✳️ Sidequest just got better, by popular request: when creating a task for a channel and you are a member of this channel, you can now immediately select an initial assignee, without having to re-enter the task details.

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✳️ Today, we are releasing a major Sidequest update. It comes with a completely redesigned "Create Sidequest" dialog, and by popular request, start dates for tasks. Give it a try in your workspace today!

✳️ This brand new update to our home tab makes Sidequest feel like a whole new app: filter your tasks by status, requester, recipient and more, all 100% inside Slack.

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"I have two kinds of problems, the urgent and the important. The urgent are not important, and the important are never urgent." – that's what Dwight D. Eisenhower said in 1954. We hope he would have liked the new feature we are releasing today: task importance. Out now!

"Don't release new features on Fridays", they said… but what if it's a feature that can save your weekend? So let's do this: Personal task reminders are now available in Sidequest. So before you waste your Sunday worrying about that one task... just snooze it until next week! 🔔

We're excited to be joining Slack Frontiers today to learn more about what's in store for the Slack platform and meet other enthusiastic users and developers! Sounds interesting? You can still participate for free. ➡️ slack.com/frontiers

Need a little bit more space? You can now easily pop and scale all our app dialogs in the Slack desktop app. ↔️

Sidequest has made quite some progress over the last three months, so an update to our 10-minute video tour was really overdue. Still looking for some Friday evening entertainment? Look no further! 🎥 youtu.be/H-VStVZMbQU

Everybody loves a good settings screen! Today, we added a new one to Sidequest, with well thought out options that let you customize Sidequest to your use case. It's waiting for you in your workspace settings. 🧑‍🔧

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Woah, this feels huge: Today, we're releasing Sidequest support for Slack Workflow Builder. Create tasks from a number of exciting triggers. Our favorites: recurring tasks using a schedule and creating tasks from outside Slack through a webhook. 😍

We're always blown away by the incredibly wide range of scenarios Sidequest supports in our customers' workspaces. To reflect this diversity in our UI, you can now customize the task designator in Sidequest. Still missing one? Let us know.

Sometimes, there are jobs that just can't be done alone. This is why, starting today, Sidequest supports assigning a channel-based task to multiple people. 🤜🤛

The more things change, the more they stay the same! Slack has changed the UI for adding Sidequest to a channel, but creating helpdesk channels with Sidequest is still easy as a Friday afternoon. This is how you find your way now: