You can now integrate GitHub with Atono to see pull requests directly on the stories and bugs they’re connected to—so you always know what’s in flight, what’s been reviewed, and what’s been shipped.

When a PR mentions an Atono item ID (like STORY-123 or BUG-456) in its title, description, branch name, or (optionally) a comment, it’s automatically linked. Atono shows the number of linked PRs on each item, and clicking reveals details like title, status, assignee, and build state—all without leaving Atono.

Highlights:

• See what’s happening in GitHub—right from your backlog. Pull request icons appear in the item detail, and backlog, with full status at a glance.
• Automatic linking that just works: Mention an Atono ID in your PR, and it links to the right item in Atono.
• Clear activity history: Key GitHub events—like PRs being opened, merged, or closed—are recorded in the item’s Activities history.
• Bi-directional awareness: Atono also comments on the PR in GitHub, linking back to the story or bug that motivated the change.
• Control over setup: Choose which repositories to connect and whether to scan PR comments

This keeps planning and development connected—so your team can track progress without switching tools.

Answers for every role—straight from your shipped work.

Ask Capy is a new assistant that reads through completed stories and bugs to help your team understand how features work, what decisions were made, and why things behave the way they do. Just ask your question in natural language—Capy finds the relevant work and shows its sources, so you can explore or verify as needed. It’s built for the moments when you need clarity—without guessing keywords or waiting on someone else to respond.

Here’s how Capy helps:

• Developers can find out how a feature was implemented without pinging a PM or digging through old stories.
• Product managers can revisit past decisions and spend less time answering questions that teammates can now look up themselves.
• QA can see what was intended behavior, helping them identify true bugs and avoid false alarms during testing.
• Support engineers can tell whether a customer-reported issue reflects intended behavior—even if they weren’t involved when the feature was built.
• Incident responders can quickly get context during triage—especially when the right expert isn’t available or ownership is unclear.

Capy also helps new teammates in any role ramp up faster by showing how things were built, without taking time from the rest of the team.

Get early access

We’re still refining how Capy interprets questions and reads your backlog, so we’re rolling it out gradually. Want to try it? Contact us in #support in the community and we’ll get you set up.

You can now add freeform text to the end of any story—perfect for context that doesn’t belong in the user story or acceptance criteria. Use it for notes, references, or any other supporting details your team needs to track.

This new section supports rich text formatting and comments. It’s included in global search results, and changes are recorded in the story’s activities history.

To access it, just click below your acceptance criteria—or press return or the down key after the last one in the list.

You can now search all your backlog items from anywhere in Atono. Just start typing in the new search bar in the header—results update in real time and include stories and bugs from team backlogs, bug triage, and story refinement.

Search looks across titles, IDs, descriptions, user stories, acceptance criteria, and comments (excluding resolved or rejected ones). Results are ranked by relevance, with exact ID matches always at the top.

Highlights:

• Smart keyword matching: Supports fuzzy matching—so even if you make a typo or aren’t sure of the exact phrasing, relevant items will still show up.
• Recent searches: Revisit your last 10 searches, with filters automatically reapplied.
• Filters: Narrow results by team, workflow step, risk, environment, and more.
• Typeahead suggestions: Predictive text helps you find what you need faster.
• Keyboard shortcut: Use Cmd/Ctrl+K to jump to search without touching your mouse.

You can now save filtered views of stories and bugs from the Everything page, share those views with others, and add them to your Home page as widgets.

Save views to use again

If you’ve applied filters, sorting, or adjusted columns on the Everything page, you can now save that configuration as a view. It’s a quick way to revisit different sets of work without rebuilding the view each time.

For example, you might save one view for open, high-risk bugs, another for stories larger than size XL that need to be split, and a third for work that's ready to toggle feature flags on.

Saved views appear in a dropdown from the page title and can be renamed, updated, or deleted at any time.

Default views

The selector includes two default views that are always available, even if you haven’t saved anything yet:

• Everything shows all the stories and bugs you’re allowed to see.
• Assigned to me focuses on just work assigned to you that’s in workflow steps categorized as ‘To do’ or ‘In progress’.

Share views with users or teams

Once you’ve saved a view, you can choose to share it—either with individual users or entire teams. Everyone sees the same filters, sorting, and columns, making it straightforward to stay aligned.

Views shared with you also appear in your list, along with the name of the person who owns the view. You can open, use, or add them to your Home page just like the views you created yourself.

You can also share a temporary link to a view—helpful for sharing over chat or email. Anyone with the link will see the Everything page with the filters you applied when you copied it. They won’t be added as a shared user, but they can save the view themselves if they want to keep it.

Add views to your Home screen

You can add any saved or shared view to your Home page as a widget. This gives you a way to monitor specific sets of work at once–like bugs in review or stories assigned to your team’s backlog.

