Design reviews rarely take long because of the decisions. It’s everything in between that slows them down.
Finding the right information, keeping context clear, and reworking the same details can pull attention away from the work itself. And as projects grow and more people weigh in, that friction becomes harder to avoid.
Throughout 2025, we focused on updates in Drawboard Projects that help reduce those in-between moments and keep reviews moving more smoothly.
Here’s where those improvements made the biggest difference.
When a review loses momentum, it’s usually because you’re searching for the right reference or doing small, repetitive steps that add up across a set.
Hyperlinks helped cut down the time spent jumping between sheets, details, and supporting documents. Instead of page-flipping or scrolling, you can move through a set with intent and keep your attention on the decision you’re making.
Dynamic Stamps reduced the busywork that often comes at the end of a review. Using Dynamic Tokens, stamps can auto-fill common details when you place them, so you’re not typing the same names, dates, and document information over and over. The result is faster sign-off steps and more consistent output across the set.
We also made improvements that help you stay efficient when working with larger sets in the web app, and added precision helpers like Snap to Content to speed up accurate markups and measurements without cleanup later.
If context lives somewhere else, it gets lost. A central goal this year was to help you keep the “what,” “where,” and “who owns it” attached to the drawing or document itself.
Tasks keep action items pinned to the exact location they refer to, so issues don’t drift into separate spreadsheets or inbox threads. Over the year, Tasks expanded into a workflow teams can run with:
To reduce follow-up and make issues clearer the first time, we added photos on Tasks and Issues, plus photo annotation. When you can show what you mean, you spend less time explaining it later.
For discussions that don’t need task tracking, pinned comments let you anchor a conversation directly to the drawing or document. Each reply carries the context it needs by staying tied to a specific location, and mentions make it easy to bring key stakeholders into the discussion when their input is needed.
Supporting updates like duplicating tasks/issues, improved pin behavior while navigating, and activity history were aimed at the same outcome: fewer loops spent clarifying what changed and what’s still open.
Fast reviews only matter if you can trust you’re looking at the latest information and you can package outcomes without extra steps.
Document Revisions made it easier to keep multi-page documents current without workarounds. We also continued improving comparison and review workflows, and made it simpler to share results, including exporting multiple drawings as a single merged PDF.
To reduce setup time when new drawings come in, we introduced AI upload and auto-extraction (currently in beta) to help pull key metadata during upload and cut down manual entry.
The updates throughout 2025 were guided by a consistent goal: help reviews move forward with less friction and more clarity, even as projects grow in size and complexity.
That focus will continue. We’ll keep refining how Drawboard Projects supports real review workflows, so your team can spend more time on the work itself and less time navigating the process around it.
Thank you for building with us this year, and for the feedback that helped shape many of these updates.
P.S. If you missed any releases or want to stay up to date as new improvements roll out, the Drawboard Projects newsletter is the best way to keep track of what’s new and what’s coming next.
Design reviews rarely take long because of the decisions. It’s everything in between that slows them down.
Finding the right information, keeping context clear, and reworking the same details can pull attention away from the work itself. And as projects grow and more people weigh in, that friction becomes harder to avoid.
Throughout 2025, we focused on updates in Drawboard Projects that help reduce those in-between moments and keep reviews moving more smoothly.
Here’s where those improvements made the biggest difference.
When a review loses momentum, it’s usually because you’re searching for the right reference or doing small, repetitive steps that add up across a set.
Hyperlinks helped cut down the time spent jumping between sheets, details, and supporting documents. Instead of page-flipping or scrolling, you can move through a set with intent and keep your attention on the decision you’re making.
Dynamic Stamps reduced the busywork that often comes at the end of a review. Using Dynamic Tokens, stamps can auto-fill common details when you place them, so you’re not typing the same names, dates, and document information over and over. The result is faster sign-off steps and more consistent output across the set.
We also made improvements that help you stay efficient when working with larger sets in the web app, and added precision helpers like Snap to Content to speed up accurate markups and measurements without cleanup later.
If context lives somewhere else, it gets lost. A central goal this year was to help you keep the “what,” “where,” and “who owns it” attached to the drawing or document itself.
Tasks keep action items pinned to the exact location they refer to, so issues don’t drift into separate spreadsheets or inbox threads. Over the year, Tasks expanded into a workflow teams can run with:
To reduce follow-up and make issues clearer the first time, we added photos on Tasks and Issues, plus photo annotation. When you can show what you mean, you spend less time explaining it later.
For discussions that don’t need task tracking, pinned comments let you anchor a conversation directly to the drawing or document. Each reply carries the context it needs by staying tied to a specific location, and mentions make it easy to bring key stakeholders into the discussion when their input is needed.
Supporting updates like duplicating tasks/issues, improved pin behavior while navigating, and activity history were aimed at the same outcome: fewer loops spent clarifying what changed and what’s still open.
Fast reviews only matter if you can trust you’re looking at the latest information and you can package outcomes without extra steps.
Document Revisions made it easier to keep multi-page documents current without workarounds. We also continued improving comparison and review workflows, and made it simpler to share results, including exporting multiple drawings as a single merged PDF.
To reduce setup time when new drawings come in, we introduced AI upload and auto-extraction (currently in beta) to help pull key metadata during upload and cut down manual entry.
The updates throughout 2025 were guided by a consistent goal: help reviews move forward with less friction and more clarity, even as projects grow in size and complexity.
That focus will continue. We’ll keep refining how Drawboard Projects supports real review workflows, so your team can spend more time on the work itself and less time navigating the process around it.
Thank you for building with us this year, and for the feedback that helped shape many of these updates.
P.S. If you missed any releases or want to stay up to date as new improvements roll out, the Drawboard Projects newsletter is the best way to keep track of what’s new and what’s coming next.
We are a PDF and collaboration company. We believe that creating more effective connections between people reduces waste.
Our best work has been overtaken by busywork. That’s why we’ve created ways to help people get back to working wonders without any paper in sight.
Drawboard PDF lets you mark up and share with ease, and Drawboard Projects brings collaborative design review to architecture and engineering teams.
At Drawboard, we work our magic so our customers can get back to working theirs.
We are a PDF and collaboration company. We believe that creating more effective connections between people reduces waste.
Our best work has been overtaken by busywork. That’s why we’ve created ways to help people get back to working wonders without any paper in sight.
Drawboard PDF lets you mark up and share with ease, and Drawboard Projects brings collaborative design review to architecture and engineering teams.
At Drawboard, we work our magic so our customers can get back to working theirs.
