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Navigator 2.0 — Workspaces for remote meetings
Easily share agendas, docs, notes, and action items with all attendees using Navigator’s meeting workspaces
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Good Lord. Are our lives just a series of virtual meetings bookended with liquid drugs? The product looks awesome, but it's a reflection of what a bummer of a time we live in.
@scottwwilliams we're looking at adding additional conferencing platform support in the future... uberconference, bluejeans, and others
Hi Product Hunt! I’m Tony, the CEO of Navigator. Around this time last year we released our beta, and followed up with Navigator 1.0 in January. We’re back now with Navigator 2.0, which has been fully reimagined for the work environment of 2020.
Like so many, we’ve spent the last four months taking our meetings from home. This has helped us deeply understand the challenges of running remote meetings—from keeping them organized to managing Zoom fatigue.
We’ve used our learnings to transform Navigator into the most powerful tool for running remote meetings.
Navigator 2.0 is the product we wish we had from day one. No more digging around for docs, Zoom links, or showing up unprepared—Navigator is the one place to go for everything your meetings need throughout the day.
Here’s what’s new:
▶ Shared workspaces for topics, files, notes, and action items:
Workspaces are tailor-made for meetings. They can be used to build agendas, take notes, capture action items, as well as collect relevant project docs, links, and files in one place.
▶ A desktop app that holds everything:
2.0 comes with native desktop apps for both Windows and macOS. With the desktop app, there’s always one place to go when it’s time for your meeting; agenda and Zoom links are just a click away.
▶ Access to workspaces from your calendar:
Navigator integrates with your calendar events, adding a shared link that anyone in the meeting can access.
▶ Powerful automations for busywork:
We’ve designed a package of automations to handle rote tasks, like reminding people to prepare, sending summaries, and tracking action items.
▶ Conferencing, and document integrations:
Navigator now connects with Slack, Zoom, Meet, Dropbox, Google Drive, and other collaboration platforms. You can export meeting summaries as PDFs to Drive, Box and Dropbox; message meeting attendees with one click via Slack or email; attach files directly from Dropbox, and more.
The design of Navigator 2.0 comes from working closely with our existing customers throughout the last year—and we couldn’t be more thankful for how they’ve lent their feedback and attention.
As a result, thousands of teams inside organizations like Intuit, Headspace and Plaid are using Navigator to transform their meetings. We're excited to bring Navigator 2.0 to more people and hope you get a chance to take a look.
Check it out at navigator.com—we'd love to hear what you think!
@tonydevincenzi Wow! This looks amazing on so many fronts. Congrats! And say hi to @gentry!
Hey @dharmesh! Love seeing you in here — still grateful for your support of Sold back in the day
@tonydevincenzi heads up, sharing the link currently gives the meta description "Website created using create-react-app" in the preview, at least in Slack!
Absolutely love the update. Used the previous version at another company and it's a game changer. Any word on pricing?
@tonydevincenzi wow what an update! Really taking it to the next level with some of these features. Congrats! I'm super fascinated to see how this world evolves.
Have you ever thought about taking feedback on meetings? As in, soliciting feedback from those participating in meetings to seek ways to improve those meetings?
@anna_0x throughout the last year the product has focused and is no longer primarily a virtual teamwork assistant... having a robot as our brand/identity stopped making sense. The features provided by the bot now live in the product as “automations”. There will always be a special place in our hearts for the avatar though!
@tonydevincenzi Despite never having used Navigator, the little robot avatar has left a lasting impression on me. Trying out the little demo is one of the most memorable experiences I've had checking out a new product in the past years.
While I now understand why it no longer makes sense as a logo, I admit I'm sad it's gone. The product looks a bit bland now... as in, it's not differentiated. Had I stumbled upon Navigator 2.0 without having seen the first version, I would have forgotten about the brand the next day (if not a few hours later).
That's my feedback as a non-user, so take it as you will ^-^
Personally, I loved Navigator 2.0. Is there any plan to bring this back / support the iphone app? It really was my favorite tool for running effective meetings. I'd be super happy if the app returned to the app store and it continued to be supported. Please let me know when I can use Navigator again, thanks!
@jonathan_choi1 Thanks Jon :) Yes, both of those tools are under consideration for deeper integration. Thorough integration with task/todo systems in general is something we're already looking at.
Looks super useful. Love the breakdown of action items and follow up. Could save me a great deal of time
Hi Navigator team! Congrats on the launch!
I must say I'm a fan of your video teaser. it's funny, to the point, and makes the tool attractive. However, it took me some time to understand how Navigator works and how it's different from a google calendar event. Your second video "how it works" on your website made it a bit clearer and I can see the value in having distinguishable agenda items with links and files. But then I wonder: how do you organize the follow up of action items between meetings?
Also I wanted to point out that the "learn more" links seem broken on the landing page and there are no top or bottom navigation menu to go to these pages.
@sophia_benhaddou thanks for the kind words, and for the feedback! Regarding follow up of action items between meetings, Navigator offers two automations that can help with that: (1) Action Item Tracking, which will automatically add a topic to your agenda with open action items from past meetings, and (2) Midpoint Reminders, which will check in with individuals on their open action items between meetings.
Both of these automations are designed to help drive accountability and progress between their meetings.
You can read more about best practices for handling action items in our library article: https://navigator.com/library
@tonydevincenzi I agree with @sophia_benhaddou in that the first video doesn't really give users any idea about what the service does. Without context I would've guessed that it's a shared calendar that lets users chat and send docs to each other too. The "How it Works" video should have been the main video IMO. (Also, the whistling gets on my nerves but... but that's a personal preference.)
Thanks for the link! I guess that's the one that I couldn't access earlier today on the website (but they all seem to work now). It's surpising to see that when we click on the links on the landing page, we get a blog styled page. I think I was more expecting a "features" page with screenshots.
I really like the branding and universe you created there with helpful content! I'm also in the meeting space (but more workshop or visual meeting type) so I definitely see the need for such a tool. All the best!
@sophia_benhaddou thanks, we're pretty excited about that particular part of our universe as well :) The choice behind linking directly to our library is to demonstrate that these features are rooted in meeting science, and a deep study of what-actually-works from years of research & prototyping. We'll be adding more feature description pages (and videos) to support understanding how automations work in the future
Congrats on the release team, excited to try this out on macOS! 👏🏻
The Navi bot will always have a special place in my heart 🥺💔
Congrats on the launch! Love the product - a huge help with our meetings and follow-ups!
So, I called it. It seems that from the 9th of September, Navigator will be dropped. The team are now focusing on their new product: https://play.space/
Here's hoping I can get access to that soon before my meetings become chaotic again 😅
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