Beams 0.61

Subscription View X App Store

Under settings > Subscription View > App store monthly - yearly subscription purchase option

Implement upgrade during onboarding for app store release

Improvements

Don't send reflection/goal reminders when mac is in Focus Mode

Settings > Focus > Show/hide option for timer countdown during focus session

Bugfix

MacOS Sequioa does not allow shortcuts with option key, we'll use command & shift keys

Shown default browsers don't reflect reality at initial setup. beams sets the first browser (i.e. Arc) alphabetically. Fixed as setting user's default browser

Beams 0.60

Unread Emails

Connect email if not integrated (only if there are attendees for a meeting)

Expand and collapse unread emails grouped by user email

Bugfix

Improvement on zoom native app url converting logic

if an account becomes inaccessible show a notification dot on settings button

Improvements

Add a logout button on the menu when onboarding is not completed

Beams 0.59

Onboarding Flow

Remember user's email when session is expired.

Use beams step with menu interaction and shortcuts.

Focus step > focus calendar selection is more prominent now

Bugfix

Ignore focus event blocker for calendar conflict

Insights (x) count is wrong

Meeting reminders time is wrong when computer wakes up first time

If onboarding is not completed properly user can not see the event in action bar

Improvements

If meeting does not have a meetings link or attendees, no agenda warning should not be shown

Do not show goal and reflection reminder if user is in focus mode

Fix: Insights (x) count is wrong

Beams 0.58

Onboarding Flow X User Profile

User's name, role, department can be entered in the first step of onboarding.

During onboarding, don't show action bar suggestions other than google calendar, email integration setup.

During onboarding, ignore done for the day layout.

Improvements

Fix: Calendar account alert horizontal padding issue

Implement stats and demo tool tip as in-view instead of a popover

Update color of question mark button on onboarding.

Beams 0.57

Unread emails X Meetings (Gmail API)

If there is an approaching meeting within the meeting reminder you can see if there is any unread email from the organizer or the participant.

Within the event detail you can see unread emails for the event.

You can go to settings > google > give email access to use this feature.

Beams 0.56

Email Integration

During onboarding after connecting a google account, you can give permission to email API.

Under Preferences > Integrations > Google > You can give permissions to email API

User can connect calendar and/or email for the same account.

Beams 0.55

Onboarding Improvements

Focus Step: Same window views for focus tooltip instead of popover for better state management

Bugfix

Set last shown time as now to dismiss daily focus suggestion

Show done for the day card in menu only if there is no ongoing-upcoming meetings for the day

If user closes the reflection reminder do not show it for the same day again

Beams 0.54.1

BugFix

Fix: Accepted event shows as not responded in meeting reminder & insights

Beams 0.54

Show/Hide Event Types

You can now choose to show or hide 3 new type of events on beams menu:

Events that span multiple days

Events that tentatively accepted

Out-of-office events

Beams 0.53.2

Bugfix

Stats button is not launching the webapp

Beams 0.53.1

Bugfix

User profile fetch result is not processed after calendar integration

Beams 0.53

Daily Goals X Reflection

You can open the reflection card any time by clicking on 'Reflect on your day' below today's event list.

beams opens the reflection card automatically after your working hours or after the last event of the day.

Improvements

Implement dark mode for notification popover

End focus before logout

Bugfix

Refresh existing browser list on app restart

Exclude current user on attendee number changes

show reflection reminder without opening the menu

duplicate upgradeplantool, accept/decline and sendmagiclink events

Beams 0.52.2

Shortcut fix for >= MacOS 14

Input path parameters can not be passed, using clipboard instead

Beams 0.52.1

Improvements

Prevent multiple calls for event refresh and profile refresh on changes

Firebase token registration on multiple places is unified

beams 0.52

Goal Reminder

Implement goal setting reminder for 10:30 in the morning, unless user already set a goal, or it is not a working day

Under settings > notifications, you can enable/disable goal reminders

Goal X Focus

You can start a focus session for your goal direcly on goal item!

Improvements

Highlight goal background on hover

Animation for goal completion strikethrough

Truncate if the goal is long

Extra space between today list and goals

Remove the arrow icon for the completed goals in the menu list

beams 0.51

Event Updates - in the last 24 hrs

beams informs users when an event is approaching and new attendees are added, participants declined the meeting in the last 24 hours.

You can see updates to an event in the event detail.

On event reminder, we are listing updates/changes happened in the last 24 hours.

Bug fix

Hide tomorrow header title, if user chose to not to see tomorrow

beams 0.50

Multiple Goals

You can enter up to 3 goals every day

When you mark a goal as completed, the goal will be checked off and will be moved to the day view listed by the time it was completed at.

