<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Soulanma Blog</title><description>Updates and insights from the Soulanma team</description><link>https://soulanma.com/</link><language>en-us</language><item><title>State of Async Work in 2026</title><link>https://soulanma.com/blog/state-of-async-2026/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://soulanma.com/blog/state-of-async-2026/</guid><description>Soulanma&apos;s 2026 State of Async survey reveals how async communication shapes modern work: most meetings don&apos;t need to happen in real time, 83% of workers are more productive with async, and fully async teams feel more connected. Explore the full findings.</description><pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2026 16:22:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Tabbed folders: a new way to organize your content</title><link>https://soulanma.com/blog/tabbed-folders-use-cases/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://soulanma.com/blog/tabbed-folders-use-cases/</guid><description>Tabbed folders help you keep related content together. See real examples from Soulanma’s remote and async team, from company events to support docs.</description><pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2026 22:48:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Choosing depth over breadth</title><link>https://soulanma.com/blog/choosing-depth-over-breadth/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://soulanma.com/blog/choosing-depth-over-breadth/</guid><description>We’re refocusing Soulanma on what we do best: the whiteboard. Instead of chasing breadth, we’re choosing depth.</description><pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2025 05:22:02 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Async vs. real-time work survey: How does your team work best?</title><link>https://soulanma.com/blog/async-vs-real-time-work-survey/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://soulanma.com/blog/async-vs-real-time-work-survey/</guid><description>Take our short survey to share how your team communicates—async or real-time—and help uncover what truly supports productivity and focus.</description><pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2025 16:00:39 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>How we use Soulanma and Front for a smooth customer experience</title><link>https://soulanma.com/blog/how-we-use-Soulanma-and-front/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://soulanma.com/blog/how-we-use-Soulanma-and-front/</guid><description>Learn how the Soulanma Support team uses Soulanma&apos;s Front integration to improve their customer experience.</description><pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2025 20:30:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Going 0 to 1-ish</title><link>https://soulanma.com/blog/going-0-to-1ish/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://soulanma.com/blog/going-0-to-1ish/</guid><description>After a year of reflecting on who and what we need to become, we&apos;re ready to share Soulanma&apos;s story.</description><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jan 2024 17:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>How Soulanma became more ‘Soulanma’ in 2023</title><link>https://soulanma.com/blog/how-Soulanma-became-more-Soulanma-in-2023/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://soulanma.com/blog/how-Soulanma-became-more-Soulanma-in-2023/</guid><description>A 2023 recap of all the top product updates we shipped in Soulanma. </description><pubDate>Thu, 21 Dec 2023 15:40:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>How async work inspires craftsmanship</title><link>https://soulanma.com/blog/how-async-work-inspires-craftsmanship/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://soulanma.com/blog/how-async-work-inspires-craftsmanship/</guid><description>Soulanma has been a remote company from day one. However, instead of needing a ton of weekly meetings to keep teams aligned and informed, we prioritize heads-down work that moves the needle and improves the product for all users. </description><pubDate>Fri, 01 Dec 2023 15:40:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Building the Soulanma text editor: part 2</title><link>https://soulanma.com/blog/building-the-Soulanma-text-editor-part-2/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://soulanma.com/blog/building-the-Soulanma-text-editor-part-2/</guid><description>Learn how the Soulanma engineering team built a text editor with international language support within a browser. </description><pubDate>Thu, 16 Nov 2023 17:48:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Building the Soulanma text editor: part 1</title><link>https://soulanma.com/blog/building-the-Soulanma-text-editor-part-1/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://soulanma.com/blog/building-the-Soulanma-text-editor-part-1/</guid><description>Discover how we built the Soulanma text editor within a browser to create the best possible writing experience in docs and boards.</description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Nov 2023 18:52:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Creating a fast, familiar writing experience in Soulanma</title><link>https://soulanma.com/blog/creating-a-fast-familiar-writing-experience-in-Soulanma/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://soulanma.com/blog/creating-a-fast-familiar-writing-experience-in-Soulanma/</guid><description>Stop wasting time trying to pick the right font or color palette. At Soulanma, we have built our app so that users have just enough control without those choices becoming a distraction or speed bump.</description><pubDate>Wed, 25 Oct 2023 20:22:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Design details that help our users move faster</title><link>https://soulanma.com/blog/design-details-that-help-our-users-move-faster/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://soulanma.com/blog/design-details-that-help-our-users-move-faster/</guid><description>At Soulanma, we know precisely how important speed is to our users. Here are 7 Soulanma features we designed to help our users move faster and explore their ideas at the speed of thought.