We've successfully completed Google's rigorous, required Cloud App Security Assessment with TAC Security, and we're proud to see our new "independent security verification" badge appear on our productivity and collaboration super-app.
As more teams and businesses choose Korgi to manage tools, tasks, and talk on a single platform – using their own apps and drives! – we believe trust builds traction. This badge indicates to all of you that our app was validated by an independent security assessor to meet the integration and security requirements, as outlined in Tier 3 of Google's Cloud Application Security Assessment.
Good dog, Korgi!
Korgi adds card assignments and new Chat/Notes views and filters
Korgi's connected subtasks just got company, thanks to customer requests! Now you can assign any card on a Korgi board to yourself or a collaborator in a click. Open the card's drawer, hover over contacts, and check the desired assignee(s). Korgi creates and assigns the task in Chat/Notes.
With Chat/Notes quickly becoming our top team feature, Korgi's added two more views to keep easily managing your messages:
Board view. View all board messages in nested conversation threads.
Chron view (new!). View all messages individually, in date order. It's great for checking the latest messages, and you can expand any message to view its full thread, right in Chron.
Card view. View only the messages and threads connected to a specific card. Launch from the card, or select any Chat/Note and use the diamond icon to connect it to an existing card.
User view (new!). View only the messages that mention you - perfect for hyperfocusing. You can expand any message to view its full thread.
You also can filter any view to view all tasks or just the open or closed ones.
BONUS: Your Korgi browser tab now displays the count of new messages on your board. Try Chron view to quickly see what's happened since your last read!
Korgi adds FREE student plans for college access and success
One of the most used features in the Korgi productivity & collaboration super-app are our pre-built boards/templates. As part of Korgi's commitment to service and impact, Korgi offers extensive pre-built boards for the college application process, including:
First-Year College Apps (2024-25): includes the application steps, links, and deadlines for dozens of U.S. colleges, including many leading private universities, state schools, HBCUs, and schools with high financial aid need met. Students can calendar deadlines, create essay docs, chat with advisors and family, and more in a single click, directly from their boards. And they can share it all with family and advisors helping them along the way. It's a simple and powerful command central for the college access experience.
FAFSA® Completion Guide: includes the steps and links for students and their families to complete the FAFSA®. Applicants and family members can easily answer the questions, upload or create necessary documents, and chat and create tasks throughout the process.
As regular decision deadlines continue to approach, Korgi is offering a FREE ACCOUNT to students to save hours of time, confusion, and inefficiency as they navigate their applications. Enjoy two boards, including at least one of the templates, integrated Google apps (including Gmail, Docs, Sheets, Slides, Contacts, and Calendar), integrated chat, and sharing – using your own apps and stored to your own Google Drive. The free Korgi College plan subscriptions last until June 2025.
Advisors, Korgi has prebuilt boards for you, too, including a launcher board where you can easily assist and engage with all your students through each step of their applications. With every student using the same template and Korgi managing sharing, you'll eliminate the stress of sifting through and acting on dozens of texts, emails, and document sharing invites. You'll still receive emails, we know!, and you'll be able to add them as tasks or to student cards in a click, right from your board. Get back the time you want and need to advise your students – and talk to us about building a custom dash for the data you need to optimize your processes, apply for grants, and share your incredible outcomes in reports.
Korgi Add-on is now in Google Workspace Marketplace™, plus our privacy update and new floating console icon
Korgi's officially everywhere you are in Google Workspace! Add any Gmail, Calendar event, or Drive File to a Korgi board or to your Google Calendar when you install the Korgi Add-on:
Korgi also has privacy and feature updates to share. Be sure to take the new 45-second product tour when you create a new board or open any board you own.
Privacy Policy. We've updated our Privacy Policy to advise that changes are notified via the "Latest update" date at the top of the page.
Korgi Console launcher. The "i" icon from the top nav bar now is a floating icon on the bottom right of your screen, for easy access to your favorite features: Dash (for Gmail and more), Chat/Notes, Korgi AI, Invites/Referrals, Contact Korgi, and Help.)
Collapsible columns. You asked - really specifically! - and we answered. YES, you now can collapse and expand individual or all columns to help navigate large boards.
Copy/Move columns and cards. Easily dupe and relocate them from any card drawer.