You can enter a new goal (more than 3 goals) after you check off a goal

You can mark a goal within day view as uncompleted: the goal will be listed back in goal view

Design Improvements

For buttons implement hover and pressed states

Implement custom designs for focus menu and action view buttons

beams 0.49

Accept / Decline Events

You can accept/decline events on event detail view if the participation status is pending or maybe.

On meeting reminder view, accept - decline actions are added in insights section.

If you decline, meeting reminder is dismissed

Improvements

Font weight is updated as medium

Button hover/pressed/disabled state color and shadow improvements

White scale meeting app icon color for primary buttons

BugFix

fix: menu automatically opens once reminder view is clicked

beams 0.48

beams on Dock

beams icon was getting lost on mac menu bar. You can have beams permanently on dock.

You can remove beams from dock under settings > preferences

By having beams on dock: you can bring and open beams on menu bar by clicking the beams icon on dock or command-tab to navigate within open applications and select beams

If beams gets invisible throughout the day, once it is detected will be brought to the menu bar

beams app menu on left side of mac menu bar to open settings and help

Event insights

beams gives insights about the upcoming meeting on meeting reminder and event detail screens

Insights: If meeting has no agenda, if user didn't accept the meeting, if majority of the attendees didn't accept the meeting

Performance & Improvements

Prevent multiple profile update calls

Prevent multi refer a friend calls

Beams 0.47

Reflection Reminder

If user already did reflection for the day, reminder will not be shown

Reflection reminder should be only send on working days at the end of the work day

Clean and reset reflection reminder at midnight/when they changed

Improvements

Start app updater on every app launch (before it was started only if user is logged in)

Performance: user data initialization, change listeners and date converters are improved

Bugfix

fix: Unnecessary user profile calls triggered when focus duration is changed

If beams macOS notifications are not set, show notification prompt on settings > mac preferences

Beams 0.46

Custom Sound Notifications

Implement sound for refrection & meeting notification

Implement playing focus sound on break start, break end and focus end

Under Settings > Notifications you can enable/disable and choose sounds

Improvements

When computer wakes up open beams menu.

Under Settings > Preferences > Start up, you can enable/disable auto-open beams menu.

Goal is auto-saved when enter key is clicked or inactive keyboard for > 3 seconds.

Goal view paddings are decreased

Bugfix

When the calendar id is the same multiple popover is shown

Beams 0.45

Custom Notification

Reflect your day notification at the end of the work day

You can enable/disable reflection notification under settings.

Alternatively you can copy your referral link and share directly.

Disappear notifications in 10 mins if not interacted.

If user already joined a call, don't show meeting notification.

If user has meeting notification set as shown at start of a call, don't show auto-join button.

Improvements

Hover effect on menu buttons

Goal input view cursor should not be active when menu is opened

Custom url text field for adhoc meetings

Beams 0.44

Referral Program

You can refer your friends and colleagues, once they sign up and use beams you will get free access to pro plan.

On Settings > Refer a Friend page, you can send an invite by entering an email.

Alternatively you can copy your referral link and share directly.

You can use pre-written email and tweet text to share your referral link via mail & twitter.

BugFix

Bug: Goal of the day box covers hover states

Beams 0.43

Belated Focus Tour

If Focus walkthrough was skipped during onboarding, we will show it in the following days.

Improvements

Firebase Framework Update

BugFix

User setting update was causing crash

Settings: focus duration input field is always 15m

Beams 0.42

Settings: Feedback Screen

Send email to support

Link to feature request page

Feature Suggestions

On action bar, new feature and set up completion suggestions will be shown such as: Mac DND mode, Connecting a Slack workspace, Updating the app version

Onboarding

Stats button tool tip after onboarding is completed

Improvements

Goal reset at the end of the day

Beams 0.41

Daily Goal

You can add your daily goal on menu bar

Once you completed your goal you can check it off

Improvements

Settings screen remove unnecessary API call

Beams 0.40

Business Plan

Users can see their plan under settings > See my plan

On calendar view, free users will see an Upgrade Plan button to redirect to plan page

When a user wants to subscribe to another calendar, if user is on free plan, they will see a upgrade plan action

Mac DND X Onboarding

Users will be able to set mac dnd shortcut on onboarding / notifications step

Improvements

Remove unused ad hoc meeting options

Close calendar dropdown, once another dropdown is open on settings pages

Bugfix

Focus: skip breaks if break is not selected by user for custom time and until next meeting

Beams 0.39

Reflection View X Beams Menu

Reflect on your day manually any time via beams menu

Daily score is shown on the stats button

Improvements

Checkbox check icon improvement

Sending one reflection for the same day, fetch existing reflection for the day

Bugfix

Focus popup ending animation crash

Beams 0.38

Working Hours

Done for the day and done for the week is implemented based on user's custom working hours

Daily focus suggestions will be shown within user's custom working hours.

