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Launch/Q4 launch plan
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Q4 launch plan
Maya Ortiz · Updated just now · 1/3 tasks done
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Ship the self-serve workspace to every Northwind team by November 14, with onboarding that takes one sitting.
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Open questions:
To-do list
Table
OwnerWorkstreamDue
MessagingOct 30
OnboardingNov 6
Support docsNov 10
This page is live. Switch between Page and Edgeless, tick a to-do, or press M.
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The problem
The doc says one thing. The whiteboard says another.
Ideas start on a whiteboard and end in a document, and somewhere in between they get copied by hand. Three weeks later nobody knows which one is true.
- One page, two views. Write in Page mode, arrange in Edgeless. It's one document, never a copy.
- Diagrams that can't go stale. A block on the canvas is the block in the doc.
- One link to share. Readers get the prose, thinkers get the canvas, both see the latest.
Docs app · Launch spec v7
Launch dateNov 14
Whiteboard app · Launch flow
Launch Nov 1copied by hand · 3 weeks ago
One pagePageEdgelessLaunch · Nov 14 · everywhereEverything on the page
Blocks that write, and blocks that think.
A full block editor and a full whiteboard, sharing one document model. Seven building blocks, all of them on the same page.
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Infinite canvas
Stickies, shapes, connectors, drawings and frames with room for all of it.
Zoom · pan · frame
Databases
Turn a table into a tracker with properties, filters and views.
TitleStatusOwner
Pricing pageDone
OnboardingDoing
Support docsTodo
Launch postDoing
Presentations from frames
Frame parts of the canvas and present them in order. No slide deck to keep in sync.
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Mind maps
Branch an idea with a keystroke and restyle the whole tree at once.
Linked docs and backlinks
Mention a page and it links both ways. Every doc shows who points to it, so knowledge becomes a graph instead of a pile.
Q4 launch planPricing FAQRetro · Sprint 32Sep 25 journalOnboarding flowBacklinks · 4
Live collaboration
See who is on the page, where they are and what they are typing. Comments and history keep the thread.
Ship the self-serve workspace to every Northwind teamMaya by November 14, with onboarding that takes one sittingTheo
Can we say this in the onboarding email too?
Edgeless canvas
Go on, move things around.
This is a working whiteboard. Drag the stickies, add your own, connect them, tidy the board. It is the same feel as the real canvas, in miniature.
Morph demo landed on the first try
Pairing on one canvas sped up review
Too many tabs between doc and board
The spec drifted from the diagram
One page per feature
Offline week?
Theo writes the retro summary
7 elements · 4 connectors
Drag notes and watch the connectors follow. New notes connect to whatever is selected. Double-click to rewrite one.
Connectors that stick
Arrows attach to elements and reroute as you move them.
Frames and groups
Group a region, name it, and present it as a slide.
Pen and shapes
Sketch freely or snap to shapes with text inside.
Docs on the canvas
Drop any page block onto the board and keep editing it.
Block editor
Type a slash. Get a block.
Every piece of a page is a block you can move, convert and link. Click into the doc on the right and type / to see the menu. It is a real editor, so go ahead and write.
- Keyboard all the way. Slash, arrows, Enter. Markdown shortcuts work too.
- Convert, don't retype. Turn a paragraph into a to-do or a heading in place.
- Canvas-ready blocks. A mind map you insert here opens on the canvas in Edgeless.
From scribble to shipped doc
One idea, five moves, zero copies.
Scroll through how a launch plan comes together in Canvyst, from a messy morning to a page the whole company reads.
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Capture
Dump the raw thought into today's journal or throw stickies on a canvas. Speed first, structure later.
Journal · Thu, Sep 25
Pricing page needs a comparison table
Ask Theo: onboarding in one sitting?
Demo idea: morph page into canvas live
EU copy needs legal
Launch!Nov 14?Video
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Arrange
Drag the pieces into clusters, frame them and draw the connections. The shape of the idea shows up on its own.
Edgeless · clustering
Messaging
Onboarding
Pricing tableEU copyOne sittingWalkthrough03
Write
Flip to Page mode. The clusters are already blocks, so the outline writes itself and the prose fills in around it.
Page · Q4 launch plan
Messaging
from canvasLead with the comparison table on the pricing page, and get legal to sign off the EU copy.
