Enhanced Desktop & Data Integrations
New Features
- PostHog AI Email Drafting for Broadcasts: AI now helps write broadcast emails, speeding up the creation process and reducing manual effort.
- New Data Warehouse Connectors: Import your data from Recall.ai meetings, Demodesk sales meetings, Skio Shopify subscriptions, Anvil document automation, STRATO ServerCloud infrastructure, Quo business phone data, Medusa commerce stores, Sequenzy email marketing, and Amplemarket sales engagement for deeper insights.
- PostHog Desktop Improvements:
- Attach comments with pinned screenshots to agent chats, making it easier to share precise feedback.
- Capture a region of the app window for more focused screenshots.
- Play video artifacts directly in the preview, improving media review.
- Multi-select sessions in activity lists for faster bulk actions.
- Group comment threads by source in a cleaner, lighter list view.
- Launch team skills directly from pull request reviews for smoother collaboration.
- Slack Integration: Connect Slack from any Slack picker without losing your place, streamlining the setup.
- Broadcasts Email Sender Setup: Set up and verify your broadcast email sender without leaving the wizard, helping broadcasts get sent faster.
- Task Management: Rename PostHog AI tasks from their title or actions menu, giving you more control over task organization.
- Dashboard Templates: Access dashboard templates easily from the New Dashboard menu to speed up dashboard creation.
- Customer Analytics: See when teammates are viewing accounts in the account list, enhancing team awareness.
- Marketing Analytics: Integrate Amazon Ads and OpenAI Ads data to measure campaign performance directly in PostHog.
Improvements
- Sidebar Navigation: Simplified and cleaned up the sidebar with consistent product naming and reduced flicker for starred items, improving your navigation experience.
- Broadcast Detail Page: Redesigned around key metrics with clearer status and trend information, helping you understand broadcast performance at a glance.
- Insights Chart Gallery: Faster previews and gated behind an experiment for smoother insight browsing.
- Inbox Ranking Metrics: Added precision and recall metrics to help you better evaluate report accuracy.
- Signal Inbox UX: Improved reviewer layout to show reasons clearly and reveal controls on hover for easier management.
- Events Search: If your search yields no results, suggested core events help guide you to the right data.
- Data Warehouse Sync: Full refresh scheduling for incremental tables removes manual steps to keep data up to date.
- SQL Editor: Now lists HogQL metrics in the sidebar for quicker access.
- Replay Vision: Observation search reranking improves relevance of search results.
- Mobile and Dashboard Layouts: Better layouts for narrow screens and subscription views to reduce clutter.
Fixes
- Broadcasts Feedback Banner: Aligned properly with the broadcast list for a cleaner look.
- Error and Alert Handling: Improved error messages in setup wizards for Stripe, Klaviyo, Vercel, and Shopify to guide you on next steps instead of generic failures.
- Desktop Startup & Session Issues: Fixed hangs and crashes related to local Claude sessions and background calls to ensure reliable startup and operation.
- Inbox Refund Submission: Prevent accidental refund submission when adding new lines to notes.
- Data Warehouse Source UI: Show placeholders while loading, warn on mismatched bucket URLs, and correctly report schema changes after pulling new columns.
- Dashboard & Insight Navigation: Fixed overlapping sidebars and broken back navigation on mobile and narrow screens.
- Multi-Environment Access: Prevent unauthorized access to scout source configurations.
- PostHog AI Messaging: Prevent duplicate rendering of old messages when resuming runs.
- Session Recording Playback: Support playback of recordings exported with older formats without crashing.
- Source Sync Scheduling: Pause sync schedules appropriately when discovery is turned off or tables are disabled.
- General UI Alignments: Various UI fixes for notebook title editing, suggested reviewers visibility, and inbox row removal after reviewer changes.
This update brings significant improvements to PostHog Desktop usability, expands data integration capabilities for richer analytics, and refines user workflows and messaging for a smoother experience.