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Octopus.do

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Velocity5.0

Octopus.do spends October on the canvas: compact layout, statuses, sticky notes, arrow labels.

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◆Current state
Octopus.do is a sitemap and content-planning tool that became agent-operable in August through ChatGPT and Claude apps, an MCP server and a REST API. September added team features; since mid-October it has shipped canvas work: a Compact layout for large sitemaps, project statuses, sticky notes that move with pages, and labels on arrows.
◆Where it's heading
After the agent integrations and team layer, the product is refining the sitemap itself as a review artifact that clients and teams can annotate and approve. The releases are small and steady, roughly weekly.
◆Prediction
Expect more review-workflow features such as approvals or status-based filtering; the entries don't show new agent or MCP work since August.

◆Recent moves

  1. 11d ago

    Labels on arrows

    Arrows between pages can now carry draggable labels like "Sign up", turning the sitemap into a basic user-flow diagram. A small canvas addition in a month of them.

  2. 27d ago

    Sticky notes on pages and sections

    Sticky notes attach to pages or sections and follow them through reordering and layout changes. It makes the sitemap usable for review comments that stay in context.

  3. 28d ago

    Project statuses

    Projects get statuses such as Draft, In review and Approved, shown on the project card. It adds a light approval workflow on top of September's team features.

  4. 1mo ago

    Compact layout

    A third Compact layout packs branches into free space, so large sitemaps take far less room. It helps the bigger projects that crawl imports and agent edits produce.

  5. 1mo ago

    Activity and notifications

    An Activity page collects comments and changes across the projects a user takes part in, with the same feed delivered by email at a chosen frequency. It is the awareness layer the recent team features needed: shared symbols and roles create cross-project change, and this makes that change visible.

  6. 1mo ago

    Shared symbol library

    Shared symbol library moves reusable elements from the project level to the workspace level: edit a symbol once and every project using it updates. A real workflow gain for teams running many related projects, and a reason to be on the Team plan.