Onboarding
from canvasEvery team should finish setup in one sitting, guided by a two-minute walkthrough.
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Review
Bring people in. Live cursors, inline comments and full history mean feedback lands on the exact block it is about.
Review · 3 people on this page
Every team should finish setup in one sitting, guided by a two-minute walkthrough.
Theo Can we promise one sitting if SSO needs IT?
Maya Fair. Changing to “one sitting, once SSO is on”.
Resolved by Maya · edit kept in history
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Share
Share one link. Readers get a clean page, thinkers get the canvas, and presenters play the frames as slides.
Share · Q4 launch plan
Northwind workspaceMembers can editOn
Published linkRead-only, anyone with the linkOff
canvyst.techyst.net/northwind/q4-launchCopy
Local-first sync
Pull the plug. Keep writing.
Your pages live on your device first and sync to the cloud second. Take Maya's laptop offline, tick things off, add a few items, then reconnect and watch both devices converge.
Both devices are live. Edits reach the other side in well under a second.
Launch checklist1/3 done
- Book the venue for launch day
- Draft the press note
- Test the app on the train
Local copy · IndexedDB0 changes waiting
9:41
Launch checklistTheo · phone
- Book the venue for launch day
- Draft the press note
- Test the app on the train
Up to date
Change log#1add#2add#3add#4check
Simulated in your browser. In Canvyst, the same merge runs across every device in your workspace.
Q4 launch plan · live
Ship the self-serve workspace to every Northwind teamMaya by November 14, with onboarding that takes one sittingTheo.
Version history
edited “Open questions”10:42 · Page
moved 3 blocks into the Execution frame10:37 · Edgeless
added the owners table10:05 · Page
created Q4 launch plan from a template09:58 · Page
Restore this versionReal-time collaboration
Everyone on the same block, at the same time.
Presence shows who is here and what they are touching. Comments sit on the exact words they are about. History records every change, in both modes, with a name next to it.
- Live cursors and selections in Page and Edgeless.
- Inline comments that resolve into history instead of vanishing.
- Restore any version of a page, including its canvas layout.
Templates
Never start from a blank canvas.
Start from a page someone already thought through, then make it yours. Save any page as a template for the rest of the workspace.
Weekly sync · Sep 24
Agenda
Decisions
Move launch to Nov 14
Theo owns onboarding
Meeting notes
PageAgenda, decisions and action items that land as to-dos.
Weekly syncs, 1:1s
Offline mode
EditQueueMerge
Product brief
Page + EdgelessProblem, goals and scope in prose, with the user flow on the canvas.
New features
Retro board
EdgelessThree frames, a pile of stickies and a column for actions.
Sprint reviews
Mind map
EdgelessStart from one idea and branch until the shape of it shows.
Brainstorms
Draft
Review
Live
Kanban
PageA database with a board view, statuses and owners.
Content calendars
Thu, Sep 25↳ Q4 launch plan
Journal
PageA page per day, linked to everything you touched.
Personal notes
Who it is for
Same page, different kinds of thinking.
Product teams, classrooms, research groups and one person with a lot of ideas all end up needing the same thing: words and pictures that stay together.
The spec and the flow, finally in one place.
Write the brief as a page, then switch to Edgeless and sketch the user flow around the same blocks. Engineering reads the doc; design works the canvas; nobody updates two tools.
- PRDs with embedded flows and wireframes
- Linked decision logs with backlinks
- Frames that become review slides
Page
Brief · Offline modeProblem: field teams lose edits on flaky Wi-Fi.
Goal: no lost work, ever.
Flow reviewed by design
Edge cases listed
Edgeless
Open docEdit offlineQueueReconnectWhat if both edit?A lesson plan with a whiteboard built in.
Prepare the lesson as a structured page, then teach from the canvas. Students add stickies to a shared frame, and the good ones end up back in the notes.
- Lesson plans with reusable templates
- Class brainstorms on a shared canvas
- Handouts published as read-only pages
Page
Week 6 · PhotosynthesisObjective: explain inputs and outputs.
Warm-up: what does a leaf need?
Diagram labelled
Exit question posted
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Class ideasSunlightWaterCO₂?Glucose + O₂Notes that turn into a map of the field.
Keep sources and quotes in a database, tag them, and lay the same records out on a canvas to see how the ideas cluster. The synthesis doc links back to every source.