Custom beams notification: Auto-join meetings

Make the beams notification floating at top

If there is no meeting link don't show notification

Added: Event title, custom meeting emojis

Dark mode: border is removed

Bugfix

Wrong browser is launched on meeting launch

Beams 0.37

Custom beams notification: Auto-join meetings

At the chosen time, there is no MacOS notification anymore. Instead there is a custom beams join call pop-up. It contains:

option to "Auto-join at start" (primary CTA) > then the video link opens automatically at the moment of the start of the meeting.

option to "Join now" (secondary CTA) > then the video link opens now

Bugfix

Time of the events in the event dropdown is different than local computer time when user changes timezone

Beams 0.36

Done for the Day/Week: Tips & Quotes

At the end of the day you can see the reflection view

You can enter your mood and a sentence to track your mood

Improvements

Add underlining for hover and pressed states to TertiaryButton

Restore Default Paste Behaviour to Textfields

Implementation for computer 24-h & beams timeformat

Change stats icon

Sentry logger instead of using mixpanel for nonfatal errors

Beams 0.35

Bugfix

Remote date formatting was not working for users with 24-hour formatting disabled and some calendars (Ethiopic, Buddhist etc)

Beams 0.34

MacOS Do Not Disturb Mode On/Off

When you join meetings via beams mac's DND mode will be automaticaly turned on.

When the meeting is over mac's DND mode will be automaticaly turned off.

Improvements

Chime video call icon is added

Close the beams menu window when clicking “See more stats” on mac app

Testable User Defaults

Bugfix

Fix false event tracking on page load

Duration of the daily focus suggestion - blocker should be determined at the moment when the user starts the focus

Close the beams menu window when clicking “See more stats” on mac app

While toggling between focus durations, break duration is not reset correctly

Beams 0.33

Stats X Done for the Day/Week

You will see the daily stats at the end of the day on beams menu

The weekly stats will be shown on beams menu at the end of the week

Shortcuts Settings

Under settings, shortcuts have their own separate section now.

You can set/edit shortcuts for opening beams menu, joining/creating a meeting, starting focus mode

Sharing beams

On Settings side menu > share beams, you can share beams via email or on X formerly, twitter

Improvements

Menu Buttons were not easily clickable - only in the center of the button

Focus break colors and font sizes are improved

Beams 0.32

MacOS Do Not Disturb Mode On/Off

While in focus mode, beams is automatically turning DND on for MacOS >= 12.0

When you pause and/or stop the focus session, DND mode is turned off

You can add beams DND shortcut from Settings Menu > Focus and enable for focus sessions

Focus

Implement calendar color of focus calendar in daily focus suggestion.

Duration of the daily focus suggestion is determined at the moment when the user starts the focus (not before)

Bug Fixes

Menu bar event prioritisation bug: tentative event is prioritised over accepted one

Action bar event prioritisation bug: meeting starting in 10 mins is not shown

Focus bug: session duplication issue

Menu bar icon bug: login/logout buggy status bar title behaviour

Improvements

Onboarding: show shortcut preview when toggle is disabled as well

Beams 0.31

Running Late for a meeting?

You can send an email to participants of a meeting to inform them that you are late.

Daily Focus Suggestion

When you don't have any meetings, beams suggests you 1 time daily focus during the working hours.

Shortcuts & Keystrokes

When you hover onto some buttons with shortcuts/keystores, a tooltip will appear to remind you the shortcuts.

Bug Fixes

beams crashes after focus session ends - during jackpot animation

www. hyperlink not clickable on event details

Improvements

Settings screen has a fixed height size - fixing unseen elements on dropdown list

Close menu after opening stats web page

Menu bar - Overlapping meetings: If both events already started, the event that started most recently should be prioritised

Beams 0.30

Done for the Day

When the user does not have any meetings at the end of the work day (after 18 local time), on beams menu it will appear.

This space will be further used for stats, daily surveys --stay tuned!.

Done for the Week

When the user does not have any meetings for the current day and next day, at the end of the week (after 18 local time Friday till Sunday midnight), on beams menu it will appear.

