Getting Started with Pragli
A checklist for getting started with Pragli.…
Social Signals #3: Using Google or Outlook Calendar to signal availability
Calendars rule my life. I schedule all my meetings through Google Calendar and make sure that any conversation that I plan to have is captured in an event. It's safe to say that most people these days are pretty similar.But, the second most valuable aspect of my calendar has…
Why I use Calendly to schedule my meetings
Vivek discusses why he's frustrated with the current state of meeting scheduling, and why he uses Calendly to now schedule all of his meetings.…
Social Signals #2: Using Spotify to communicate status in Pragli
We released our Spotify integration a few months ago and have seen high usage from our users. In this post, I’ll discuss how the integration works and evaluate it on the two dimensions that we discussed in our first post: Clarity of Intent (COI) and Invasiveness to Privacy (ITP).…
Social Signals #1: Our framework for adding social signals into Pragli
Social signals are critical for team communication and especially so for remote teams. Learn how we evaluate social signals in this post.…
How to manage macOS windows using JavaScript for Automation (JXA)
To make Pragli feel more natural alongside Slack, we implemented a basic window management feature for macOS that automatically places Slack and Pragli next to each other with a simple hotkey. Learn how to implement basic window management in your Mac desktop application…
Graphic: Top 25 remote cities in the US
Data from our remote trends tool & remote trends analysis, originally from 2017 US Govt ACS survey.…
Include your Remote Team with “Brady Bunch” Video Conferencing
It’s hard to level the playing field between remote and in-office teammates.…
Remote Work Trends According to US Census Data
I created a tool to analyze the remote adoptions trends amongst US cities. Here are the 4 insights about remote adoption that I learned from using the tool.…
I ate lunch with my co-founder over video
Most people work in an office and likely eat with co-workers on a daily basis. Remote workers rarely do the same. In this article, I discuss our challenges in doing a remote lunch, including how we attempted to solve them, and to what degree the lunch was successful.…