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By Andrea Di Clemente
Wednesday, June 25, 2014 - 18:37
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3+ new ways to organize your tasks, new task design and more

Today we're releasing some major features for Apollo. They will let you manage your tasks more efficently and stay more organized.

Custom grouping, sorting and filters

Let’s face it: task lists don’t always cut it; sometimes you just want to slice and dice your tasks as you see fit.

With this update, you can now group your task anyway you like.

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By Andrea Di Clemente
Wednesday, April 2, 2014 - 17:50
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Requests from our users that made into Apollo lately

Hi there!

In our quest to make Apollo increasingly better and more functional to your needs, here's a list of new feature and enhancements that have been requested by some users and that we've brought to you with our latest release:

  • Archived projects are now marked as such in the search results.

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By Andrea Di Clemente
Tuesday, March 18, 2014 - 16:34
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Quick create case and deal tasks

Hi there!

those of you who are using the Add Task modal dialog a lot, rejoice!

As you may already know, the Add Task modal dialog is a handy dialog you can reach anytime by clicking on the little task icon near the timers (bottom left on the screen).

This modal dialog can be used to quickly create a task on any project or contact you have access to.

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By Andrea Di Clemente
Thursday, November 21, 2013 - 06:19
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Hide completed tasks at project opening

Hi there!

Today we're going to introduce a minor tweak, that kept being requested by our users very often. So we obliged. Hope most of you will appreciate!

As a default option, the task list page of an Apollo project has always shown the last 3 completed tasks in each list. This can be useful, in a multi user environment, to let people have a wider outlook of the latest accomplishments.

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By Andrea Di Clemente
Tuesday, November 12, 2013 - 23:25
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Import your contacts from a vCard file

Hello everyone,

today we are going to introduce a brand new feature that will allow you to import contacts directly from a vCard file, which nowadays is a common file format supported by most applications.

Import vCard

What you have to do is simply go to Settings > Import, and tick the vCard box at Step 1 (Choose the source).

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By Andrea Di Clemente
Monday, October 28, 2013 - 20:02
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A few enhancements suggested by users

Hi friends!

Today we're introducing a few new tweaks that some users have been requesting us lately:

  • now Apollo displays the original due date for completed milestones also in the milestone list. No need to do the extra click to open the specific milestone page to see it

Milestone original due date

  • when you add an important date on a Contact, and request that a task is created when the date is approaching, you'll see a bell icon next to the date.

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By Andrea Di Clemente
Sunday, August 18, 2013 - 20:45
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A new panel for contacts filtering

Hello eveybody,

one of the requests we kept receiving very often, lately, came from users who spend more time in the CRM side of Apollo.

As you know, you can already search for your contacts in many ways in Apollo: let's see them, also as a benefit for new users: there's the free search, which will do a realtime substring match in the Name, Surname and Company fields; there's the search by tags, where you can also drill down and filter on a combination of more than one tag; there's the search by field, where you can search by the value of any combination of the various fields available on contacts; and finally, there is (I should say "there was"!) the View select box.

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By Andrea Di Clemente
Monday, February 18, 2013 - 22:45
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Better filtering for the My Tasks section in Apollo

Hello friends,

today I'll talk about another nice improvement that recently made its way into Apollo's My Task screen.

The My Tasks screen already sports a very flexible filtering system at the task level: in fact you can customize the filter by task type, due date, task status and responsible party.

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By Andrea Di Clemente
Tuesday, November 20, 2012 - 10:40
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Don't display the workspace name in the login screen

Your workspace's image is what appears in your workspace's login screen. This is a step towards the kind of personalization that makes your customers feel at ease and feel that they are using a tool tightly connected to your company. (Yes, we do plan on strengthening these features!).

One of the problems we had was that sometimes the logo included the company's name.

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By Tony Mobily
Monday, November 12, 2012 - 18:21
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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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