What is new, day by day

New

A bar at the bottom

On a phone, a bar at the bottom of the screen has search, today's note, a new item, and buttons to take a photo or add files. When you select an item, the bar shows its actions: complete, indent, outdent, move, undo, add a photo or files, zoom in, and the item menu. While you type, the bar shows above the keyboard.

Tap to select

Tap an item to select it without the keyboard. Tap it again, or tap the keyboard button, to type.

Gestures

Swipe a selected item right or left to indent or outdent it. Tap with two fingers to search. In the app on the home screen, swipe from the left edge to go back.

Add to your home screen

Add Fam to the home screen of your phone. It opens in its own window, without the browser bar.

Pages that slide

Zoom in and out with the slide of a phone app.

Back to the parent

A zoomed item shows a large back button with the name of its parent.

Long press on a bullet

Tap a bullet to zoom in. Press and hold it to open the item menu, or hold and drag it to move the item.

Improved

• On a touch screen, text is larger, and bullets, arrows, menus, sidebar rows, and the buttons of the bar are easier to tap.
• On a phone, each pane takes the full width of the screen.
• Dashboard cards fit a narrow screen.

New

Card sizes

Calendars and boards get wide cards. Chats and galleries get tall cards. In a narrow pane, each card takes the full width.

Act from a card

Send a message from the card of a chat. Add a to-do from the card of a to-do list.

Improved

• The card of a calendar shows this week and the next two days with entries.
• The card of a board shows its columns side by side, with their first cards.
• Each card shows an icon for its kind, and it shows only whole lines.

New

Shortcuts

Type /shortcut in an item and give it a name. Cmd+K finds the item by that name, and an exact match comes first.

Direct messages

Press Cmd+J, choose people, and write. Each message notifies the other people, and their faces show in the sidebar.

The dock

Conversations open in small windows at the bottom right, over your panes. New messages pop up with a reply field.

Messages about items

Choose “Send a message about this” in the item menu. The message shows the item and its progress.

Make a to-do

Turn a message into a to-do in today’s daily note. The sender sees when it is done.

Messages on the phone

The Messages button at the top of the screen shows your faces and conversations. A conversation opens on the whole screen.

Improved

• Search (Cmd+K) is now “Go to…”.
• Type @ in an item, and Fam suggests dates as you type, such as Today, Tomorrow, and Next Friday. Press Enter to add one.

New

Dates with @

Type @tomorrow, @next friday, or @in 3 days, and the words become a date. Without the @, the words stay text.

Now

Type @now for today at the current time.

Templates

Add #template to an item, and its name becomes a template. Type /template and its name, or pick “Use a template…” in the item menu, to copy it with its children.

Fam CLI

Read, add, and change your items from the terminal, as Markdown or JSON. Run fam auth login, and approve the code in your browser.

Improved

• Search items group their results by place, with the path above each group. Click a part of the path to go to it. So do the items dated each day and the items that link to a node.

New

Tags

Type #errand in any item. Nest tags with a slash, as in #recipes/italian, and end a tag with spaces with #, as in #meal plans#. Fam suggests your tags as you type.

Tags in the sidebar

The sidebar lists your tags, with nested tags under their parents. Click one to see every item with it.

Find by tag

Click a tag in an item to show only the rows with it. Search, the Escape filter, and search items take #errand too.

Bookmark order

Drag a bookmark in the sidebar to move it. On a phone, press and hold it first. Search and the link menus use the same order.

Move to today

In a calendar, open to-dos of past days have a red checkbox. Click the button on the day to move them all to today.

Pull for another month

In a calendar, keep scrolling past the top or the bottom. Hold for a second, and the month before or after rolls into view.

Hide completed

Press Ctrl+O, or choose “Show completed” in your account menu, to hide the to-dos that are done. Press it again to show them.

Improved

• In a daily note, the items dated that day are live. Change them, add children, and expand them in place.
• The daily notes calendar shows the items dated each day, in the month and in the agenda.
• The items that link to a node are live too, below the node when you zoom in.
• In a daily note, the previous and next day buttons go to any day, also a day without notes.

New

Landing pages

A page for families, teams, students, teachers, researchers, writers, creators, and people who run a business.

All features

Every feature of Fam on one page, by group.

Changelog and roadmap

See what changed each day, and what comes next.

Waitlist

Fam is in a closed beta. Leave your email to get an invitation.

Live carets

In a shared item, see where other people type, with their name and color, as they type.

Math

Type LaTeX, like “$x^2$”, in any text, or write a whole formula in a math block. Fam draws the math, also on published pages.

Sidebar

Search, daily notes, notifications, and your bookmarks are in a sidebar at the left. Fold it to icons with Cmd+\.

Columns

Choose Layout, then Columns, to put the children of an item side by side, as in Notion.

Improved

• Typing in a shared item reaches the other people within a quarter of a second.
• Your caret keeps its place when someone else types in the same row.
• “Share…” is in the “/” menu.
• The Escape filter takes typed filters, like “is:open”, “kind:todo”, “@me”, and “date:this-week”.
• A notification about a shared item opens it, also while another item from the same person is open.
• A forwarded email looks as it does in your mail app. Images from other sites load when you click “Show images”.

