The main goal of iteration 48 was to build on the (recently added) tagging features. Planner has also become significantly easier to use for teams that are adopting Kanban's "continuous flow" approach (rather than using sprints or iterations).

Planner now lets you add tasks to your story cards, by adding [ ] and [x] to your (Markdown) lists. Planner converts your square brackets into checkboxes, which you can click to mark tasks as complete.

For some time now, Planner has allowed you to organise your story cards by tagging them with hashtags.

We chose to use hashtags because they’d help us to keep Planner’s user interface clean and simple, and for the most part they worked well. It’s become clear that hashtags have their limitations, so we’ve replaced them with a more typical tagging interface.

When using Planner you can show people which cards you’re working on by adding your avatar to your cards. The intention is to make it easy to see at a glance what people are currently doing. In the past you’ve only been able to add/remove your own avatar.

Feedback from users has made it apparent that you need to be able to add/remove your teammates too, and now you can.

Planner lets you group your cards together with #hashtags. It can be hard to remember all the tags that your team is using to keep stuff organised, but Planner can know remind you which tags are in use, suggesting tags as you type...

There was one new feature (HTML tables in Markdown) and plenty of bug fixing this iteration.

One of the benefits of working with a physical card wall is that you know that your wall is an authorative version of your plan, and an accurate reflection of the team's progress. This isn't necessarily the case if your card wall is on a web page, and the focus of this iteration was to fix it.

The main focus this iteration was on tagging and grouping of cards. We've also done some more work on search, and improved the way that discussions are displayed on the card page.