Let me explain why badly.
Iām a product manager on the team behind Smart Spreadsheet for monday, and recently we launched something new: Board Email Reports.
After 20 user interviews, countless forum deep-dives, and hours spent exploring the marketplace, we identified a few core problems:
- monday.com boards are dynamic and constantly evolvingāwhich makes it hard to track whatās actually changed
- The Activity Log is noisy and overwhelmingāitās tough to see how exactly your project deliverables evolved over time
- The Updates section is where the real project status livesābut thereās no easy way to report on it, especially externally
- Thereās still no simple way to get a snapshot of your board at a specific moment in time
- And perhaps most importantly: stakeholders outside of monday.com usually donāt want to proceed to mondayātheyāre unfamiliar with the platform and just want a clear, actionable update in their inbox:
Reflecting on these pains, we built Board Email Reportsāan app that tracks board and item updates over time and delivers them in a clean, familiar format: an XLS report via email, no guest access needed.
What it does:
- Shows how key project deliverables (column values) changed between the start and end of a selected period
- Aggregates new, completed, or updated items so you can track project momentum
- Highlights item-level updates so you can monitor daily or weekly progress
- Makes progress easy to share with clients or teammates who arenāt in monday.com. But hereās where weāre stuck:
Weāre not getting enough feedback to confidently move forwardš.
Weāve:
- Reached out to users who installed the app
- Contacted people who received reports (sometimes theyāre different users)
- Made improvements based on early feedback:
- Clearer email subject lines
- Included all the columns in the Item Created report with all the fields from a board:
But itās still hard to tell:
- Are we solving the problems the right way?
- Did we miss something critical?
- Are users not seeing value in reports like these?
So Iām turning to this amazing community.
If youāre a project manager, team lead, or operations person who tracks project changes over timeāweād badly need YOUR your feedback.
In case you are even up for testing the Board Email Reports app, our team has a bonus waiting for early adoptersājust reach out to our team to get it.
And if the reports donāt quite match your needs, letās build the right ones together. Weāre open to creating custom report solutions based on real-world workflows.
This is my first app launch, so any feedbackābig or smallāwould mean the world.
Thanks for reading! Iām happy to answer questions or hop on a quick call anytimeā¤ļø.