New

Date chips

Type “Oct 30” or “2026-10-30”, and the words become a date.

Times and ranges

Add a time, like “at 3 pm”, or a range, like “Oct 30 – Nov 2”.

Reminders

Set a reminder on a date or on any item. Repeat it every day, week, month, or year.

The reminder card

When a reminder goes off, a card rings in Fam. Open the item, or snooze the reminder.

Filter rows

Press Escape, and type a few words to show only the rows that match.

Improved

• Each daily note lists the items that are dated that day.
• Shift-click a date to open its daily note in a new pane.
• The Date filter of search items finds date chips.
• The “Assigned to me” list shows the day of each item.
• A new, easier font for text.

New

Email forwards

Give any item its own email address. Emails arrive as items, and their attachments as files.

Search items

Save a search as an item. Its results stay up to date, and you edit them in place.

Posts and blogs

Write posts with an author and a date. The Blog layout lists them on the web.

Newsletters

Readers subscribe on your blog. Each new post goes to their inbox.

Comments on parts of a post

Select words in a draft, and comment on them.

Quiet time

Set your notification hours, or pause everything. Emails wait until you are back.

Improved

• Search results can show as a board or a calendar, and you can watch them for new results.
• Groups of filters in search items.
• Copy and paste selected items.
• The “/” menu finds commands when you mistype them.
• Confetti and friendly empty pages.

New

Assignees

Assign any item to one or more people. Their avatars show on it.

Assigned to me

One list of everything assigned to you, from every shared item.

Publish to the web

Publish any item as a web page, with a password, an end date, or a limit on opens.

Web Clipper

Save a page, a link, or selected text from Chrome or Firefox to today's note or to any item.

Request edit access

A person who can only view can ask to edit.

Move to

Pick a new place for an item from a list.

Improved

• Boards remember the width of each column.
• Email addresses become links.
• Code blocks have new syntax colors.

New

Comments

Comment on any item. Reply in threads, and resolve them when the work is done.

Mentions

Type @ and a name to bring someone into a comment.

Reactions

React to comments with an emoji and a few words.

Chats

Add a chat anywhere in the tree, with threads, voice notes, and files.

Voice notes

Record audio in the page, and play it back in place.

Watch any item

Choose the changes that you want to hear about.

Presentation mode

Present any item as slides that fill the screen.

Improved

• Find, link, and mirror items that other people share with you.
• Avatars show who can see each shared item.
• Fam asks before a delete that takes many items.
• Phone numbers become call links.
• Collapse the columns of a board.
• The address bar shows the item that you zoom into.

New

Whiteboards

Draw shapes, arrows, and text on a canvas.

Tables

Show a list as rows and cells. Cells can use formulas.

Diagrams

Write Mermaid code, and Fam draws the diagram.

Paste Markdown

Paste Markdown, and it keeps its headings, lists, tables, and quotes.

More kinds of items

Numbered lists, quotes, and callouts.

To-do progress

An item shows how many of the to-dos under it are done.

Improved

• Typing and moving the caret are faster in long pages.
• Create a new item from the “[[” menu when no item matches.
• Duplicate an item and its children with Ctrl+D.
• Fill the window with the active pane with Ctrl+F.
• Large images load faster in small places.

New

Share any item

Share one item and everything under it. Each person can edit or only view.

Panes

Open up to nine items side by side, and move between them.

Calendars

Put entries on a month grid, with times and an agenda.

Daily notes

Each day has its own note. Press Ctrl+T to open today.

Galleries

Show images and other items next to each other.

Any file

Upload any file. PDF files show their first page.

Link cards

Paste a link, and it shows as a card with the title and image.

Zen mode

Hide everything but the page for focused writing.

Improved

• Change your shortcuts in Settings.
• A panel helps you learn the shortcuts.
• Each pane has its own width.
• Small print, a new kind of item.

New

Links and backlinks

Type [[ to link to any item. Each item lists the places that link to it.

Mirrors

Type (( to show one item in two places. A change in one changes both.

Boards

Show the children of an item as columns of cards.

Dashboards

Show items as cards with a preview of what is inside each one.

Bookmarks

Keep the items you open most one click away.

Images

Upload images into the page.

Improved

• The “/” menu groups its commands.
• Give a page a background color.
• Drag items between a list and its board.

New

Search everything

Press Cmd+K to find any item by its words.

Code blocks

Write code with syntax colors for many languages.

Emojis

Type “:” to pick an emoji.

Improved

• Start a row with “- ” to make a bullet.
• Put text between backticks to make inline code.
• Collapse or expand an item with Ctrl+Space.
• Rows under a done to-do are dimmed.

New

The outliner

Every note and list is a row. Any row can hold other rows.

Zoom

Zoom into any item, and it becomes a page of its own.

To-dos

Start a row with “[ ] ” to make a to-do.

A friendly start

A short tour and sample items show you around.

Improved

• Move rows up and down with the keyboard.
• Backspace in an empty to-do makes it a bullet.

New

Accounts

One account holds the people you live or work with.

Sign in with Google

No new password to remember.