Bulk editing of contacts in Apollo

Hello there,

I haven't written here in a while. We get a lot of consistent email feedback after posting here, and I have to say we find the communication very gratifying.

One of the features I personally talked about privately in emails a lot was the possibility to run bulk actions on contacts. Before now, if you wanted to change the visibility of 10 contacts, you had no choice but open each one of them. This was time consuming, and hardly a good way to do things.

This is why we introduced bulk actions on contacts:

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New features: Milestone completion bar and more

Hi everybody,

we are back from our short (and well deserved!) summer break, and here we are rolling out new features already.

Yesterday, we released our new "Milestone completion bar". If you go to the Milestone page of one of your projects, you will see the usual list of milestones, and for each one, a progress bar:

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More improvements: collapsed notify section, expanding comment form, new export permission

Hi there,

Software development happens in small steps. Before our deserved summer break (which is just about to end!), we released several small improvements in Apollo. We covered a some of them last week. Here is the rest:

The "notify" section is now collapsed by default

We gave this some thought, and decided that the main means of "subscribing" to a task should be by dropping a comment. This is what happens naturally in several blogs.

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What's new in your Apollo this summer: comment form at top, translation extras, HTML in project description, clear formatting

Hi there,

Apollo's development is very much user-driven. This implies that quite a few users will find here features they requested a little while ago. Here are some of the features that recently made it into Apollo?

Comment box at the top when comments are shown in reverse order

We were asked to show task comments in reverse chronological order: it was important to show fresher comments closer to the top of the page (and to the task description itself). We then realised that when showing comments this way, it made a lot more sense having the comment form at the top.

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Export of a user-specified range of contacts in CSV format

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.

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Apollo gets a visual editor for project messages and comments

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:

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Apollo has forum-like project messages!

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".

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Apollo: reply by mail and dropbox are here!

Apollo makes your life easier, by giving everybody a simple view of the “big picture” for any project. For this to work, it's important that everything about the project is kept inside Apollo. Apollo's brand new email integration makes this much, much easier. Let's have a look:

You can reply to comments to tasks by email. When somebody comments on a task, the receiving users can now simply hit “reply” knowing that their reply will become a comment to that task. Yes, it's that easy! Our users often told us how their customers weren't keen on logging into Apollo to add comments to tasks. They would go as far as replying to that comment with a private email. This is understandable, as the most natural action to respond to a comment that came by email is to simply hit “reply”. Well, “reply button it is”, you could say! Blackberry addicts will also find this very useful.

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Yet again a new Apollo: redesigned overview and Capsule import

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.

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Time reports across all projects, grouped by user

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:

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