Is there a roadmap for Loop features available?

Question

Loop looks interesting, especially the live-updated content sharing across channels.

I just tried it out for knowledge management, however the feature set is lacking to the point where it's not worth investing any more time just yet.

It's missing elementary features for knowledge mangement and documentation - e.g.

• hyperlinks to other pages.
• draft+publish lifecycle.
• document attachments/in-line preview
• theming, styling and user-defined templates
• code-blocks and in-line styles (e.g. "term" highlighting)
• tabsets and other non-paragraph based blocks.
• etc etc etc.

There is evidently work to be done before this gets out of beta, and answers to other questions have indicated the existence of a roadmap.

Is it possible to make public enough detail of the roadmap and the planned feature-set so that IT departments can plan around it?

Answer 1

100% what this guy said!

Answer 2

From an avid Notion user, Loop isn't there yet. They may be targeting Notion users, or at least using the principals of Notion as a foundation, but there are some fundamentals that I think are missing.

I am using Notion to track and connect 5 dimensions of work:

• Projects
• People
• Action Items / Tasks
• Events
• Content

I use each of those categories to connect to the other four, so that when I look up a meeting by date (event), I know what project is it for, who was there, what action items there were and any associated content. Or, I can look up a person and see the last time I met with them and about what. You get the picture.

Microsoft already has all of this, and I was hoping that Loop would bring it all together, because it would be so much easier doing this in the Microsoft ecosystem. I wouldn't have to manually enter meetings like I do today, they would just come from outlook. People database - already there. Planner (which I love) and One Note (which I kindof hate), are there Loop just needs to tie it all together much better, and organize it all in a meaningful way by those categories (in my opinion).

I hope this is their roadmap.

Answer 3

After writing that post, I just realized that of my 5 'dimensions', Projects is the one that is a little ambiguous in the Office360 ecosystem. I know that a Teams space or a Sharepoint site could be the hub of a project, but I feel like they are lacking the homepage or project overview page. Maybe someone out there has made this work well, I just haven't seen it yet.

I have a "hub" page in Notion that gives me an overview of recent and upcoming events, prioritized task list, people I've recently met.

If outlook calendar events could be tied to projects and Planner tasks could be tied to calendar events and projects - I think these connections are what I'm looking for... This is bigger than Loop though. It's making me think Loop is just a dumber OneNote that connects to Planner?

Answer 4

A roadmap would be great and I am assuming this is already high on the list but the search is non-existent.

https://www.reddit.com/r/MicrosoftLoop/comments/1bzem5w/search_in_loop_lacking/

Our product team of 50 (and small company of 500) was close to switching to this when we realize we couldn't because there is no search (besides searching for file names) and pumped the breaks. Like a lot of people we are looking for an alternative to confluence.