See your team on the map, as it happens.
Teammates’ pointers glide and leave when they do, an arrow points to anyone out of view, and each change arrives at once, with a ring in its author’s colour and a short note of who did what.
Working on the same map used to feel a beat behind. Pointers stuttered, or froze where someone had left them; a teammate’s change appeared only after the whole map reloaded, without a word about who made it; and a dropped connection took seconds to come back. The map now shows your team as it moves.
Pointers that glide, and go
A teammate’s pointer now follows their hand smoothly, about a tenth of a second behind, and disappears when they leave the map, switch tab or lift their finger; a pointer left still for eight seconds fades. Someone pointing outside your view becomes an arrow on the edge of the map, with their name: click it to go where they are. Each teammate keeps one colour, the same on everyone’s screen and kept apart from your projects’ colours.
Every change, said once
When a teammate adds, renames, links, files or deletes a document, or asks for a review, the change shows on your map at once, with a ring in their colour around the star for a moment and a short note at the top, such as: Idris Okafor asked for a review of “Art bible”. A burst of changes is grouped, as in Idris Okafor changed 6 documents. A star they drag moves with their pointer, a group they drag moves as one, and your own changes are never announced to you. A link an agent makes over MCP now shows on open maps too.
Where everyone really is
The list of who is live says where each person is: on the map, in a folder, in Columns, in a document, or away from this tab when theirs is in the background. A dropped connection comes back as soon as the network does, when the tab returns to the front, or when the server has not answered for eight seconds; meanwhile a teammate who misses a heartbeat reads as reconnecting rather than vanishing at once. In a document, teammates’ selections show in their colour and their caret stays exactly where they type.
What we measured
In our test environment, with up to four teammates on one map: no pointer message lost, where 7.5 to 18% used to be; a teammate’s pointer redrawn 58 to 62 times a second, against 41 to 55; a star a teammate drags redrawn about 60 times a second instead of 15; and an editor reconnected 0.8 seconds after a 20-second network cut, showing what changed meanwhile after 1.2 seconds, against 6.6 and 7.0.
Try it in your workflow
- Open the same map as a teammate, each in your own browser.
- Move your pointer: theirs follows smoothly, and disappears when they switch tab.
- Ask them to rename a document or ask for a review: the ring and the note appear on your map.
- Pan away from them, then click the arrow with their name to go back.
Pointers show on the map; in a document you see teammates’ carets and selections. A move is not announced, since the star glides in front of you, and an arrangement brings a note without rings. The live demo is a read-only snapshot, so no change reaches it: try this in a workspace with a teammate. The picture shows Saltmarrow’s fictional sample team in the demo.