Bug Fixes

Prioritization for Action Bar Items: Demo meeting should be prioritized

Beams 0.29

Stats & Streaks

Stats button on menu footer view

You can see your weekly meeting distribution in terms of focus, meeting, solo and free time

New Design Library

Settings Views: Slack, Preferences

Retire old design elements (fonts, colors, buttonStyles)

Implementations

Implement key actions for focus start, pause, play, end, close buttons

Focus/meeting action bar indicator line color

Bug Fixes

Menu action view title trim

The shortcuts for Instant Focus & Instant Meeting Creation do not work for me

All day events are shown even though all day is NOT selected

Beams 0.28

New Design Library

Menu Action Views: Focus, Meeting & Demo Event, Invite a friend

Settings Views: Focus, Meetings, Notifications, Menu Bar

fix jackpot animation view color token (dark mode)

Focus

Suggest focus session for personal events

Implementations:

set google meet as default adhoc meeting

Bug Fixes:

last break should not a push notification

Beams 0.27

New Design Library

UI components (Text, Image, Icon, Button) are implemented according to design library

Typography > Fonts are increased for readability

Typography > Colors are defined

Focus Ending Animations

Jackpot animation with restart and dismiss action options

When focus just ended, show the restart button on action bar

Implementations:

Edit/add focus goal after a focus session is started

Focus and event title trimming with a trailing (...) characters

Move 'select focus blocker calendar' also on Settings

Bug Fixes:

Focus time calendar conflict warning even though there is no conflict

Focus menu - unable to type into input fields

focus duration input field is always 15m

Empty menu view when creationDate is null

When using the duration input box, I am unable to add a break

Beams 0.26

Self-Onboarding X Focus Mode

We implemented the focus self-onboarding so that user can go through the focus demo tour with tooltips:
- Start focus > select duration and launch a focus time

Integrate slack

Select a focus calendar

Implementations:

Get the preferences info from user settings on backend
- This will also bring the existing focus session once the app is restarted

Preferences > Focus slider > Add steps on focus duration

Improvements:

Make focus wording consistent on the menu bar, action bar and event title

Bug Fixes:

Multiple user Logged out alerts & login windows issue

Invite a friend: unknown error is replaced with the error description

Unknown user email > login screen > stuck at sending email

Beams 0.25

Onboarding > events step:

New shortcuts defaults are included:

Create ad-hoc meeting: Option + M

Launch instant focus mode: Option + F

Join Demo Event window is implemented instead of a google meet browser link

Implementations:

Add option for time format 24 hrs / 12 hrs to settings

Apple Calendar support is dropped

Improvements:

Settings > Focus screen > text is cut off

add device id for http call on verify-refresh for better error debugging

Beams 0.24

Slack Status X Meetings

1. Click "Settings > Slack > Adjust Slack "in a meeting" settings on web" to launch our webapp
2. Select the calendar(s) you want to see the meetings on your slack status
3. Don't forget to select the option show/hide the meeting title details
Watch your slack status changing during the day automatically

Event Detail View

The detail view is now interactable, you can select and copy text

Links in the event notes/agenda/description are clickable

Beams 0.23

Onboarding Improvements

Hide Demo meeting when no calendars are subscribed.

Calendar and onboarding community step design improvements.

Restyle google calendar rows with loading animation.

Bring onboarding screen to front any time user opens beams menu

Bug Fix & Improvements

Tie demo meeting tooltip to stored value

Newly added/installed browsers were not seen in app, fixed.

Event detail view > popover presentation laggy animation

Beams 0.22

Until Next meeting

beams calculates the best duration until the next meeting and creates a focus session with break options.

if there is an upcoming or ongoing meeting conflicting with the focus session, it warns users with a tooltip and a popup screen.

Bug Fix & Improvements

When user clicks another magic link email, logout current user

Newly added/installed browsers were not seen in app, fixed.

The next label is drawn on top of the dropdown Browser list.

Don't show start focus button on the menu if there is an ongoing focus session

Beams 0.21

New Focus Flow

Focus flow is now embedded in beams menu.

Click Start Focus > Choose the duration, number of cycles and break options

During focus flow, the active session is seen on the action bar and menu bar

When break starts/ends beams notifies you, either with a notification or by simply opening beams menu

Bug Fix & Improvements

Start a focus session if duration at least 1 minute

Increased the mac focus duration as 20 hours

Beams 0.20

Settings > Invite A Friend

Users can invite their friends under settings

Beams 0.19.2

Improvements

Bug Fix

Push notification registration is broken

Beams 0.19.1

Improvements

Memory - color memory improvements

Prevent possible crash on event detail popover

Bug Fix

Hide tooltip and demo event after onboarding

Event detail popover and menu closing issues

Magic links can not launch the app

Beams 0.19

Preferences X Design

Focus mode: Set your focus and break duration defaults and focus shortcut

Preferences: Option to chose light & dark mode theme. Chose to automatically keep beams up to date --> this is also where you can manually check update to the latest version

