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Apollo's new interactive timers: new look, and ability to edit them!

Interactive timers are a great tool: you can start a timer, get on with your work, and let Apollo do the time-counting for you.

However, while timers are perfect, humans are not as several things can (and do) happen:

• You start your timer too late (you start working on a task and then remember to start the timer!)
• You forget to pause a timer (you get distracted, are back 15 minutes later, and notice that the timer is still going)

For these cases, you need to be able to edit interactive timers once they have already started.

This is exactly what we implemented in Apollo &mdash

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Improved search on contacts (now by field)

When you deal with a lot of information, searching is indispensable. We have recently improved searching within projects, and decided to improve the search in the CRM side of Apollo.

This led to a considerable rewrite of the search abilities of Apollo's CRM, which now allows you to select which fields you will search into:

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Sort options in My Tasks, Gravatar in HTTPS, API now allows creating projects from templates

Three minor features landed on Apollo in the last few weeks: they are not game changers by any means, but they do improve our beloved program.

The first one, is the possibility to order your tasks by project + task name, and by project + task due date in the My Tasks section:

This kind of grouping is crucial for people who work on several projects and want to be able to divide (by project) and conquer their task list.

An unrelated improvement is that Gravatars (which can be as

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Personal settings: set default due time for tasks, default view of contact list

Our users often ask us to add possible settings so that Apollo fits their workflow.

On one hand, we don't want to add a million settings which, in the long run, become unmanageable (or even conflicting!). On the other hand, requests often do make sense.

We have recently added two personal settings:

Set default due time of tasks. When you create a task, you often don't bother setting the exact time you want your tasks to be done by. However, you might not like Apollo's default due time (9:00AM).

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PDF preview in Apollo

Uploading files is one of the central features in Apollo. Knowing that you need to design a leaflet with set prerequisites is great. However, at some point you will need to show that leaflet to the customer, and will most likely attach it to a comment, asking for input.

One aspect of file upload is that you expect to see a preview of the file you are downloading before actually transferring the whole thing onto your computer (similarly, most desktop file managers will show images' thumbnails when you open up a folder).

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Auto-saving of drafts in Apollo

In web applications, we all have a bit of a fear of losing our current window in the middle of writing a long text. A browser window can be lost for a number of reasons (the dreaded "back" button, a lost connection, or simply the wrong keyboard or mouse stroke that gets the current window out of the picture).

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Turn a company into a person and vice-versa

When you create a contact, you can decide if you are adding a "person" or a "company".

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Various improvements: writeboard notifications, API and search improvements

Apollo is becoming more and more mature; a program's maturity is measured by its stability and its features.

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Archive project messages in Apollo

Apollo is all about communication. We have slowly improved project messages to the point that they became a forum-like system where the most recent discussion would bubble up to the top.

We have recently added yet a new feature to messages: the ability to archive them:

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UZoom media improves their management, and secures new clients thanks to Apollo

UZoom Media is an internet marketing agency working on all aspects of promoting businesses online. UZoom has several sales people, web designers, writers, implementation specialists, and graphic artists.

Anne Craft writes about their work, and their life before Apollo:

"When building a website, for instance, there are many different types of information that we need in order to get started. FTP information, hosting information, logos, branding colors, keywords, pictures, website copy, etc.

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