- Source databases with custom properties
- Concept maps built from the same notes
- Backlinks from findings to evidence
Page
Synthesis · Remote handoffsThree themes across 14 interviews.
Theme 1: context gets lost in copies.
Quotes tagged
Draft findings memo
Edgeless
HandoffsInterview 04Survey Q3Paper: Lee 2024Versioning painA second brain that also has a whiteboard.
Journal daily, link freely, and open any page as a canvas when a thought needs room. Every page is on your device as well as in the cloud, so it all works offline too.
- Daily journal pages with backlinks
- Tags, collections and full-text search
- Works mid-flight, syncs on landing
Page
Thu, Sep 25Read: local-first software essay.
Idea: map my Q4 goals as a mind map.
Book dentist
Outline the talk
Edgeless
Q4 goalsTalkHealthReadingSide projectThe difference
Two apps and a copy-paste habit,
or one page.
Most teams pay for a docs app and a whiteboard app, then spend their week copying between them. Canvyst puts both on the same page, built from the same blocks.
Separate docs + whiteboard appsCanvyst
Tools to pay forTwo subscriptions, two loginsOne workspace, both modes on every page
Diagram vs. specScreenshots that go staleThe same blocks, live in both views
Finding the latest versionCheck both apps, then ask aroundOne page, always current
FeedbackComments split across two toolsComments on the exact block, in both views
Presenting the planRebuild it as a slide deckPlay canvas frames as slides
Linking ideasLinks that break when things moveBacklinks in both directions
Adding the 40th memberTwo more seats on two invoicesNothing changes
No connectionRead-only, if it loads at allFull editing, merged on reconnect
Sign-inSSO on the enterprise tierSingle sign-on included
Security and control
Half-formed ideas, properly protected.
Whiteboards hold the thinking a company would never publish. Canvyst gives it clear permissions, a full history and encryption throughout.
Single sign-on with OIDCRoles per workspaceFull version historyKeeps working offline
Encrypted in transit and at rest
Pages, canvases and attachments are encrypted on the wire and in storage, and every sync is authenticated.
Workspace permissions
Owners, admins and members per workspace, with published links off by default and controlled by role.
Version history
Every page keeps its history, canvas included. See who changed what and restore any earlier version.
Offline by design
A full local copy on each device means work continues through outages, flights and bad hotel Wi-Fi.
Single sign-on
Sign in through OIDC with the accounts you already manage, so leavers lose access the moment they leave.
Backups and export
Workspaces are backed up nightly and backups are verified by restoring them. Export pages to Markdown, HTML or PDF whenever you like.
FAQ
Questions, answered.
Anything else, write to us. A person from the Canvyst team will answer.
How quickly can our team get started?
Most teams are writing in Canvyst the same day. Create a workspace, invite members with the right roles and start from a template instead of a blank page. We can walk your team through it in a short onboarding session.
What does local-first actually mean?
Every edit is written to a copy on your device first, then synced to the cloud. If the connection drops you keep working at full speed. When it returns, changes from every device merge automatically, using conflict-free data structures rather than “which version do you want to keep?” dialogs.
Are Page and Edgeless two copies of the same doc?
No. They are two views of one set of blocks. Edit a paragraph on the canvas and it is edited in the page, because it is the same paragraph. That is the whole point.
Can we move in from Notion or Markdown?
Yes. Import Markdown files and Notion exports, and export pages to Markdown, HTML or PDF and canvases to images. We run the first migration with you and check the result together.
Can we embed files and other tools?
Yes. Drop images, PDFs and other files into a page or onto the canvas, and embed Figma, YouTube, GitHub and any web link as a live card. Attachments stay with their block in both views.
How does pricing work if it isn't per seat?
Pricing isn't per seat. Inviting the hundredth teammate costs the same as inviting the tenth. Ask us for a quote.
Can we share a page outside the workspace?
Members get roles per workspace. When you choose to, a page can also be published as a read-only link for clients or students. It is off until someone with permission turns it on.
Does it work on phones and desktops?
It runs in any modern browser, including on phones and tablets, and the desktop apps for macOS, Windows and Linux keep a full offline copy of your workspace.
Stop copying the whiteboard into the doc.
Open Canvyst, write a page, press Edgeless and watch the same blocks become a canvas. Your whole team, both ways of thinking, one version of every idea.
Support can cover this if docs ship by Nov 10.