we’ve removed the always-visible text editor from both the description and comment sections. We’ve replaced the fixed rich text editor with a minimalist floating editor in keeping with our new, more modern aesthetic. The floating text editor now opens upon highlighting text (via mouse or keyboard).

We’ve updated both the appearance and functionality of dropdowns throughout the product. From a design standpoint, the appearance has been updated in keeping with the rest of our product. From a functionality perspective, we’ve made all dropdowns navigable via keyboard.

After recently adding task numbers to Tatem, we now are including the ability to sort tasks by their respective task number for added convenience. This way, teams using task numbers as a reference point can adjust their views accordingly.

Floating Text Editor

We have made a small, but nonetheless exciting change: updating all Tatem brand assets. Our logo, wordmark, and favicon have all been updated with a more modern and streamlined style. The two objects in our logo have also been re-ordered to better emphasize our logo, which will now be used on its own within our marketing materials and product to represent our brand. Finally, our brand colors have been been greatly refined. Tatem is now primarily monochromatic.

We’re happy to share that new keyboard shortcuts have been added since our last update.

Updated Brand Assets (Logo, Wordmark, Favicon, and Colors)

The @ dropdown menu was one of the first features we built, and it was definitely in need of a refresh. Now, when a user enters the @ symbol within the description or comment section of a task, it opens a simple menu which includes both users and tasks to mention (reference). Users can navigate the menu with both their mouse or keyboard, and the interactions have been updated to ensure a quick and responsive experience.

Task numbers have been requested by several users, and they are now live! Tasks created outside of a team are labeled with the first letter of the workspace name and then a 3-digit identifier. As an example, the first task created in our Tatem workspace was: T-001. Tasks created within a team are labeled with the first three letters of the team name and then a 3-digit identifier. For example, the first task created in our Tatem team was: TAT-001.

mentions-and-task-numbers

Mentions and Task Numbers

We have received so many requests for recurring tasks, which makes us incredibly excited to announce that they are now live on Tatem! Users have the ability to set a daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly recurrence for tasks. And, for additional flexibility, users can also set custom recurrences in case a task needs to recur every 17th Monday, for example.

To create an even more seamless navigation experience, we’ve added additional keyboard shortcuts. Soon, every feature in the product will have an accompanying keyboard shortcut, so that users who prefer a keyboard over a mouse will have an incredible experience. Lookout @Superhuman, we’re coming.

Recurring Tasks

For a Quick View on tasks, users can simply hover over a task with their mouse (or navigate to a task with their keyboard) and press and hold the Space Bar. This will toggle a small task modal to appear at the top-right of the screen providing info on the task without fully opening the task. If a user clicks the Space Bar, it will toggle the Quick View for any task hovered / selected until the user clicks the Space Bar again.

Based on (a lot of) user feedback, we’ve created completely new UX flows for creating teams and projects, as well as new user onboarding.

The invite modal for new team members has been redesigned. We’ve added additional functionality (user’s can now select which team new users should be invited to), and an improved typing experience (emails are now recognized after hitting the space bar, and it will flag errors if the email is already associated with an active user in the workspace). Additionally, users can now add several users at once by entering multiple.

We’ve updated how user permissions work within Tatem, which makes adding members to teams and projects much easier.

Quick View

We’ve been busy (and are still busy) building out keyboard shortcuts! As of now, many of them are live and users can do virtually anything in Tatem with just a few keyboard strokes. Check out the full list of shortcuts in the bottom, left-hand corner of the product or by toggling Shift /.

Users can now easily navigate their way through tasks using Tab to move forward through status buckets (e.g. “Idea” to “To Do”) or Shift Tab to move backwards (e.g. “Done” to “Review”). Then, the user can navigate using the up / down / right / left arrow keys and open a task with Enter or go back / close the task with Esc.

To help teach users about our new keyboard shortcuts, tooltips are now listed on the top or left-hand navigation menus. Curious what the shortcut is to go to the “Projects” page? Simply hover over it to reveal the keyboard shortcut, G → P.

Keyboard Shortcut Updates

We’re excited to announce that users can now drag and drop tasks to rearrange them, or to move tasks to a new status bucket (e.g. “Doing” or “Done”)! This has been one of our most requested features.

In addition to drag and drop, users can also now add tasks to a list. They can do this by:

To accommodate the new drag and drop feature, we’ve locked the vertical positioning of the navigation bar. This way, users can still move tasks between status buckets with drag and drop while scrolled down the page.

Drag and Drop / Add to List

Our referral and account pages have been updated with much simpler and cleaner layouts. Check them out!

We have updated the styling for attachments on tasks, making them much more noticeable. In-app file viewing is not yet live, but it’s on the roadmap and will be coming shortly.

Referral and Account Page Updates

Users can now duplicate tasks (with, or without the attached comments of the original task). This can be toggled with the CMD Shift Y keyboard shortcut, or by selecting it from the task’s options dropdown.

After many, many requests to update the onboarding flow for new Tatem users, we’re excited to announce that it’s now much simpler and easier to get through.

Similarly, the forgot password flow has now been updated, making it much easier for users to reset their password.

