Docs for building software

Docs for building software

Balsa is for organizing ideas, tracking projects, and collaborating with your team. Give it a try and see how it can simplify your workflow!

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Balsa Roadmap

Balsa Roadmap

In progress

Jan 04, 2023

Next week

Highlights the important stuff

Balsa keeps your team and external shareholders up-to-date, with minimal extra work. The status, key dates, and relevant links of your project are available at a glance.

Balsa Modules v2 final

#feat-better-docs

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A better doc for making software

We are huge fans of products like Dropbox Paper and Notion. These products are great for lots of different use cases, but we aim to make a document that is great for making software—with the ability to write specs and put a plan into action in one place.

  • Simplified text formatting that make docs easy to write and a joy to read

  • Structured modules like milestones that can power views like timelines and rosters

  • All-in-one workflow from doc to execution without the overhead of out-of-date documentation or switching tools

Brings your to-dos into focus

Write your specs and create milestones and tasks for your project right away - setting deadlines and assigning work in context is a game changer. Balsa's task view gives you a dedicated breakdown of your project's to-dos, front and center.

Kickoff prep

Create a feature channel in Slack

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Project plan first draft (this one)

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Kick off meeting 🚀

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Balsa's checkboxes are no ordinary checkboxes. With milestones and tasks, you can easily organize your projects, track progress, assign responsibility, and power views like timeline.

Text Formatting (WYSIWYG) and modules

Highlighting ⚡

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Milestones and tasks

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Paragraphs

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Image annotation: it would be so useful to be able to label screenshots

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Bullets and lists

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Code formatting

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Timeline view

Problem Statement

Making software is a team effort that requires collaboration and coordination among team members. However, the current tools available for writing and managing software documentation are often disconnected from the actual development process, leading to inefficiencies, misunderstandings, and delays. This product aims to solve these problems by providing a better way to write, organize, and execute software plans in one place.

Audience

  • Product managers, who need to write and communicate specs and plans to their team

  • Engineers, who need to understand the requirements and dependencies of a project

  • Designers, who need to collaborate with engineers and other stakeholders

  • Executives, who need to stay updated on the progress of the project and make informed decisions based on the data

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Annotate

directly

on your image. ✨

on the img ✨

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Doodle-free notes on your beautiful

Doodle-free on the beautiful

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Sort, filter, and
get work done

Turn your complex projects into plans for execution. Stay organized by seeing the whole team's progress or simply focusing on tasks assigned to you.

Sort, filter, and
get work done

Turn your complex projects into plans for execution. Stay organized by seeing the whole team's progress or simply focusing on tasks assigned to you.

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Balsa Roadmap

16 tasks

Kick off meeting 🚀

Kickoff prep

Aug 28

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Kick off meeting 🚀

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Highlighting ⚡

Text Formatting (WYSIWYG) and modules

Aug 28

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Highlighting ⚡

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Image annotation: it would be so useful to be able to label screenshots

Text Formatting (WYSIWYG) and modules

Aug 28

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Image annotation: it would be so useful to be able to label screenshots

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Refresh Task View with newly created tasks

FE - Task View

Aug 28

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Refresh Task View with newly created tasks

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Filtering consolidation: directory, milestone, task

Design To-do

Aug 31

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Filtering consolidation: directory, milestone, task

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Empty screen for task view

Design To-do

Aug 31

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Empty screen for task view

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Filter: completed tasks

Design To-do

Aug 31

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Filter: completed tasks

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Create a feature channel in Slack

Kickoff prep

Sep 3

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Create a feature channel in Slack

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Project plan first draft (this one)

Kickoff prep

Sep 3

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Project plan first draft (this one)

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Milestones and tasks

Text Formatting (WYSIWYG) and modules

Sep 3

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Milestones and tasks

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Paragraph

Text Formatting (WYSIWYG) and modules

Sep 6

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Paragraph

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Bullets and lists

Text Formatting (WYSIWYG) and modules

Sep 6

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Bullets and lists

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Code formatting

Text Formatting (WYSIWYG) and modules

Sep 7

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Code formatting

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Show number of outstanding tasks in the task button

FE - Task View

Sep 17

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Show number of outstanding tasks in the task button

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Investigate group coming back for ungrouped tasks

FE - Task View

Sep 19

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Investigate group coming back for ungrouped tasks

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Show all tasks in project ungrouped, sorted by date

FE - Task View

Sep 19

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Show all tasks in project ungrouped, sorted by date

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How to hide completed tasks

Design To-do

Sep 19

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How to hide completed tasks

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Toolbar logic

Design To-do

Sep 21

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Toolbar logic

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Clicking on user icon again toggles back to "Everyone"

Design To-do

Aug 17

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Clicking on user icon again toggles back to "Everyone"

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Group: Milestones

Sort: Created

People: Everyone

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powers a timeline view

Balsa visualizes your projects for you - from a bird's eye view, you can see how they might affect each other and the progress of your team overall.

powers a timeline view

Balsa visualizes your projects for you - from a bird's eye view, you can see how they might affect each other and the progress of your team overall.

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Text Formatting

Kickoff 👉

Refactor 🪢

Basic formatting 🐣

Anchor text ⚓️

⚙️

Modules

Text modules ✏️

Lists and bullets 🔢

Milestone module

Pizza party 🍕

👯‍♀️

Team roster modules

Kickoff

BE breakdown 🦉

1% launch

1% launch

Show: filtered

Sort: status

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Text Formatting

Kickoff 👉

Refactor 🪢

Basic formatting 🐣

Anchor text ⚓️

⚙️

Modules

Text modules ✏️

Lists and bullets 🔢

Milestone module

Pizza party 🍕

👯‍♀️

Team roster modules

Kickoff

BE breakdown 🦉

1% launch

1% launch

Starter

FREE

Up to 5 projects

Status updates

Timeline

Directory

Calendar integration

Professional

$12

per editor / month, billed annually
$15 billed monthly

Everything in free...

Unlimited projects

Unlimited viewers

Soon: Private projects

Soon: Initiatives

Enterprise

$49

per editor / month, billed annually
$59 billed monthly

Everything in pro...

Private initiatives

Reporting

SAML SSO

SCIM provisioning

Starter

FREE

Up to 5 projects

Status updates

Timeline

Directory

Calendar integration

Professional

$12

per editor / month, billed annually
$15 billed monthly

Everything in free...

Unlimited projects

Unlimited viewers

Soon: Private projects

Soon: Initiatives

Enterprise

$49

per editor / month, billed annually
$59 billed monthly

Everything in pro...

Private initiatives

Reporting

SAML SSO

SCIM provisioning

Get Started quickly

Start your next project in Balsa and invite your teammates to help.