The Pragli Blog (Page 2)

How to authenticate with Google Oauth in Electron

Vivek Nair on Development | 10 Jan 2020

Last month, we started to get concerning bug reports from our users that they couldn’t authenticate with Google directly inside of the Pragli desktop application. Here’s the error message that they were seeing:You are trying to sign in from a browser or app that doesn’t allow…

Best Practices

Doug Safreno | 09 Jan 2020

You signed up for Pragli, followed our getting started guide, and invited your teammates, but now you're wondering - how should I use this thing? This post provides best practices.…

Frequently Asked Questions

Doug Safreno | 09 Jan 2020

How is Pragli priced? Pragli is free while in open beta. We intend to introduce a paid tier alongside a free-forever tier, but our plans may change.…

Getting Started with Pragli

Doug Safreno | 09 Jan 2020

A checklist for getting started with Pragli.…

Social Signals #3: Using Google or Outlook Calendar to signal availability

Vivek Nair on Social Signals | 08 Jan 2020

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 Nair on Communication | 02 Jan 2020

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

Vivek Nair on Social Signals | 11 Dec 2019

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

Vivek Nair on Social Signals | 11 Dec 2019

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)

Vivek Nair on Development | 04 Dec 2019

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

Doug Safreno | 25 Nov 2019

Data from our remote trends tool & remote trends analysis, originally from 2017 US Govt ACS survey.…