Thinking about trying out Atono? You can now import your Linear issues to see how your team’s actual data fits our way of working.

Upload a Linear CSV export and Atono will guide you through the process—mapping teams, users, issues, and product themes automatically. You’ll get validation upfront, options for handling ambiguous or duplicate items, and a preview before finalizing the import.

Highlights:

• Mapped, not messy data: Teams, users, and product themes are automatically matched or created—avoiding duplicates and keeping your setup clean.
• Smart item type detection: Atono uses your labels to classify items as stories or bugs, with the option to skip or reclassify anything unclear—so nothing ends up in the wrong place.
• Structure preserved: Original statuses, timestamps, and assignees are respected. Workflow steps are inferred from your data and adjusted to fit Atono’s model.
• Support for seat limits: If you don’t have enough seats, assigned users are imported as inactive—so you preserve assignments and can invite teammates later when there’s space.

You’ll also find helpful tips for preparing your data beforehand—so things land where they should, with less cleanup afterward.

You can now programmatically access and manage your Atono data using our public API—making it easier to automate workflows, connect with other tools, and customize Atono to fit the way your team works.

Whether you're building internal tools, syncing data across systems, or just prefer to script instead of click, the API gives you structured, authenticated access to your stories, bugs, users, teams, and feature flags.

Use it to:

• Flip feature flags programmatically
• Create or update stories and bugs from other systems
• Retrieve stories or bugs using filters like team, assignee, or date
• Synchronize users and teams with other systems

Authentication is handled with personal API keys tied to your account. You’ll only be authorized to access what you already have permission to see or edit in the Atono web UI.

Want to explore before writing code?
You can try out any endpoint right from our API docs using the Try It! feature—just enter your API key to start exploring live data and responses.

This is just the beginning. More endpoints and capabilities are on the way. Have a use case in mind? Let us know in the community—we’d love to hear what you're building.

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.