productivityatlas.Retrospective record / 100 entries
Launches, studies, price changes, shutdowns and working methods, recorded with the original announcement or paper and read for the friction.
Historical event dates and source dates are separate from the preparation date of this local edition. Every entry is a retrospective draft prepared 16 September 2026; none was published on its historical date.
100 entries
Google's 2004 announcement and current help pages show what a 1GB inbox promised and what searching instead of filing costs later.
Trello's own history page and guide date the 2011 launch and show what a board tracks and what it leaves out.
Evernote's current pages and a 2022 acquisition report date the 2008 shift and show what capture-everything costs later.
Dropbox's about page, a 2018 SEC filing and a 2009 report date the 2007 founding and 2008 public debut.
A 2013 VentureBeat report and Slack's 2019 prospectus date the preview and the launch that followed it.
A 2020 SEC filing and a 2012 TechCrunch report date Asana's founding and its November 2011 public launch.
IFTTT's own pages date its 2011 launch and show what a single trigger and action can and cannot do.
A 2012 local report and Zapier's own help pages date the launch and describe the Zap mechanism.
Notion's own philosophy page and a March 2018 Product Hunt record date the block-based relaunch.
A February 2015 TechCrunch report and Airtable's own docs show the pitch and where the spreadsheet analogy breaks.
GitHub's 2021 preview and 2022 pricing show what an AI pair programmer promised, and what its own docs say it still does not know.
Notion's 2023 launch priced an AI add-on per seat, and its own guide lists why an assistant's output still needs checking.
Microsoft's March 2023 announcement explains what grounding in the Microsoft Graph means and what an admin sets up first.
Three announcements across a year show what each release added and why a renamed product needs rechecking against what you bought.
OpenAI's own plugin repositories confirm the feature was superseded by GPTs, a caution about building on a rented platform.
Zoom's own guide and support pages describe what AI Companion generates and does with meeting content, without a hands-on test.
Canva's own announcement lists what Magic Studio bundled, and its page today shows how far the branding has already moved on.
Adobe's own product and legal pages describe what Firefly trains on and where its commercial-use promise stops.
Microsoft's own documentation lists what Intelligent Recap generates and from what, and which licence it requires.
Cursor's own documentation describes an agent that edits files and runs commands, with checkpoints for recovery rather than approval before action.
Cognition's own announcement and technical report show what the SWE-bench score measured and how much of the test set was actually run.
Anthropic's announcement and current documentation describe a terminal coding agent launched as a research preview in February 2025 that asks before acting.
OpenAI's May 2025 announcement sandboxes each task but states that manual review before integration remains essential.
Replit's own announcement and documentation describe an agent that builds and publishes an app, with checkpoints, not code review, as the safety net.
Both platforms' current documentation describe code review as an available choice, not a required gate, between a generated app and a live one.
n8n's own Sustainable Use License permits internal and personal use of the self-hosted source, and restricts turning it into a paid service.
Make's year-in-review, not the original announcement which is no longer live, is the surviving primary source for the 22 February 2022 rebrand date.
Zapier's own announcements for Central and Agents describe autonomous action across connected apps, with review that checks activity after the fact.
Microsoft's documentation for Copilot Studio describes low-code agent building and governance controls kept in a separate admin centre.
A preregistered experiment measured time and quality on real writing tasks, not long-run job performance.
A staggered workplace rollout measured resolved chats per hour, with gains concentrated among newer agents.
A 758-consultant field experiment shows performance gains and losses depend on task type, not effort.
A randomised trial of 16 open-source developers found AI tools added time despite predictions of speed-up.
A 95-developer experiment timed one task; a 2025 randomised trial found the opposite in a different setting.
A 31,000-worker survey documents strain and appetite for AI; it is not a measured productivity result.
A lab study of 48 people found interruptions sped work up while raising stress, not the reverse.
MIT NANDA's report is a preliminary, interview-based study; its headline figure travelled further than its method.
Linked survey and register data rule out earnings or hours effects larger than 2%, two years after ChatGPT.
OpenAI's 1 February 2023 announcement set ChatGPT Plus at $20 a month, a price that has outlived its place in the lineup.
A 2023 announcement set Microsoft 365 Copilot at $30 a user monthly, ahead of an eligibility list that has since grown far wider.
A 2025 announcement bundled Gemini into Workspace plans, cutting one combined price while raising the base rate by $2.
A 2022 change replaced Slack's free-plan message ceiling with a rolling 90-day history limit that still applies today.
After Bending Spoons agreed to acquire Evernote, a 2023 post raised subscription prices for the first time in nearly seven years.
GitHub's December 2024 free tier opened Copilot to any account, capped at 2,000 completions and 50 chat messages a month.
Canva's September 2024 move to per-seat Teams pricing drew backlash, and an October pricing promise restored some rates.
After a February 2024 terms update alarmed users, Adobe posted June 2024 clarifications on generative AI and content access.
Facing an EU competition inquiry, Microsoft's 2023 announcement offered Microsoft 365 suites without Teams at a lower price.
The FTC's 2024 rule required easy cancellation, but an appeals court vacated it in 2025 over a procedural failure.
