No good house project happens overnight, so we're here to help you better capture your "In Progress" work. Now, whenever you create or update an issue in Minicastle, you can display the following stages:

• To Do: your backlog of tasks, ideas, plans, and goals

• In Progress

• Done (Woohoo!!)

• Shelved: just take a break or put it on the back-burner, and come back when the time is right

We've also added new sorting options to handle statuses, and all data exports will include your status too. Need more status options? Share your thoughts on our Roadmap, or email [email protected]

This month includes big changes to Inventory and Projects, along with smaller details and cleanup.

Advanced Inventory

Many of you have mentioned that you'd like to use Minicastle to better manage paints, tools, equipment, and more. Now you can! New updates to the Inventory tool include:

• Track items based on where/how you use them

  • For example: Which paint did I use in a particular room? Where is it actually being stored in case I need to do touch-ups?)

• Attach photos so you know what you're looking for

• Include more detail for model/serial numbers, purchase dates, brands, etc.

• Track quantities, units, and costs

• Attach links to save receipts, manuals, how-to videos, and more

Better Projects

Projects help you easily organize issues and enjoy your progress as you complete them. Now you can also:

• See the total time and $$ you've invested into any given project

• See an at-a-glance view of the issue count and overall status

• Add new or existing issues directly to the project (using the "..." menu)

Other Improvements

• Colors should be sharper and easier to read

• Fewer bugs on sign-in and saving

• Better search and sorting options

• More docs and best practices

March was all about getting you ready for a big spring-cleaning season. Here's what's new and improved:

New Features!

1. Give Issues a Scheduled Date: Plan work and make deadlines by setting a Scheduled Date for any Issue

2. New Calendar View: See all of your upcoming Issues in a single-location across all of your homes. Just navigate to the Menu > Calendar.

UI & Interactions

1. Fresh-looking Issues: Issues should now look a little cleaner and sharper, especially on mobile.

2. New Dropdowns: menus across the application should now look sharper and work snappier.

3. Bigger mobile button: Whenever you want to add Issues, Areas, Projects, and more on your mobile phone, you shouldn't have any problem seeing the "Add" button.

4. Dismissable Onboarding checklist: We want to help you get started, then get out of your way.

Content & Docs

1. New Docs and Help Center format! Support documents are now more structured and easier to navigate, with designated content for:

   1. Quick Start

   2. Best Practices

   3. Frequently Asked Questions

   4. And more coming soon...

2. We've also added "Chores" to our Homeowner Guide! This is just the start of recommendations, but chores are a great way to maintain your house on a daily basis.

New Free Plan!

• Homeowners can now enjoy our completely free plan, which includes:

  • 1 house/building

  • Unlimited Issues

  • Unlimited Projects

  • Unlimited Areas

  • Unlimited Inventory

  • Unlimited Co-Owners

  • And more to come...

Finally, we also have a new premium plan called Minicastle Pro!

• The new annual subscription cost is $85 per year

• Existsing customers will continue to pay their original subscription cost indefinitely for as long as they stay customers. We're grateful for your business!

• Referals for any Minicastle Pro subscribers will receive a $50 gift card! Just email [email protected] once you've made a referal. We'll send you your gift card as soon as they subscribe.

Thanks for checking out our changelog - here's everything that improved in February:

Getting Started

1. New onboarding email: get started with clarity with a better email for new users (including your Co-Owners - see below!)

2. New onboarding checklist: in case you miss the onboarding email, now you can also see a new list of key actions to get up-and-running, located right on your dashboard

3. New invite email for Co-Owners: when you invite your Co-Owners, now they'll get a much nicer looking email (with an explanation of what the heck Minicastle is, and next steps)

Issues

1. Added a type field: a better way to start organizing and understanding your Issues

2. Added a field `last_updated`: this lives in the background for now, but you'll see it in our improved Issues interface (coming soon)

More improvements & fixes

• Add Google social login support: sign into Minicastle with just a couple clicks

  • Note: if you've already signed up for Minicastle using your email, you might not immediately see the data associated with your original account. Email us at [email protected] if this happens to you!

• Cleaned up our "Suggestions" experience to give you more real estate in your screen. Don't forget to check-out our 2024 Homeowner's Guide for a full list of suggestions that you can add directly to your own list of issues.