Jan 12, 2024

New context menu and snippet improvements

New menu in Plain

This week we’ve released some improvements aimed at optimizing your workflow in Plain and making it even more efficient.

Right-click context menu

When you right-click on a thread in a queue, a context menu will appear. This menu gives you multiple quick actions to scan and triage your support workflow, without having to click into the individual thread. You can assign or un-assign a user, snooze a thread, or modify labels, customer groups, and priorities.

Snippet improvements

We’ve also made it easier to manage snippets. You can now create or modify snippets directly from the composer, without needing to navigate to Settings.

When you highlight text in the composer and click the snippet button, a snippet panel will appear with the selected text and you can quickly save a new snippet.

You can also create new snippets or edit existing ones from the snippet palette with either the [ key or the snippet button.

Lastly, we’ve added search to the snippet Settings page so you can quickly scan your snippet repository to find the right one.

Improvements

  • After a contact form is submitted, your response to a user is sent via email. We now copy the original question into the email so the customer has full context on the interaction.

  • The reason badge (reason a thread is back in your ‘To Do’ queue) now appears on the thread queue.

  • We’ve updated the visual style of focus rings.

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed visual bug in dark mode on our skeleton loading states.

  • Fixed a bug where emoticons didn’t show up when searching in the emoji palette.

  • Fixed a bug where pressing the e key in the label input field on the Linear issue panel caused the ‘Mark as Done’ shortcut to fire.

Designed, built and written by

Elise Bach

Engineering

Mitchell Petrie

Design