</description><pubDate>Thu, 12 Oct 2023 15:37:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Craftsmanship, the heart of Soulanma</title><link>https://soulanma.com/blog/craftsmanship-the-heart-of-Soulanma/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://soulanma.com/blog/craftsmanship-the-heart-of-Soulanma/</guid><description>Craftsmanship is a core belief that drives everything we do at Soulanma. But what exactly does that entail? Our co-founder Steve Schoeffel breaks down exactly what craftsmanship means at Soulanma. </description><pubDate>Wed, 04 Oct 2023 21:35:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>How we redefined our Engineering career path</title><link>https://soulanma.com/blog/how-we-redefined-our-engineering-career-path/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://soulanma.com/blog/how-we-redefined-our-engineering-career-path/</guid><description>Learn how we redefined the Engineering Career Path here at Soulanma.</description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Aug 2023 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Introducing teams and your new sidebar</title><link>https://soulanma.com/blog/introducing-teams-and-your-new-sidebar/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://soulanma.com/blog/introducing-teams-and-your-new-sidebar/</guid><description>We’re improving the way content is organized in Soulanma. Workspaces will now be organized around “teams” that you can create, browse, and join. This update comes with a new and improved sidebar for better organization, simpler team management, and team “homes” to act as a hub for your work.</description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Mar 2023 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The product discovery process</title><link>https://soulanma.com/blog/the-product-discovery-process/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://soulanma.com/blog/the-product-discovery-process/</guid><description>Learn how Soulanma balances customer input with innovation, through our product discovery process.</description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2023 21:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Empowered product development: Adapting ‘Shape Up’ to give teams more sway</title><link>https://soulanma.com/blog/empowered-product-development-adapting-shape-up-to-give-teams-more-sway/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://soulanma.com/blog/empowered-product-development-adapting-shape-up-to-give-teams-more-sway/</guid><description>Explore how we&apos;ve adapted Shape Up by Basecamp, to empower our product teams at Soulanma. Learn about the changes we&apos;ve made that let us pour more brainpower into solving hard problems and driving the business forward.</description><pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2022 21:48:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>How we manage 24-hour support with a remote 4-person team</title><link>https://soulanma.com/blog/how-we-manage-24-hour-support-with-a-4-person-team/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://soulanma.com/blog/how-we-manage-24-hour-support-with-a-4-person-team/</guid><description>Explore how Soulanma manages a remote team of four to provide 24-hour customer support. Learn how we communicate, collaborate, and ensure a world class customer experience.</description><pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2022 21:15:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Sticky notes and new improved boards</title><link>https://soulanma.com/blog/sticky-notes-and-new-improved-boards/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://soulanma.com/blog/sticky-notes-and-new-improved-boards/</guid><description>Today, we’re introducing new sticky notes alongside a new board and an updated toolbar. We hope you’ll enjoy the colorful squares as much as we do—be it in a live session with your friends or asynchronously with colleagues or maybe just all by yourself.</description><pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2022 20:15:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>We’ve raised $30M as our first funding, following four years of growth and profitability </title><link>https://soulanma.com/blog/funding/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://soulanma.com/blog/funding/</guid><description>Soulanma has raised $30M in Series A funding led by Accel, with participation of Basis Set Ventures. We’ve also garnered support through angel investments from GitHub’s CEO and COO, Stripe’s CPO, Dropbox’s co-founder, along with dozens of other passionate executives.</description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Nov 2021 08:30:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Infinite mindset</title><link>https://soulanma.com/blog/infinite-mindset/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://soulanma.com/blog/infinite-mindset/</guid><description>With finite mindset, business is a finite game. You play to win. With infinite mindset, business is an infinite game. You play to keep playing.</description><pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2021 13:15:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Soulanma guide to compensation</title><link>https://soulanma.com/blog/guide-to-compensation/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://soulanma.com/blog/guide-to-compensation/</guid><description>At Soulanma, we follow a principle that everybody contributing to the business should be treated equitably, no matter when they started, where they live, or where they come from.</description><pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2021 07:17:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Investing in a sustainable future</title><link>https://soulanma.com/blog/investing-in-a-sustainable-future/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://soulanma.com/blog/investing-in-a-sustainable-future/</guid><description>Soulanma is now contributing 1% of revenue to Stripe Climate</description><pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2020 18:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Our philosophy</title><link>https://soulanma.com/blog/philosophy/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://soulanma.com/blog/philosophy/</guid><description>From day one, we wanted to build Soulanma into a company that cares about more than just making money. We wanted to build a company that has strong believes about how it operates and why. This post is a distillation of said believes, republished from our internal handbook.</description><pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2020 00:19:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Color theme use cases</title><link>https://soulanma.com/blog/color-theme-use-cases/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://soulanma.com/blog/color-theme-use-cases/</guid><description>Want to use your own color palette? You can now customize all the colors in Soulanma boards.