Korgi AI update. We've updated Google Gemini - expect faster, expanded responses. Per our Privacy Policy, we do not share your information to develop, improve, or train AI.
Rooting for you and your projects!
Korgi adds Gmail™, "Chat|Tasks," and private templates to your boards!
Korgi's three new mega-features will save you hours of toggling through tabs every week.
Korgi Console. First, your new Korgi Dash adds Gmail to Korgi's G Suite/Google Marketplace integrations. View and manage your mail, calendar events, files, and contacts from the Dash - and turn any item instantly into a card on your board. Korgi's unified search also lets you surface all your related Google content in one click, as you prepare for meetings and do research. Next, Korgi Chat|Tasks finally tame the content chaos of chat apps. Chat from any board, connect messages and threads directly to cards, and turn any chat instantly into a task - because that's how easy and effective chat should be! (Location: select the "i" icon on the top right of your nav bar.)
Copy and move columns and cards. That's right, now cards and columns can instantly be duplicated on the current board or copied or moved to any other one. (Location: Select the three dots – the "drawer" – on the bottom left of any card, then select the diamond-plus icon.)
Create your own templates. Can you copy a Korgi board? Of course! Even better, you can turn it into a private template to generate new boards for client projects, meetings, application and interview management, production workflows, and much more. Share templates with your team members and colleagues to spread the productivity joy! (Location: To create templates - the icon to the left of "Share" on the top right of your board's nav bar or the top dropdown menu on mobile. To use templates - on your "My Boards" page in the template section, select the "Private" tab.)
BREAKING: Korgi's pre-built college application boards updated for 2024-25!
KORGIVILLE—The productivity pups at Korgi just released this year's all-in-one college tracker boards for seniors, advisors, and families. The boards fully integrate with your own Google Workspace and MS365 apps and drive.
Advisors, serve more students, quickly and easily
Manage dozens, even hundreds, of student applicants, along with your resources and to-dos, from an easy, beautiful board. Link to every student board from your home base. You also can:
Manage your own daily tasks and bookmarks from a single board.
Create any files you need straight from the board, using your own Google or MS365 apps.
Create files in one click – everything's stored to your own Google Drive or OneDrive.
Share tasks and create and share templates for colleagues and students.
When you register for Korgi as an advisor, you also get free accounts for students - contact us for the easy steps to get started!
Students, start applying in minutes
No more hours building complicated spreadsheets (or doctoring all the inventive documents your friends share with you). Sign up for Korgi, open the template, check off the schools you want to apply to, and you're ready to begin. Calendaring deadlines to Google Calendar, creating and sharing essays with Google Docs – do it all in one click from your Korgi board.
We've prebuilt the 20+ application steps and deadlines for each school, with links, into our template.
Korgi is integrated with the Google Workspace, so you can create essays, calendar application deadlines, and upload your transcripts and resume straight to the board. Korgi saves it all for you to a dedicated board folder in your Google Drive.
Instantly share your board with advisors and family, who can easily see your progress and completed tasks, open and comment on essays, access links, and upload files.
Ask your advisor to sign up for Korgi – they get free student accounts!
We're Google Cloud Partners and Microsoft AI Business Partners. And our Chrome Extension lets you and your students easily add more items to any board with a click.
Korgi updates Terms of Service and Privacy Policy — and welcomes the Korgi Connect community forum!
KORGIVILLE—Korgi is updating its Privacy Policy and Terms of Service. Many of the changes relate to the new community forum, Korgi Connect, which has been added to Korgi's services. Other changes are for clarity and readability.
Korgi Connect is a supportive and strategic space with events, tools, and networking to help members reach their goals. There also are private discussion groups for entertainment, entrepreneurship, education and other core audiences of Korgi users.
According to Korgi, "The updated legal terms will go into effect as of April 21, 2024 at 11:59 p.m. Pacific. By continuing to use Korgi on or past April 21, 2024 at 11:59 p.m. Pacific, you accept the updated legal terms as each of these terms may apply to you, and acknowledge receipt of the updated Terms of Service and Privacy Policy."
No further action is required by users.
All are invited to join the new community, Korgi Connect, right away!
Beat the Monday blues with Korgi
It's Monday, all — how did you feel when you first turned on your computer or looked at your phone today?
