Without it
Each app is an island. The same client is typed in twice, the project in Deliver and the quote in Quote are related only in your head, and there is no single place that shows what is happening.
09 · Connect
Shell
The operating environment across every app.
Included with any app
The thread
One client, one project, across every app.
Included, always
No charge, with any app.
One sign-in
Per workspace, not per seat.
Who it is for, and why it matters
Who it is for
Everyone using more than one app, which is most people by the second month.
What it does
The operating environment across every app.
Why it matters
Eight tools that do not speak to each other are eight places to retype the same client name and eight chances to get it wrong.
09
Not a station
It sits across the sequence rather than in it.
0
Rupees
Included with any app, at no charge.
8
Apps it connects
And the thread that runs between them.
What changes
With it
The environment the apps run inside: one client list, one project, one thread of activity, and the trail that connects an invoice back to the enquiry it started as.
What it does
- Unified home, work, clients, files and activity across every app you own
- Universal search and a command palette that reaches every object
- Project memory: the whole story of a project, across apps, in order
- Ask Shell, which answers from your own objects and links back to them
It replaces: Retyping the client into the second app · Nine browser tabs.
Where it sits
Shell is not a station in the sequence. It sits across it.
Questions
- Do I pay for Shell?
- No. It is included with any app, because an app on its own with nowhere to run is not a product.
- What if I only ever use one app?
- Then Shell is quiet and stays out of the way. It earns its place when there is a second one.
Start with any app
Shell comes with whichever app you start with, so the way to get it is to pick one.