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Productivity & Collaboration weekly digests
- Week of July 13, 2026Figma bridges code and design while Slack SDKs modernise for Node 20
Figma lets developers bring coded screens back into design files with variables preserved, while Slack's JavaScript SDKs drop Node 18 and switch to native fetch. Notion's JS SDK adds trashed-content search.
- Week of July 6, 2026Agents everywhere
Notion released a dedicated iOS app for its Agents and made Workers shareable across teams, while Figma added parallel AI image editing and GPT-5.6 support, and Slack expanded its SDK for agent-driven workflows.
- Week of June 29, 2026Initiatives get their own properties, Slack SDKs grow up
Linear added detailed properties to initiatives while Slack shipped multiple SDK enhancements and new IDP group visibility, making for a week of platform-level improvements across two major tools.
- Week of June 22, 2026Figma Config 2026 anchors a week of bug fixes
Figma's Config 2026 announcement introduced new features and capabilities, while Slack, Notion, and Discord shipped routine maintenance updates and Linear delivered minor mobile improvements.
- Week of June 15, 2026Agents start writing your updates and searching the web
Linear ships an agent that drafts project updates, Figma's design agent can now search the web for live content, and Figma adds workspace-level publishing controls for Make and Sites.
- Week of June 8, 2026Linear Agent learns to code while Figma gets organized
Linear Agent can now write and ship code using Claude Code and Codex, while Figma introduced tab groups for organizing the desktop app and a Chrome extension that captures webpages as editable layers.
- Week of June 1, 2026When design systems police themselves
Figma's Check designs automatically flags deviations from a design system and suggests fixes, while Linear gives teams a permanent home for documents and shareable agent skills.
- Week of May 25, 2026Linear Diffs, Figma Make, and slackening guardrails
Linear launched native code review with Diffs, Figma released a closed beta of Make for visual codebase editing, and Slack and Figma shipped new guardrails and analytics features.
- Week of May 18, 2026Agents, grids, and automatic Slack channels
Figma launched a purpose-built design agent and shipped Grid to general availability, while Linear automated project Slack channels and added GitHub Enterprise Cloud support.
- Week of May 11, 2026Notion turns the page on developer tooling
Notion launched its Developer Platform with Workers, Agents API, and CLI, while Linear added Code Intelligence for agent access to codebases, and Figma Slides introduced presentation sections.