Last December, as 2017 was waning to a close, I was at an emotional low. I couldn’t put my finger on it, but I was tired. I had reached a stage in life when there was just too much to do, too many obligations, too many priorities. I lost my…

Today, Missions officially joins Slack — When we started Missions at Robots & Pencils, we set out to make it easy for anyone to automate team workflows in Slack. We believed the collaboration hub model is the future of work. …

Improved Slack message formatting for Missions — A challenging aspect of building message based workflows is designing the messages themselves. The right formatting can significantly improve the readability and usability of messages. Slack offers developers a lot of options for laying out messages with code, but ironically, these are out of reach of the average Slack user…

And a new multiperson direct message (MPDM) step — It’s really convenient and sometimes darn delightful to handle simple workflows right inside of Slack. …

Serverless Javascript Code steps, message branding, deep linking and step duplication. — February is short on days but long on features. It’s time for a round up of the latest updates to Missions as we close out the month. Since October, we’ve had nearly 400 individual conversations with users, and we’re learning a lot together. Each feature below is a gift to…

In honor of 💝 Valentines Day, we’d like to give a valentine to developers and show how you can create Slack integrations with Missions in a fraction of the time of building from scratch. Every experienced Slack developer knows it takes days if not weeks to wire up all of…

Mission’s new Google Forms Add-on for triggering workflows in Slack — Missions is great for making structured workflows that run in your Slack workspace. Most workflows require data from the person who launches the workflow. For example, approvals, purchase requests, and gathering feedback all require a structured set form data. Slack Dialogs are perfect for collecting a few pieces of data—…

The latest updates from the Missions.ai — Messaging based workflows for Slack — A few weeks ago we announced a bundle of improvements to Missions. Today we’re happy to pile on a few more. With these changes, we’ve made it easy to mention teammates in your workflows, and we’ve made it easier to share and launch Missions in Slack. Pick People 🙆 The dynamic data and…

Logic, Reactions, Zapier, Enterprise Grid, more Emoji 🤠 — Happy New Year! The Missions team is off to a great start this year and couldn’t be more excited for the year to come (big plans! 🐼). We’ve been so busy speaking with users and getting improvements out the door that we nearly forgot to announce them! 😅 Here’s a…