Google's own posts date the closure and the Takeout export, showing what depending on a free reader costs when it ends.
Google's own consumer and admin posts date the wind-down and show what 'merged into Gmail' actually meant.
Microsoft's 2015 acquisition post and its lifecycle record bracket Wunderlist's life and what buying a tool actually promises.
Microsoft's announcement and support page date Skype's retirement and what migrating to Teams Free does not carry over.
Evernote's own posts date the Bending Spoons acquisition and the pricing update after it, showing what an owner change means.
A 2020 report on IFTTT's Pro launch and today's living plans page show how a free tier's terms can tighten more than once.
OpenAI's GPTs announcement and Zapier's own sunset notice date the plugin wind-down and what builders had to migrate.
Google's wind-down post and support page date Jamboard's staged retirement and the partners it pointed users toward.
Obsidian's own site and documentation describe a plain-file note system and what local-first still costs in convenience.
The method's own materials define capture, clarify, organize, reflect and engage; no independent study of it was found.
Cirillo's own materials frame the 25-minute interval as one part of an estimation and tracking system, not the whole method.
The method's own FAQ defines migration as the deliberate friction that decides what is worth keeping on the list.
The publisher dates the book to January 2016; interruption research supports a narrower, more subjective cost than the book claims.
The manifesto and its principles name no tool, ceremony or metric that software vendors later built around its name.
The guide's own revision history shows subtraction, not addition, while leaving estimation and metrics undefined.
The Kanban Guide traces itself to a 2010 book, but most board software skips the work-in-progress limit it names as essential.
Forte's own description and a 2023 standalone edition define the four categories; retrieval within them is left unsolved.
The 2020 settlement records what Zoom claimed about encryption and what a security programme now requires.
The terms of service effective 11 August 2023 exclude meeting content from AI training, showing what a data-use clause should say.
Slack's privacy-principles page requires opt-in consent before generative AI training and offers an opt-out from global models.
Continuous screenshot search shipped as an opt-in feature after May 2024's design drew security criticism.
California's recording statute and the federal wiretap act show why a meeting assistant needs a consent policy, not just a toggle.
Google's privacy documentation separates prompt handling from training, and leaves retention length to admin settings.
The AICPA's own reporting on rushed SOC engagements shows why a compliance badge needs reading, not just trusting.
A February 2022 report on Google's auto-enrolment drive shows why a security default outperforms advice alone.
UK government and NCSC guidance describe the actual risks of employee AI use and what a written policy needs to cover.
Calendly's own materials date the company to 2013 and describe how a scheduling link reads and writes a calendar.
Atlassian's 2023 announcement said Loom would stay standalone while feeding video into Jira and other tools.
Adobe and Figma's statements and the UK regulator's case record show why the 2022 merger agreement was terminated in 2023.
Miro's 2019 rebrand post explains why RealtimeBoard changed its name, months before remote work made whiteboards common.
Linear's own documentation sets out an opinionated method: write issues directly, skip user stories, then execute fast.
Superhuman's own materials date its mail client to 2014 and record its 2025 consolidation into a Grammarly-owned brand.
Raycast's own documentation dates its 2020 public beta and sets out how its extension store screens for privacy and security.
The Browser Company's letter to Arc members states the browser gets only security updates while it builds Dia instead.
Readwise's 2022 public-beta post and documentation describe a reader whose highlights are meant to leave the app.
Todoist's documentation describes list, board and calendar views on one task model, with clear limits on export and backup.
Microsoft's announcement states Python calculations run in an isolated Azure container, not the user's device, changing what sharing a workbook means.
Microsoft's Wave 2 announcement states Copilot in Excel reached general availability and dropped its table-only limit on 16 September 2024.
Google's 2006 announcement and the earlier Writely acquisition post show what real-time browser editing added, and what it assumed about ownership.
Microsoft's 2011 launch announcement records Office 365's price range and its shift from owning software to a recurring subscription.
The original 2004 Markdown pages state a plain-text readability goal that a decade of divergent implementations would later test.
CommonMark's own history and its dated specification versions show why an ambiguous format needed a strict, testable grammar.
ISO and OASIS records describe what ISO/IEC 26300 defines and how an open schema differs from a guarantee against lock-in.
Google's NotebookLM announcements describe source-grounded answering with citations, and the accuracy limits the company admits itself.
Google's own announcements record AI Overviews' May 2024 rollout, the errors that followed, and the fixes the company says it made.
Apple's announcement and its technical blog describe how Writing Tools splits processing between a device and an audited private cloud.
Apple's 2024 announcement explains what runs on the phone, what leaves it, and which hardware the split actually requires.
Field experiments at three companies and a Google trial both measured real coding work, with different designs.
Mozilla's own posts date Pocket's closure and export window, showing what a well-documented shutdown still requires.
The framework's promoters disagree on the year Google adopted it and offer no named study for its claimed effect on performance.
FranklinCovey's own page on the urgent/important distinction, dated to 1989, never mentions Eisenhower at all.
A February 2025 announcement completed a boundary keeping core cloud data and support data inside the EU and EFTA.
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