Each widget displays a scrollable list of matching items, showing the item ID, title, and icon colored to match the current workflow step. Hovering on an item displays more detail, including:

• Risk rating (for bugs)
• Assignee
• Team
• Workflow step
• Timebox
• Product theme (if applicable)

This lets you quickly see who’s working on what, where things stand, and whether anything needs your attention. If you want more detail, click ‘View items’ to open the full view in the Everything page.

Your Home screen starts with the Assigned to me widget, but you can add, rearrange, or remove widgets at any time. Each one updates automatically as work changes.

You can now purchase a paid plan in Atono! Whether you're wrapping up your trial or just getting started, you can upgrade to keep building with more users and storage—or stick with the Free plan, which includes up to 5 users and 5 GB of storage forever.

What’s new?

• Upgrade to a paid plan. Keep your workspace running with the right plan for your team.
• Customize your plan. Add or remove users, switch between monthly and annual billing, or enable plan options like unlimited storage.
• View your plan details. See your current plan, usage, and included features in one place.
  Access receipts and invoices. View and download your billing history anytime.
• Flexible billing. Pay monthly or annually—whatever works best for you. Change anytime.
• Money-back guarantee. If Atono isn’t the right fit in your first six months, you can request a refund (see our terms and conditions).
• Updated workspace settings. A new menu makes it easier to manage your workspace, plan, and billing.

Looking ahead

We’re working on plans for larger teams. Want to be the first to hear when Enterprise is ready? Join the waitlist.

Not every story is ready for a team backlog right away. Maybe it’s just an idea, or it needs more details before development can begin. Story refinement gives product owners a dedicated space to organize and prioritize work before handing it off to a team.

While this area is built with product owners in mind, anyone can add stories—giving teams a shared space to capture and refine ideas before they’re ready to move forward.

A simple, focused workflow

In Story refinement, stories are organized into four steps:

• Idea — Capture early-stage concepts.
• Refinement — Develop and finalize details.
• Ready for assignment — Queue fully specified stories for assignment to a team backlog.
• Won’t do — Track items that won’t move forward in the foreseeable future.

Since these stories aren’t assigned to a team yet, they won’t show estimated completion dates or sizes—those come into play once a team takes ownership.

Filter and find what matters

To help product owners focus on the right stories, Story refinement includes the following filtering options:

• Assignee — See stories assigned to specific product owners.
• Product theme — Group work by investment category.
• Timebox — Find stories planned for a particular timeframe.

More control over backlog management

To keep backlogs structured and aligned with priorities, two new roles provide clearer ownership:

• Product Managers — A workspace-level role responsible for managing product themes and overseeing backlog organization, to ensure work aligns with broader priorities.

• Backlog owners — A team-specific role responsible for managing which stories a team will work on and in what order. When a team’s backlog is managed, backlog owners determine what gets added, created, and reordered in the ‘To do’ category, as well as which stories move in and out of ‘Won’t do’.

Customize what you see

List and board views in Story refinement can display product themes and timeboxes, with independent controls for each view. These settings are personal, allowing each user to adjust visibility without affecting other team members.

This release introduces two powerful new features: Timelines, for high-level planning with flexibility, and the Everything page, for a centralized view of all your work.

Timelines

Balancing time, scope, and resources is one of the toughest parts of project management. Traditional tools often lock time and scope together, creating rigid plans that can’t adapt to real-world challenges like unexpected bugs, shifting priorities, or changing estimates.

Atono’s Timelines take a different approach. By separating timeboxes (time), product themes (scope), and resources (teams), Timelines give you the flexibility to plan confidently and adjust as needed. Use timeboxes to define scheduling windows, product themes to group related work, and tailored timelines to share the right level of details with different stakeholders.

Timelines are built to keep you agile and focused on delivering results, no matter what.

Key features:

Timeboxes for scheduling

Define start and end dates to organize work and prioritize what matters most. Flexible drag-and-drop controls let you reorder timeboxes as priorities evolve—without tying scope to rigid deadlines.

Product themes for alignment

Group related stories under product themes to align work with strategic goals. Themes make it easy to track long-term progress, clarify scope, and ensure that every deliverable supports your organization’s priorities.

Zoomable views

Quickly switch between detailed and big-picture planning with zoom levels from 2 days to 5 years, providing the clarity you need at every stage of the journey.

Tailored timelines

Create customized timelines to share the right level of detail with executives, teams, or product organizations. Whether you’re communicating strategic plans or coordinating with your team, you’ll have the tools to ensure everyone is on the same page.

Looking ahead

Future updates will expand timelines to support external stakeholders, helping customers anticipate upcoming features for adoption and tool integration while giving prospects the clarity they need to make informed buying decisions.

See everything!