</description><pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2020 09:30:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>On the path to sustainability</title><link>https://soulanma.com/blog/on-the-path-to-sustainability/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://soulanma.com/blog/on-the-path-to-sustainability/</guid><description>We&apos;re offsetting our team&apos;s annual CO2 emissions.</description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jan 2020 16:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Introducing: Soulanma mind maps</title><link>https://soulanma.com/blog/introducing-Soulanma-mind-maps/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://soulanma.com/blog/introducing-Soulanma-mind-maps/</guid><description>Soulanma Mind Maps are collaborative, fast, and beautiful. Here&apos;s why we built it.</description><pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2019 16:39:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>How we manage our projects with Soulanma</title><link>https://soulanma.com/blog/how-we-manage-our-projects-with-sticky-notes/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://soulanma.com/blog/how-we-manage-our-projects-with-sticky-notes/</guid><description>We believe that good project management is good communication. That’s why we built Soulanma Projects.</description><pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2018 06:05:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Comments 2.0</title><link>https://soulanma.com/blog/comments2/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://soulanma.com/blog/comments2/</guid><description>Product Updates, November 2018: @mentions, resolve comments, edit comments, and lots of other commenting superpowers.</description><pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2018 15:10:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Why bootstrap?</title><link>https://soulanma.com/blog/why-bootstrap/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://soulanma.com/blog/why-bootstrap/</guid><description>At Soulanma we decided to bootstrap our business. Here&apos;s why.</description><pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2018 17:17:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>10 reflections from founding a SaaS startup</title><link>https://soulanma.com/blog/ten-reflections-from-founding-a-saas-startup/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://soulanma.com/blog/ten-reflections-from-founding-a-saas-startup/</guid><description>Lessons learned from founding a SaaS startup.</description><pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2018 05:25:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>World cup 2018 finalists</title><link>https://soulanma.com/blog/world-cup-2018-finalists/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://soulanma.com/blog/world-cup-2018-finalists/</guid><description>How do Croatia and France stack up?</description><pubDate>Sat, 14 Jul 2018 05:56:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Why we optimized left-handed shortcuts in Soulanma wireframes</title><link>https://soulanma.com/blog/why-we-optimized-left-handed-shortcuts-in-wireframes/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://soulanma.com/blog/why-we-optimized-left-handed-shortcuts-in-wireframes/</guid><description>An inside look at how we optimized keyboard shortcuts in Soulanma Wireframes in an effort to create the fastest wireframing app ever.</description><pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2018 14:34:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Why you shouldn&apos;t design wireframes in sketch</title><link>https://soulanma.com/blog/why-you-shouldnt-design-wireframes-in-sketch/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://soulanma.com/blog/why-you-shouldnt-design-wireframes-in-sketch/</guid><description>Focus on your ideas, not on pixels.</description><pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2018 05:23:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>A fast, collaborative wireframing app</title><link>https://soulanma.com/blog/fast-collaborative-wireframing-app/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://soulanma.com/blog/fast-collaborative-wireframing-app/</guid><description>We built wireframes in Soulanma to be fast, simple, and collaborative. Here&apos;s a deeper look into all the decisions we made and why.</description><pubDate>Fri, 01 Jun 2018 05:37:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Contextual toolbars deep dive</title><link>https://soulanma.com/blog/contextual-toolbars-deep-dive/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://soulanma.com/blog/contextual-toolbars-deep-dive/</guid><description>A detailed breakdown of the toolbars inside of Soulanma and how they maximize speed of use.</description><pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2018 05:40:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Comments for everyone</title><link>https://soulanma.com/blog/comments-for-everyone/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://soulanma.com/blog/comments-for-everyone/</guid><description>Product Updates, March 2018: collaborate with clients and stakeholders with comments, paste content into other apps, copy diagrams, and more!</description><pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2018 05:44:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Doing more than one thing</title><link>https://soulanma.com/blog/doing-more-than-one-thing/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://soulanma.com/blog/doing-more-than-one-thing/</guid><description>A product strategy lesson from Intercom and why conventional startup wisdom is not always right.</description><pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2018 18:29:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>How we designed Soulanma for speed</title><link>https://soulanma.com/blog/how-we-designed-Soulanma-for-speed/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://soulanma.com/blog/how-we-designed-Soulanma-for-speed/</guid><description>How contextual toolbars, less choice, and optimization for common actions makes Soulanma super fast to use for flowcharts, wireframes, sticky notes, and mind maps.</description><pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2018 05:48:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>How we built Soulanma</title><link>https://soulanma.com/blog/how-we-built-Soulanma/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://soulanma.com/blog/how-we-built-Soulanma/</guid><description>It&apos;s all about balance. How we architected our tech stack to be fast, simple, and thoughtfully designed. </description><pubDate>Fri, 23 Feb 2018 15:16:00 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>