Calendar: Chose your calendars and add an additional accounts

Slack integration: Connect your Slack workspace to automatically adjust your status and snooze notifications when you are in focus

Bug Fix

No more double events shown

Scenarios where no events are shown are fixed

Beams 0.18.2

Bug Fix

Apple events not shown in the menu

Beams 0.18.1

Improvements

Onboarding steps visuals, color

Onboarding tracking

Beams 0.18

Beams X Self Onboarding 🛳️

Sleek new onboarding screens making our new self-onboarding a seamless experience :sparkles:

Further Improvements

Option not to show all day events

Refresh calendar button on beams window (bottom left)

Slack/GCal icons shown on focus window -only when there is an error on integration

Fixes

Edges in dark mode

No more double events when starting and updating focus mode

Event detail pop over doesn't open unintended anymore

No more meeting notifications from recently deleted events

Beams 0.17

Beams X Invite Friends 🤗

You can invite your friends through the menu bar, so that they can directly start using beams!

Further Improvements

Logout the user automatically when session is expired

Sync cloud communication after first user login

Beams 0.16

Disable start using beams until user subscribed to at least one calendar

Copy changes on calendar set up screens

Beams 0.15

Beams X Google Integration

beams connects with your google calendar directly, changes are reflected right away and synchronization is seamless! 💫

Calendar flow has 2 options: Google or Apple connection

Connect & disconnect google accounts

Subscribe & unsubscribe google calendars

Selecting a google calendar as a focus calendar

Syncing calendar events on air when there is a change on the event(s) or new event is created

Focus events: async responses for slack & google integrations

Further Improvements

Launch at start is fixed

Simplified settings view without calendar settings

Detecting and moving beams into applications folder if it was mislocated

Unify focus mode emojis ✨ -> ☂️

Events started before today, events spanning more than 1 day will be shown as multi day

Daily version check and tracking timer improvements

Beams 0.14.2 - Fix

Fix the crash happening on preferences button click.

Beams 0.14.1 - Quick Fix

Fix the crash happening on event detail html representation.

Beams 0.14

Beams X Design Update

Beams' menu is redesigned with our minimalistic design approach.
Events screen with Today/Tomorrow, Login screens, Calendar Setting are renewed within the menu.

Further Improvements

You can check for software updates under preferences now.

Beams has the option to show/hide the event title on bar when there is more than x minutes to the new meeting. (15/30 mins, 2/4 hours, until midnight options)

Change regular expression to detect zoom links better.

Fix - Action Bar: Join button not always responding to click.

Beams 0.13

Beams X Menu Action Bar

When a meeting with a video call is approaching you will see an action bar on the menu with a join button.

Further Improvements

Native M1 Apple silicon support

Focus start, end, update buttons are improved to prevent multiple server calls.

Beams 0.12

Mac Menu Bar

Beams can now integrate with your slack workspace!

On focus screen, you can set your slack integration up.

Focus X Slack

You can choose to share your focus goal on your slack status.

You can snooze notifications when in focus mode automatically.

The focus sessions are stored on beams servers to make the integration work smoothly!

Further Improvements

Set the process name to beams app so that on activity monitor it can be seen/searched by name.

Mixpanel implementations

Segment implementations

Beams 0.11

Mac Menu Bar

Upcoming event should be prioritized when two parallel meetings

Detect soon starting event and change the status bar icon color for awhile

Prioritize events based on participant status

Limit characters of the event title for menu item to 50

Set done for the day icon as wired logo

Focus

Show focus mode title (sparkle emoji + focus time, or sparkle emoji + goal) when user is in focus mode, instead of the focus event

Make the creation of focus blocker event optional

Wire app icon

Improvements: Open google meet video calls with the selected google meet browser

Fixes: When a Calendar is added on apple calendar - refresh does not work. user has to quit beams and restart to see the list of calendars Refresh event store on first login Setting a calendar for focus event is causing crash

Beams 0.10

User login feature

You can login with your email you subscribed to Beams Beta with.

To make it as smooth as possible we implemented it via a magic link that is sent to your email.

By confirming it, you’re automatically logged in. No password hassle!

Improvement: When you’re done with the meetings for the day, tomorrow’s meeting won’t be shown in the menu bar anymore

Beams 0.9

Beams can be automatically updated now.

We have Check for updates under Beams menu to manually check and update the app.

When the app is launched and regularly, software updates will be checked.

If there is a (only!) critical update, user will be informed to perform the update.

Improvement: Set logo for meetings with around link
Bugfix: Around links are not detected when created in Calendar app