Breaking Down Walls
A look at the latest integrations for new.space
Last week, I mentioned that the team shipped a big (I’m talking huge) update to new.space for iOS. In this series, I’m breaking down a new aspect of this update each week and doing a deep dive on what is fresh and worth checking out. In today’s post, we are talking all about the integrations that are available for new.space for web and new.space for iOS.
There are five services added as integrations in this banger of an update, and we are going to focus on three of them today: GitHub, Figma, and Slack. We use each of these services at Shareup to coordinate, design, and build new.space. Let’s look at what each integration does, and how we’ve been using them to be more effective in our daily workflow.
Getting more from GitHub
We love GitHub. It is a staple piece of software that we use to manage all our code. Before building the integration for GitHub into new.space, adding a pull request link to a project did not render a particularly useful card. We still added the links to keep track of things, but the status of a pull request still had to be inspected manually—which meant that we ended up just keeping the tab open, which is the exact opposite goal of new.space.
With this integration into new.space, you can see the status of a pull request right from the grid view. Opening the details of the card now also yields extra info about who opened it, any tags and lots of other info. We use this integration every day in our various project Spaces to help us keep tabs on what the status of work—try it out and let us know how you are using it! To read more about this integration, check it out in the GitHub marketplace
Focusing with Figma
Figma is a fantastic product. We use Figma to design every aspect of new.space, and with the ability to work cooperatively in realtime, it is an indispensable tool in our workflow. We built the new.space integration for Figma because we found that sharing artboard links do not generate particularly useful previews (you might spot a pattern emerging here).
With the Figma integration for new.space, your links to a specific artboard will show that artboard as the preview, instead of the thumbnail of the project overview. Stay tuned for more updates here on how to give and receive feedback on the work that you share.
Seeing into Slack
Our team organizes, shares, and collaborates on most work we do that isn’t code or design right within new.space. Sometimes, however, we just need to have a quick back and forth chat to hash out details and figure things out. For moments like these, we use Slack to communicate. Our projects are organized into channels, and with the Slack integration for new.space, we now put a special new chat card right within the Space as well! This is great for quickly scanning what is new, or to pick up context from where you left off without getting distracted by whatever else might be going on in Slack. Right now the integration is read-only, we’d love to hear how you are using and what features you would like to see added here.
You said there were five integrations…
I mentioned at the start of this post that there are five integrations that launched with this update. Today we just covered the first three, and in next week’s post we’ll be doing a deep dive into Brainstorms—an exciting new type of card we’ve added to new.space that has completely changed how we work with content in our Spaces. Remember, these three integrations mentioned here are available right now for new.space on the web and for new.space for iOS. You can use them with your team today, completely for free. All you need is a free new.space account to get started. As we continue this series, if you are thinking of services you would love to see added as future integrations, let us know in the comments.
As always, thanks for reading and happy sharing!