A) stressed/anxious
B) tired/resigned
C) excited/motivated
If it's A or B, take a moment now to reset. Here's how:
A) means you might have started today in response to other people. Maybe you opened emails and texts and started replying, or you ran into someone and pivoted to their last-minute request. Take 30 seconds now to write down something you could do today that would give you a sense of purpose and accomplishment. Now schedule one step towards that, and enjoy the feeling of anticipation about getting to do it.
B) means you might be experience a disconnect between your current work or role and how you want to show up in and contribute to the world. Take a few minutes to think about what gives you a sense of meaning in the day. Maybe that's mentoring, or solving problems, or creating beauty. Reflect on what you're planning to do today, and find one way to infuse that meaning into one of those to-dos.
And what about C?
C) means you might be using Korgi. We're on a mission to make it easy, fun and possible to turn your daily chaos into organized, joyful accomplishment. All from our beatiful, home base boards with AI, Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 apps built right in.
Here's how to make the most of a Korgi Monday:
Create a blank board (or open your existing board, if you already track tasks).
Make the first column "Accomplishment." Add 2-3 cards of accomplishments that motivate and inspire you. Then brainstorm and add mini-actions you could take today towards any of those. Who could you call? Add them as a contact to the card. What could you write? Create a Google Doc from the card. Finally, schedule a small block of time to take that card, and add it to your Google or Outlook Calendar straight from your card.
Create a second column called "Meaning." Add 2-3 cards of what gives meaning to your day. What makes you feel whole and at your best?
Create a third column called "To-Dos" or "Tasks." Just for today. Braindump all the items on your mind, add the ones on sticky notes and in notebooks. Now take a look at the meaning column. Where are the opportunities to add that personal layer to any of those tasks. Drag the meaning cards under the tasks they match up with.
Return to your day with more of "you" infused into it. Let us know how it goes, sincerely. There's a contact button on the bottom right of every board.
BREAKING: Korgi adds a checklist board view AND Google Contacts to cards!
Korgiville—We interrupt this programming with double headlines from the To Do Dogs themselves:
Boards now have a checklist view
Checklist cards feature checkboxes to immediately archive and unarchive completed items. They're also more compact to view more cards on your screen. You can still color-code, drag-and-drop, and, of course, use the mighty drawer to launch Google and Microsoft 365 apps straight from your board. Go to Board Settings/Board Type/Checklist to enable checklist view now - you're going to love it! (You can switch any checklist back to "Standard" view in Settings/Board Type, too.)
Call and email Google contacts from your cards
Project management includes calls and emails, so Korgi just added Google Contacts to the card drawer. This is a test feature, so you'll have to grant Korgi a new Google permission the first time you try it. (It's available in Sharing still, too!) In the drawer, select the Contact icon, search for your desired contact, then add them to your card. Select the card icon anytime to view their email (select it to open your default email client) and their phone number (select it if you're on mobile or have enabled web calls in your browser).
Now back to your regular programming.
Who are we kidding - go build some checklists and add some contacts to those cards!
Korgi Releases v1.4 and more, now with Google Contacts and folder control!
KORGIVILLE—Adding Google Contacts to cards on your boards just became a walk in the park, with the familiar blue People icon now appearing in the card "drawer." In one click, add Contacts to a card, then email or call them straight from your board. Korgi v1.4 also includes ongoing design and functionality updates, including:
Making all three magnifier options (zoom in, zoom out, reset) visible in the navigation bar on wider screens;
Adding a new explainer video to the Home page;
Making sure MS365 accounts correctly use an existing Korgi OneDrive folder when connecting to a new board;
Restoring hyperlinks to Sheets exports.
Korgi v1.4.1—April 2, 2024
This version adds updated responsiveness for smaller screens, including iPads.
Korgi v1.4.2—April 3, 2024
This version updates the MS365 implementation in the back end.
Korgi v1.4.3—April 17, 2024
In addition to ongoing minor design updates and functional fixes:
The prebuilding pups unleashed new and updated templates for startups, production, education and more;
Users now can replace the default Korgi board folder with a Google Drive folder of their choosing — good dog, Korgi!
All navigation menus now include an "Invite" button so users can directly invite their friends and colleagues to save time and have fun organizing their day with Korgi.