reconf megaupdate - new story, revamped design, MCP and agent integrations

Hey y'all - it's been a hot minute. A LOT has changed since we launched on Product Hunt.

Thanks to you we made it to Top 10 of the day, and you all also made us realize the product we're building isn't only for analysts - but for knowledge workers in general. Personally I'm not a fan of the term, but what I really mean is "People who work on their computers and deal with a lot of daily information overload"

OK so what's changed -

First of all - the narrative.

You can check out our website for the story and some product shots but long story short we're focused on building the easiest to use journal-style notetaking app for work. Make it incredibly easy to capture information, find it again, even discuss with your thoughts from the past.

Like a second-brain that doesn't require you to enforce a very rigid habit.

Second - the app is getting a full redesign.

We're making it cleaner, tighter, less cluttered. Here's a few UI mockups I built that we're currently implementing. Also adding smarter AI features, and assisted ways to "organize" notes, quests, objectives etc.

Some of those ideas are already implemented in the app.

We'll also make the signup process smoother - essentially make it possible to first download and use the app, sign up later (so your notes get saved in the cloud).

Third - Turning your journal into agent you can set loose.

This is perhaps the most exciting development we're working on. A lot of folks have told us they'd want to make their journal notes ACTIONABLE and we see no reason why not.

We plan to implement Anthropic's MCP so you can essentially turn your journal into an agent server, let it interact with other agents.

For example:

• You're planning/working on/designing a new feature, we can send your context to your favorite code assistant eg Claude/Cursor. They can send us back context about your implementation

• You need to find information from your systems eg Confluence. With reconf actions you'd be able to task your journal to go pre-emptively retrieve information that you would go looking for/copypasting yourself anyway

• You want to send status updates to your team/colleagues. Creating recaps in the journal already works, and there's no reason you couldn't send these out to the relevant people in Slack/Teams or via email.

All of this is currently waiting to get implemented. Our first priority is to spice up the look/feel of the app so it's less tiresome to use. After that, we're diving into MCP integrations deeply.

In other news, we have ton of cool content on the blog.

Most notably our customer stories where they talk about their usecases:

• Brick by Brick - How Kate Builds Knowledge Without Constraints

• The Data Detective's Toolkit: How Miguel Captures Every Insight

• From SQL to Insights - How Juan Tames Information Chaos

  
  

For more check out reconfigured.io/blog

OKAY jeez that was a long write-up.

Thanks again for supporting us and please feel free to ask anything either here in the threads or DM me directly.

🖖 🫶

Niko & Richard