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By Andrea Di Clemente
Saturday, July 9, 2011 - 00:19
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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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By Andrea Di Clemente
Wednesday, May 18, 2011 - 23:08
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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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By Tony Mobily
Thursday, April 21, 2011 - 21:32
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Project templates with Apollo

Project templates was one of the most requested features in Apollo (up there with iCal support and reply-by-email). Well, I am very proud to announce that Apollo now has project templates. I was having a discussion with Andrea a few weeks ago, about project templates. I said something along the lines of "Well, it's pretty straightforward right? I mean, a template is just like a normal project, yes?" Andrea answered instantaneously: "What about task's deadlines that need to be different? And the activity log that needs to be generated? And the Files section that doesn't apply? And the --". I interrupted him: he was right. Project templates were tricky at best. Well, ladies and gentlemen: here they are, project templates in Apollo! Click on Projects on the left, and then on the Templates submenu:

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By Andrea Di Clemente
Saturday, April 9, 2011 - 18:22
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Yes, we are finally releasing plans!

Hello friends,

Our journey with Apollo is about to have a major breakthrough; we are excited about this, and would love to share this with you, our users. So, here is the scoop:

We are about to release plans. This means that Apollo is about to become a paid service!

There are several reasons for this -- and they aren't exactly what you would expect. The main reason is that Apollo is now a mature product. When we launched Apollo in July 2010, people asked us: "Is it safe to use? If I put my task list in there, is it going to be there tomorrow?".

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By Andrea Di Clemente
Monday, December 13, 2010 - 12:41
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Apollo: going forward, and enjoying the ride!

When we started working on Apollo, we didn't quite know what to expect. We had several possible scenarios, but nothing was set in stone. We launched Apollo on the 27th of July, and we have been sending invites out ever since. For us, having Apollo as an invite-only application was important so that we could establish some kind of contact with our users; for each one of them, we tried to start a conversation.

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By Andrea Di Clemente
Friday, September 24, 2010 - 02:40
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Waking up to a mad morning

We woke up this morning in a bit of a situation. We opened up our company inbox, and discovered some 140 emails waiting to be answered: they were invite requests.

We decided to start as "invite only" mainly because we wanted to establish a 1:1 connection with our users. That's also why we asked you to actually send us an email, rather than filling in a form with your email address: we wanted to see how you would ask for an invite, have a look at your company's website and blog, and possibly start a conversation with you.

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