What is new, day by day.

Dates with @, and templates

Type @ before a date in words, copy templates into any place, and see where each search result lives.

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.

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.

Tags, and your bookmarks in your order

Tag any item with #, and put the bookmarks in the sidebar in the order that you want.

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.

A home on the web

Pages for each audience, every feature on one page, a waitlist, live carets, a sidebar, and columns.

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”.

Dates and reminders

Type a date, add a time or a range, and set reminders that repeat.

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.

Email forwards, search items, and posts

Send emails into your tree, save searches as items, and publish a blog.

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.

Assignees, publishing, and the Web Clipper

Assign work, publish any item, and save pages from your browser.

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.

Comments, chats, and voice notes

Talk about your work next to it, and hear about the changes you care about.

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.

Whiteboards, tables, and Markdown

New kinds of items, and a faster editor.

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.

Panes, calendars, and sharing

Work side by side, plan by day, and share items with other people.

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.

Links, mirrors, and boards

Connect items, show one item in two places, and see lists as boards.

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.

Search and code

Find any item, and write code with colors.

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.

The outliner

Write in rows that nest, with the keyboard.

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.

Day one

Fam begins.

New

Accounts
One account holds the people you live or work with.
Sign in with Google
No new password to remember.

Fam is invite-only for now.

We let people in a few at a time. Leave your email, and we will send you an invitation.