The Everything page gives you a clear, centralized view of all your work items, making it easy to search, filter, and review details across teams and workflows without switching between different backlogs.

Key features:

Tailored insights for every item type

Unlike tools that treat all work items the same, Atono gives stories and bugs unique properties, reflecting their real-world differences. Filters and columns adapt to the specific types of item you’re viewing, so you’ll only see what’s relevant—no clutter, no noise.

Filter by specific criteria

Refine your view by applying filters such as item type, workflow step, product theme, timebox, and many more. Combine multiple filters to a tailored view of items to focus on.

Search by keyword

Quickly locate specific stories or bugs by searching for keywords in their titles or numbers in their Item ID.

Click to open items

Access the full details of any story or bug with a single click from the table view.

Customize your table view

Add, remove, sort, and reorder columns to focus on the details that matter most to your workflow.

Understand what you’re viewing

See at a glance how many items match your criteria with a count displayed at the top of the table.

This release brings new ways to manage your team’s work, the ability to connect related items, and a refreshed design to make Atono feel more cohesive and polished.

Team board view: visualize your workflow

The team backlog just got a major upgrade with a kanban-style board view—perfect for visualizing progress, identifying bottlenecks, and limiting work in progress. And yes, it works seamlessly with custom workflows too.

Here’s what makes it great:

At-a-glance details

Spot key details like item types and IDs, assignees, sizes (stories), risk ratings (bugs), estimated completion dates, and staleness indicators.

Load balance

Reassign stories and bugs right from the board to distribute work evenly across team members.

Drag and drop

Move items through workflow steps or reorder them within a step.

Collapsible columns

Focus on what matters by collapsing steps you don’t need to see right now. Collapsed columns show indicator bars and item counts on hover, so you can still keep an eye on workflow progress and spot bottlenecks.

Item type filter

Switch between viewing stories, bugs, or both. Your preference is remembered for each backlog.

Want to dive deeper into an item? Click it to view full details, and use the + button in a column header or at the bottom of a step to add new items.

Prefer the list view? It’s still here—switch between views anytime using the icons in the backlog header.

Linked items: track dependencies with ease

Work smarter with Linked items, a feature that links related stories and bugs so you can stay aligned and tackle dependencies head-on.

Why it’s invaluable:

• Highlight critical connections: Show dependencies between items, like which bugs pertain to which stories, so your team understands what impacts what.
• Navigate seamlessly: Jump between related stories and bugs directly from the Linked items section in an item’s details.
• See the bigger picture: Quickly see the status of related items to understand broader workflow progress.

A fresh new look

We’ve given Atono a makeover! The new design feels cohesive and polished, uniting the website and app for a seamless experience.

What’s new:

• Light and dark modes: Redesigned to reduce eye strain and improve focus, no matter how you like to work.
• Updated colours: Users, teams, and workflow steps are now easier to differentiate.
• Refreshed emails: Consistent, modern, and unmistakably Atono.

Every team works differently. That’s why Atono workflows are designed to balance customization with measurability, giving teams the freedom to align their workflows with how they actually work while still gaining clear, actionable insights into continuous improvement opportunities.

Tailored to your team

Atono lets teams customize workflows to fit their unique ways of working—whether influenced by story granularity, team structure, or delivery speed. With this flexibility, teams can refine and optimize processes over time, ensuring workflows evolve as needs change and that work progresses naturally and efficiently.

Built-in measurability

Even with customized workflows, Atono keeps tracking dependable and consistent. Workflow steps are organized into categories, making performance insights reliable across teams, no matter how workflows are customized. This structure helps teams monitor key metrics like average cycle time—the average time items of similar type and size spend in progress—which is vital for optimizing processes, forecasting timelines, and improving delivery.

Key features

Customizable workflows

Create new steps, reorder them, recategorize, and change colors to match your team’s needs—all in real-time, without complicated workflow migrations. This flexibility lets teams build processes that truly reflect how they work.

Cycle time tracking

Track the time each item spends in progress, providing insights into workflow pace while supporting forecasts, release management, and process optimization—all without rigid processes. Teams can also incorporate story sizing in cycle time calculations for added precision.

Average cycle time reports

Get a visual overview of average cycle times for stories and bugs over time to identify trends and uncover opportunities for improvement.

Projected completion dates

Estimate when backlog items are likely to be completed based on past performance, helping with prioritization and keeping projects on track. Reorder backlog items to ensure critical items are completed before their deadlines.

Exclude outliers

Mark unusual cases as outliers to prevent them from skewing performance metrics in cycle time reporting.

Staleness indicators

Spot items that have significantly exceeded expected cycle times in specific steps, helping catch bottlenecks before they cause delays.

Restore to default

Reset workflows to the default to maintain consistency with organizational standards if desired.