What we build next
Coming up
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Typing in the same row
Type in the same row as other people at the same moment, without losing words.
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Images in web clips
The Web Clipper saves the images of a page into Fam, not only links to them.
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Fields
Give items fields, such as a due date or a price. Search items filter by them.
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A daily summary email
One email a day in place of one email for each notification.
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Search more
Find words in comments, chat messages, and the transcripts of voice notes.
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Better chats
Search messages, see all your chats with their unread messages, pin messages, and mute a chat.
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Comments on any text
Select words in any item, not only in posts, and comment on them.
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Mentions that assign
Mention a person in the text of an item to assign it to them.
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Scheduled posts
Write a post now, and Fam publishes it at the time you set.
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Highlights and templates in the Web Clipper
Highlight text on a page, and choose how each clip looks.
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A phone app
Fam on your phone, with notifications.
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Custom domains for blogs
Publish your blog at an address that you own.
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Comments from readers
Readers of a public page comment and react, and you choose what stays.
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AI agents in comments
Ask an AI agent for help in a comment. It has its own account and does the work.
Shipped
October 2026
- A bar at the bottom Oct 31 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 Oct 31 Tap an item to select it without the keyboard. Tap it again, or tap the keyboard button, to type.
- Gestures Oct 31 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 Oct 31 Add Fam to the home screen of your phone. It opens in its own window, without the browser bar.
- Pages that slide Oct 31 Zoom in and out with the slide of a phone app.
- Back to the parent Oct 31 A zoomed item shows a large back button with the name of its parent.
- Long press on a bullet Oct 31 Tap a bullet to zoom in. Press and hold it to open the item menu, or hold and drag it to move the item.
- Card sizes Oct 30 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 Oct 30 Send a message from the card of a chat. Add a to-do from the card of a to-do list.
- Shortcuts Oct 29 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 Oct 29 Press Cmd+J, choose people, and write. Each message notifies the other people, and their faces show in the sidebar.
- The dock Oct 29 Conversations open in small windows at the bottom right, over your panes. New messages pop up with a reply field.
- Messages about items Oct 29 Choose “Send a message about this” in the item menu. The message shows the item and its progress.
- Make a to-do Oct 29 Turn a message into a to-do in today’s daily note. The sender sees when it is done.
- Messages on the phone Oct 29 The Messages button at the top of the screen shows your faces and conversations. A conversation opens on the whole screen.
- Dates with @ Oct 28 Type @tomorrow, @next friday, or @in 3 days, and the words become a date. Without the @, the words stay text.
- Now Oct 28 Type @now for today at the current time.
- Templates Oct 28 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 Oct 28 Read, add, and change your items from the terminal, as Markdown or JSON. Run fam auth login, and approve the code in your browser.
- Tags Oct 27 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 Oct 27 The sidebar lists your tags, with nested tags under their parents. Click one to see every item with it.
- Find by tag Oct 27 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 Oct 27 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 Oct 27 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 Oct 27 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 Oct 27 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.
- Landing pages Oct 25 A page for families, teams, students, teachers, researchers, writers, creators, and people who run a business.
- All features Oct 25 Every feature of Fam on one page, by group.
- Changelog and roadmap Oct 25 See what changed each day, and what comes next.
- Waitlist Oct 25 Fam is in a closed beta. Leave your email to get an invitation.
- Live carets Oct 25 In a shared item, see where other people type, with their name and color, as they type.
- Math Oct 25 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 Oct 25 Search, daily notes, notifications, and your bookmarks are in a sidebar at the left. Fold it to icons with Cmd+\.
- Columns Oct 25 Choose Layout, then Columns, to put the children of an item side by side, as in Notion.
- Date chips Oct 24 Type “Oct 30” or “2026-10-30”, and the words become a date.
- Times and ranges Oct 24 Add a time, like “at 3 pm”, or a range, like “Oct 30 – Nov 2”.
- Reminders Oct 24 Set a reminder on a date or on any item. Repeat it every day, week, month, or year.
