One Google account per company. The Google Calendar connection used to belong to the whole workspace, so connecting a second account quietly replaced the first and moved every company onto it. A studio running two companies out of two Gmail accounts could not be represented at all. Each company now holds its own connection, its own calendar, and its own Disconnect — disconnecting one leaves the others untouched.
Calendar settings are organised by direction. Two tabs named after mechanisms — Connections and Publishing — are now four pages under Coming in and Going out. Coming in holds the calendars that fill KitSlate; Going out holds Your Google calendar, for your own accounts, and Other people’s calendars, for anyone with no KitSlate account. The Connections page had also been claiming KitSlate never writes to a calendar connected there, which stopped being true.
A calendar that blocks nothing now says so. Display only is the setting a new connection takes by default, and nothing said what it meant — so a calendar could import perfectly and protect nothing, silently. The card now reads Nothing — never blocks a date, the resource map marks the source Reaches nothing, and the control tower carries a warning with the event count.
The resource map tells the truth about a paused connection. Pausing a calendar from the control tower stopped the availability engine honouring it, but the map, the connection card and the planning sources all carried on describing it as though it still blocked dates.
Coming back from Google lands on the right page. Returning from the consent screen used to show an unrelated calendar page for a second or two while the connection finished.
A change reaches Google in seconds. A sync run that was lost in flight used to sit for up to fifteen minutes before anything retried it. Lost runs are now picked up within about a minute and a half, and the connection card says retrying when that is what is happening.
The equipment list document was rebuilt. Camera settings draw as tiles online and as a two-column typed list on paper; equipment stays one item per row. Serial numbers are internal only — visible when you are receiving gear back, never on anything sent out. A rates switch controls whether day rates print.
Nine feature pages and a hub, so a search for what you actually do has a page to land on.
The crew directory and the used-gear market are readable without JavaScript. Both were rendering their listings only in the browser, which meant search engines saw empty pages. Both now carry their listings in the HTML and grow hub pages by city, service and category.
Every email fits a phone screen. Quote, invoice, confirmation and handoff emails were laid out for a desktop window and cut off on a phone.
The homepage names the Google Calendar connection on a cold load, instead of only after the scrolling animation had started.
A new quote keeps its terms, letterhead and PO field, and Settings → Quote no longer freezes when it loads.
The crew’s brief renders correctly on a phone — the time tile no longer spills its box, and the paired frames across the public pages are one size.
The manual caught up with the app, including the calendar’s year view.
Preferences. A settings tab of your own: 12-hour or 24-hour time across every screen, document and email, and what a new project starts with — its length, where it happens, and whether the gear list shows day rates.
KitSlate has been in active development through 2026. Changes before September are described in the manual, which is kept current with the product rather than kept as a history.
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