Week of August 03, 2026
GitHub issues are first-class Work Items now, linkable straight to Changes and Themes, and the Delivery graph lines up with Theme Detail so relationships read the same in both. Desktop previews moved into a resizable in-page panel. Highlight: an external GitHub issue can carry a theme and a roadmap position.
In this edition
GitHub issues become Work Items
Last week a Theme could produce a Work Item and push it out to GitHub. This week the traffic runs the other way. A GitHub issue arrives as a first-class Work Item and connects directly to Changes and Themes in Delivery, so something that started life in a repo can be tracked, linked to planning, and put against a roadmap theme without being retyped as a second record.
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Work Items also stopped behaving differently depending on where you looked at them. Detail view and timeline view now agree, which sounds like housekeeping until you have followed a history through both and found two versions of it.
- GitHub issues represented as first-class Work Items
- Direct linking from a Work Item to Changes and Themes in Delivery
- Consistent Work Item behavior across detail and timeline views
- Delivery graph aligned with Theme Detail: shared themes, direct theme links, clearer relationship stacks, independently sized branches
- More reliable links and detail layouts across Theme Detail and Delivery
Previews open where you're working
Desktop previews no longer slide in from the edge. They open in a resizable in-page detail panel, while mobile and tablet keep the drawer, which is the right shape for each. Drawer width and in-page width are remembered separately, so switching devices doesn't overwrite the layout you set on the other one.
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Keyboard handling caught up too. Esc closes an inline preview and hands focus back to the list or board item you opened it from, so you can move through a catalog without reaching for the mouse between items.
- Resizable in-page detail panel for desktop previews, drawer retained on mobile and tablet
- Drawer and in-page widths remembered independently
- Esc closes an inline preview and returns keyboard focus to the originating item
Stories gets room to breathe
The Stories canvas runs edge to edge now, and the list and board surfaces line up with the in-page detail instead of sitting at their own margins. Content margins across the Feedback Inbox and Themes were standardized to 24 px, with an optional responsive 3% setting if you prefer the spacing to scale with the window.
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- Stories canvas extends edge to edge, with list and board surfaces aligned to in-page detail
- Default content margins standardized to 24 px across Feedback Inbox and Themes
- Optional responsive 3% margin setting
- Stories catalog scrollbar moved into the right gutter so browsing no longer shifts the layout
Filters and cards line up
Stories filters apply across the catalog and the in-page detail at the same time, so a filtered list and the thing you opened from it no longer disagree. Sources search and filters moved into the same full-width row above the Kanban and detail split that the catalog already uses.
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Sources Kanban cards were rebuilt to match the quieter, text-led design that Feedback and Themes use. One card language across boards and lists.
- Stories filters apply to both the catalog and in-page detail
- Sources search and filters share the catalog's full-width row above the Kanban and detail split
- Sources Kanban cards match the text-led card design used by Feedback and Themes
What this means for you this week
- Track a GitHub issue against the theme and roadmap position it belongs to, without creating a second record for it.
- Read the same relationships in the Delivery graph and in Theme Detail.
- Preview on desktop without losing the list, and close with Esc back to where you were.
- Filter once and have the catalog and the open item agree.
If you want a walkthrough of GitHub issues as Work Items, or the new desktop preview panel, reply here and I'll set up a quick demo.