- The reminder card Oct 24 When a reminder goes off, a card rings in Fam. Open the item, or snooze the reminder.
- Filter rows Oct 24 Press Escape, and type a few words to show only the rows that match.
- Email forwards Oct 23 Give any item its own email address. Emails arrive as items, and their attachments as files.
- Search items Oct 23 Save a search as an item. Its results stay up to date, and you edit them in place.
- Posts and blogs Oct 23 Write posts with an author and a date. The Blog layout lists them on the web.
- Newsletters Oct 23 Readers subscribe on your blog. Each new post goes to their inbox.
- Comments on parts of a post Oct 23 Select words in a draft, and comment on them.
- Quiet time Oct 23 Set your notification hours, or pause everything. Emails wait until you are back.
- Assignees Oct 22 Assign any item to one or more people. Their avatars show on it.
- Assigned to me Oct 22 One list of everything assigned to you, from every shared item.
- Publish to the web Oct 22 Publish any item as a web page, with a password, an end date, or a limit on opens.
- Web Clipper Oct 22 Save a page, a link, or selected text from Chrome or Firefox to today's note or to any item.
- Request edit access Oct 22 A person who can only view can ask to edit.
- Move to Oct 22 Pick a new place for an item from a list.
- Comments Oct 21 Comment on any item. Reply in threads, and resolve them when the work is done.
- Mentions Oct 21 Type @ and a name to bring someone into a comment.
- Reactions Oct 21 React to comments with an emoji and a few words.
- Chats Oct 21 Add a chat anywhere in the tree, with threads, voice notes, and files.
- Voice notes Oct 21 Record audio in the page, and play it back in place.
- Watch any item Oct 21 Choose the changes that you want to hear about.
- Presentation mode Oct 21 Present any item as slides that fill the screen.
- Whiteboards Oct 20 Draw shapes, arrows, and text on a canvas.
- Tables Oct 20 Show a list as rows and cells. Cells can use formulas.
- Diagrams Oct 20 Write Mermaid code, and Fam draws the diagram.
- Paste Markdown Oct 20 Paste Markdown, and it keeps its headings, lists, tables, and quotes.
- More kinds of items Oct 20 Numbered lists, quotes, and callouts.
- To-do progress Oct 20 An item shows how many of the to-dos under it are done.
- Share any item Oct 19 Share one item and everything under it. Each person can edit or only view.
- Panes Oct 19 Open up to nine items side by side, and move between them.
- Calendars Oct 19 Put entries on a month grid, with times and an agenda.
- Daily notes Oct 19 Each day has its own note. Press Ctrl+T to open today.
- Galleries Oct 19 Show images and other items next to each other.
- Any file Oct 19 Upload any file. PDF files show their first page.
- Link cards Oct 19 Paste a link, and it shows as a card with the title and image.
- Zen mode Oct 19 Hide everything but the page for focused writing.
- Links and backlinks Oct 18 Type [[ to link to any item. Each item lists the places that link to it.
- Mirrors Oct 18 Type (( to show one item in two places. A change in one changes both.
- Boards Oct 18 Show the children of an item as columns of cards.
- Dashboards Oct 18 Show items as cards with a preview of what is inside each one.
- Bookmarks Oct 18 Keep the items you open most one click away.
- Images Oct 18 Upload images into the page.
- Search everything Oct 17 Press Cmd+K to find any item by its words.
- Code blocks Oct 17 Write code with syntax colors for many languages.
- Emojis Oct 17 Type “:” to pick an emoji.
- The outliner Oct 16 Every note and list is a row. Any row can hold other rows.
- Zoom Oct 16 Zoom into any item, and it becomes a page of its own.
- To-dos Oct 16 Start a row with “[ ] ” to make a to-do.
- A friendly start Oct 16 A short tour and sample items show you around.
- Accounts Oct 15 One account holds the people you live or work with.
- Sign in with Google Oct 15 No new password to remember.
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