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All-in-one workflow from doc to execution without the overhead of out-of-date documentation or switching tools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

Project plan first draft (this one)

Kick off meeting 🚀

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 ⚡

Milestones and tasks

Paragraphs

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

Bullets and lists

Code formatting

Timeline view
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
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on your image. ✨
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Doodle-free notes on your beautiful
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This is a little post it note on why image annotation is neat 🤓
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.
Kick off meeting 🚀
Kickoff prep
Aug 28

Highlighting ⚡
Text Formatting (WYSIWYG) and modules
Aug 28

Image annotation: it would be so useful to be able to label screenshots
Text Formatting (WYSIWYG) and modules
Aug 28

Refresh Task View with newly created tasks
FE - Task View
Aug 28

Filtering consolidation: directory, milestone, task
Design To-do
Aug 31

Empty screen for task view
Design To-do
Aug 31

Filter: completed tasks
Design To-do
Aug 31

Create a feature channel in Slack
Kickoff prep
Sep 3

Project plan first draft (this one)
Kickoff prep
Sep 3

Milestones and tasks
Text Formatting (WYSIWYG) and modules
Sep 3

Paragraph
Text Formatting (WYSIWYG) and modules
Sep 6

Bullets and lists
Text Formatting (WYSIWYG) and modules
Sep 6

Code formatting
Text Formatting (WYSIWYG) and modules
Sep 7

Show number of outstanding tasks in the task button
FE - Task View
Sep 17

Investigate group coming back for ungrouped tasks
FE - Task View
Sep 19

Show all tasks in project ungrouped, sorted by date
FE - Task View
Sep 19

How to hide completed tasks
Design To-do
Sep 19

Toolbar logic
Design To-do
Sep 21

Clicking on user icon again toggles back to "Everyone"
Design To-do
Aug 17

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 ⚓️
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Modules
Text modules ✏️
Lists and bullets 🔢
Milestone module
Pizza party 🍕
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Team roster modules
Kickoff
BE breakdown 🦉
1% launch
1% launch
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