What's new in Ora 4.0

Grouping and Sorting cards
Organizing and prioritizing cards is on a new level now. Sort tasks by virtually any property out there including your custom made fields. Group up to 3 levels by list, assignee, label or milestone. Filtering by custom fields will also work for some of the custom field types.

Grouping cards by assigneeSorting cards by many properties
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Control which Card Fields you are visible
If you like to keep it simple, you would like this. Hide properties from the cards you are not interested in seeing. You might have seen this on in the Agenda view. It’s now available to you at project level.

Turn on and off fields on cards super-fast
Real-time Presence - See what your team is up to
Thanks to real-time presence you can see on what your team is focusing. A small avatar will show over the card which your teammate is currently previewing.

Real-time presence in projects and tasks
Drop attachments directly to cards
Just want to add an attachment? You don’t have to open the card anymore, just drop it in there.

New project views
Get a fresh perspective into your project with the new Project Views. Sometimes you just need a simple list, other times nothing beats a kanban board view. A table view would allow you to easily input see lots of values including custom fields. The timeline help you plan ahead and the calendar is there to help crush your tasks before their deadlines.

A new list view
Our list view has been completely redesigned to show multiple lists on top of each other. This allows you to rearrange between lists easily and follow up work on multiple lists at the same time. If you don’t want to see a specific list you can collapse it.

The design of the list view is simple we removed everything we can so that you can focus on the list. This new look is also perfect for smaller projects like a shopping or to-do list with just a few items.

A new board view
We love Ora’s board (kanban) view! Even though the board view has been completely rewritten, we added a new minimal look but we kept the old look as well with minor visual changes mostly in the cards. We had to change the architecture to enable a ton of new features like sorting, grouping, and more you will read about below….

Real-time presence in projects and tasks
The new board view in action

See and drag subtasks on the board
Another reason why we rewrote the entire project was to enable interactions with subtasks. Besides seeing all of the subtasks, you can drag tasks on top of one another to add a subtask. Or drag out of a task to remove the connection. Paired with the option to hide subtasks from the board this could be a powerful organizational tool. Hide subtasks from the main board and you will see them only in an expanded parent task.

Table view
Want to see it as a spreadsheet? Now you can with the brand new Table View in Ora. With the help of filters, grouping and sorting you can see exactly the tasks you are looking for. It does not matter if that is a label, an assignee, the status or something else entirely. You choose the columns and yes, it supports custom fields.

Table view / Grid view in Ora task management
Seeing is only one half of it. Table view is also extremely useful for inputing data in all the columns you choose to see.

Timeline View
Stay on top of sprints, milestones and all the moving pieces with Ora Timeline. You might be familiar with the Global timeline view, this is the same one but on a project level. The powerful project filters work over all tasks shown on the timeline.

Timeline inside project
Calendar View
Start your day without any surprises. Nothing beats a Calendar when you have important due dates related to your project. The new weekly view will help you zoom into your work week like never before. With some extra tweaks to the Inbox you can now specify a single list for the tasks in the inbox which is really useful if you focus on 1 list at a time. Since it’s in the project project filters also work and can help you limit work you just one person’s tasks at a time.

Calendar weekly view inside project
What other views will be useful to you? Share in the comments!

Keyboard Navigation
One of the milestones for Ora 4 was to be able to select, open and move cards only with the keyboard. Let’s first remember some shortcuts. Cmd/Ctrl + 1,2,3 you open your pinned projects.
“g l”, “g b” you go to list or board views. The new views are as follows:
Navigating cards: ← ↓ ↑ →
“g c” - calendar, “g t b” - table, and “g t m” - timeline. See? It’s easy to remember those.
And here is where it gets interesting:
Moving focused cards: alt (option) + ← ↓ ↑ →
Collapsing/Expanding parent tasks: shift + ← →
Open card / Open card (table) ⏎ / mod + ⏎
Input / select in focused cell (table) ⏎