Duplicate Tasks

Users can now unsubscribe from receiving notifications on tasks. This enables users to see the notifications they want, and skip the notifications they don’t want.

We’ve improved the user experience for those on Firefox. While there is still a ways to go before the Tatem experience on Firefox (or any browser) is perfect, this is a huge step in the right direction.

Users asked for an easier way to edit the “Category” tag dropdown options, now it’s live. Users can simply navigate to the bottom of the category tag dropdown and select “Edit Options.”

Subscribe / Unsubscribe from Notifications

Users shared that the task title section was easily overlooked, and as a result, they often entered the task’s title in the description. In our latest update, we fixed this by making it easy to find and delineate sections. Additionally, when a user creates a new task, the cursor autofocuses to the task’s title. Check it out!

We updated the delete modal so that users have the ability to confirm / cancel their decision to delete a task, project, or team. This way, no tasks are accidentally deleted, which occurred frequently with our initial single-click-to-delete functionality.

Users can now include a unicode arrow in the description or comment section by typing "—>" or "->". We even support left-facing arrows by typing “<-”.

Task Title Autofocus

One of our most requested features is now live! Users have the ability to customize task categories. This enables teams to tailor Tatem to their specific use case. If new category titles are required (e.g. department, customer name, client file, team member, etc.) users have the option to change them.

In addition to custom categories, users can edit the category colors; we’ve even provided the ability to create new colors with hex codes!

Users can now respond to task comments with emojis! Spoiler alert: in a future update, we’ll allow users to quickly add emojis into a description or comment with the “:emoji” functionality. 

Added notification which alerts teams when a new user joins their workspace

Created method to delete members from a team by hovering over their user icon and clicking “x”

Fixed bug where tasks with no category would appear when filtering to a specific category

Custom Categories

We’ve completely rebuilt the way that notifications and status updates (on tasks) are generated for users. Originally, there were a lot of structural inefficiencies and limitations to how these were designed. We wanted to provide a better experience for our users, so we essentially started from scratch. Now, notifications and status updates are consistently generated, MECE, and quick to read at a glance.

A big piece of feedback we received from users was that they weren’t sure if their changes on a task had been saved or not. More specifically, when a new user created a task, they didn’t feel confident that it had been saved. As a result, we built an automated notifier on tasks which lets users know changes are saved.

As touched on in our last release, users quickly provided feedback that they would like to see the Comments and Changelog (FKA “Task Log”) sections on a task split apart. Just a week later and we’ve already made the change. Now, there are separate sections on tasks for comments and status updates.

Added a tooltip on comments with likes so users can see who liked the comment

Included ability for users to change the name of projects within “Member Permission”

Created individual reset buttons for filters so users don’t need to always fully reset their filter options

Revised how attachments look and feel when added to a task to better align with our design

Fixed a bug where hitting Command + Enter within the Comments section would add a row

Removed a big bug in the onboarding flow which took users to a prior version of our onboarding funnel

Notifications and Status Bar Update

We’ve re-structured our grid to better take advantage of screen real estate on large monitors. Now, our product scales visually without including large white bars on the sides of the display. This is a big update for those who use external monitors, as our previous grid produced a less-than-ideal experience.

In addition to better utilizing screen real estate on laptops and desktops, we are excited to announce that our product is now fully responsive across mobile and tablet devices. This is a huge push, and ensures that Tatem users are truly able to get their work done anywhere, directly on mobile web. No app required. 

The comment and automated status update section on our tasks has been redesigned. Adding context, replying to a colleague’s question, or tagging a teammate are now joyful, modern experiences. Based on initial feedback, it appears that users want to see the comments and automated status updates split into their own sections. We’ll push this change in a future update.

Added the ability for a user to filter by “None” for each option so users can more easily find unassigned tasks, untagged tasks, etc.

Updated sort functionality to include the ability to sort by ascending or descending (the current selection is denoted by the up / down arrow next to the selected sort option in the dropdown)

Created a “First Task” for all new users, which will serve as the first iteration of our tutorial

Removed four different UI bugs which impacted the styling of various components

Full Width Grid

Welcome to our first release note! We’re excited to highlight the many new features, updates, improvements, and fixes that we’ll be rolling out. Now that the product is powering a growing number of users, we want to keep you up to date as we build Tatem.

In addition to launching releases, we also are publishing our first blog post. While releases will be entirely dedicated to product updates, our blog will be used to highlight general business announcements, thought-pieces from our founder and team, and productivity best practices. Check out our first post announcing Tatem and our seed round.

Users can now submit feedback directly from the product by navigating to our search bar, clicking into the search modal, and then clicking the “text icon” bubble to the left of the exit button OR just searching for “feedback” and then clicking “Submit feedback or suggestions to our team.” This can be used for suggesting new features, requesting integrations, or general feedback and thoughts. The more feedback the better, so please let us know what you think.

Updated styling for tasks (both grid and list view)

Standardized font size for a more uniform design system and user interface

Restyled due date and calendar functionality to be more intuitive

Redesigned task modal in keeping with our new design

Iterated empty states for new users (more coming soon)

Added functionality for due date tags to turn red if the task is overdue

Created separate category for pending users on the account page

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