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Hello everybody,
As you probably know, we are now working on features that are meant to enhance Apollo's openness. In terms of contacts, the first step in this direction was Apollo's email integration. This allowed you to add notes to contacts by simply sending an email to a dropbox address, or replying to a task comment by hitting "reply" in your email program.
Hello friends,
Writing project messages and comments sometimes requires more than just text. You might want to emphasise things, or maybe use some strong formatting. We were very keen on allowing this, and had several options: we could have allowed some HTML tags, or maybe could have formatted the text using Textile or Markdown (if you don't know what they are, don't worry too much!).
In the end, we opted for the solution that was easiest to use for our users: a nice visual editor where you can do basic formatting:
Apollo is all about team communication. The principle is simple: free flowing communication is more important than having somebody with a whip who knows how late everything is. Each project in Apollo has a very important "Messages" section, where communication about the project itself should ideally happen. Implementing reply-by-mail in Apollo has already made a difference to thousands of teams. Well, we went one step further: we turned our project "messages" section into something that can work more like a "forum".
Two new features have recently made it into Apollo.
The first one is gravatar support. Gravatars are global avatars that can be created by anybody on www.gravatar.com. Using gravatars is very simple: you create one, and associate it with your email address. Then, within Apollo, you can go to Settings > Account and then tick the box "Use Gravatar" in the Picture section:
We have also made it possible for you to merge two contacts.
Interaction between programs is crucial — especially in the Internet era, where lonely desktop programs are the dinosaurs, and online services can all communicate. An area where communication is especially important is calendars: people want to be able to check their appointments on their phones, and add them on their PCs for example. iCal is a great standard to synchronise different calendars in different locations. This is why Apollo now fully supports iCal.
Hi there,
In my previous post I talked about some of the improvements that made it into Apollo early last week. There is more! We worked on some elements of the interface based on your feedback. Here we go:
Time charts in time reports
When you see a time report (in the Projects dashboard), you can see what people are working on. When you click on a person's name, you now also see a pie chart that shows you which projects they have been working on.
Hi there,
Apollo is under very active development. Looking at our changelog, you can see that we are constantly adding new features, updating existing ones and fixing small problems. Reading the changelog is definitely boring -- plus, you don't get to see screenshots and pick the best of the best! So, here we go. Here are some of the new features that made it into Apollo yesterday:
Mark as unread
We all do it: we all want to virtually go back in time, and mark a message as unread so that we can answer it later.
Hi there,
Many of our users today noticed that we have deployed a new version of Apollo. Sometimes, new versions are rolled out without our users even noticing. This time it's different: we have released some major improvements. First of all, Apollo now has a new overview:
We listened very carefully to our users, while shaping the overview. The old overview had several shortcoming, and we believe we addressed most of them here.
In Apollo, you can finally see your time reports across multiple projects (instead of running a report for each project).
I am sure this is great news for all those users who use Apollo while working on multiple projects, and want to keep track of time spent across all of them. Some of our users have over 250 projects active (!).
To see global time reports, just click on the "time" tab in the Project section of Apollo:
Hi there,
We released Apollo a couple of days ago... and we are already busy releasing new important features!
One of them is task list templates, which are now available in Apollo. This is great news for all those users with set processes in place, and who have a set of tasks they complete in every project.
To create a task list template simply go open up your project: in the dashboard, you will see the "Templates" menu, which allows you to create task list templates you can reuse across your projects.
For example, if you are planning on starting a house building business, you might end up with a template like this:
