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We're super happy to kickoff the week with some exciting new features and improvements to make your async workflows more seamless!
Add in-context feedback while recording
While you’re recording, you can now add in-context comments to help you flag critical moments in the video to your team members.
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Just click on "Add comments" and select an area of the screen to start commenting.
Mention someone in a message
Mentions are a direct way to notify people of something that needs their attention. If you mention them, they will receive a notifications.
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Shortcuts
If you're a keyboard shortcut person, shortcuts are now available in Claap. Just click on the help icon to quickly access the list.
Some of our favorites:
- Record new claap: N
- Share claap: S
- Add full screen comment: C
- Increase playback rate: Shift + ⬆️
- Add in-context comment during recording: CTRL + Shift + C
Autopause on comments
You now have the option to choose if you want the video to pause on comments.
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Text formatting
Text formatting is now live with the following shortcuts:
- Bold: command + B
- Italic: command + I
- Code block : Shift + Ctrl + \
- Heading: Shift + Ctrl + 1 (or 2 or 3)
- Quote block: >
- Ordered list
- Bulleted list
Topic Examples
When creating a new workspace, you now have access to a list of topics with some examples already recorded for inspiration.
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Key Improvements
- Improve public link configuration: when someone creates a claap in a topic where the public link is off, then the claap's public link is off.
- Add pending invite state for pending invite users in the share popin.
- Reverse the shortcuts to post a comment: CMD + ENTER to post, SHIT + ENTER or ENTER to jump a line.
- Make the '+' button in the top bar more explicit.
- Add toaster when trying to sign in with email when you signed up with Google before.
- Add CTA in the No Claap State page.
- Improve visibility of the Resolve feature
- "Not optimized for mobile" popin on mobile
Key fixes
- Allow copy pasting in the comments in the lateral bar
- Edit comment didn't work in some cases
- Misalignement in the description field
- Problem with notification tag on comments: users should not see notifications once they've replied to a thread.
- New claap email: emails were sent when you start a recording (clicking on Record claap in the popup) instead of when you save the claap.
- Guests should not see the '+' to add claaps on the direct claap section
- Player was broken when rewatching a video
- Remove the "+" button in the starred section in the lateral bar
- Auto-pause on comment didn't released the comment thread in some cases
- Problem with comment counter‍
- Fix the crash happening when calling the chrome allow permissions popin twice