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By Tony Mobily
Tuesday, January 17, 2012 - 22:29
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Tag management in Apollo

One of the most requested features as far as Apollo's CRM was the possibility to manage contact tags within Apollo.

One typical scenario is having a contact with a mispelled tag: Apollo's auto-completion basically means that that spelling mistake was given as an option to the users every time.

Implementing tag management was trickier than one can imagine. One of the big issues is about visibility of contacts. For example, you might have Contact X with tags A, B, C and Contact Y with tags C, D and E. Assume you only have access to contact X. If you change tag A, it's all fine.

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By Tony Mobily
Monday, January 16, 2012 - 10:54
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News on development: what's new in Apollo?

When you work on your car, sometimes you do things that really show: a paint job, shiny new handles, etc: everybody will see them. Some other times, you might add some fancy indicator to the dashboard: every user will notice them. Finally, sometimes you need to work on the engine itself: nothing changes from the outside, and the car is still the same car as ever. However, the engine is happier and will run for longer.

Well, over the last 2 weeks we have been working on Apollo's engine. We are working on the major update of one of the main Javascript libraries we use.

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By Tony Mobily
Friday, December 30, 2011 - 22:37
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Apollo tips&tricks: power-user gems for Apollo users

In this blog, I continue my journey in the less-known features of Apollo.

Trick 1: Avoid trailing garbage when replying by email

When you reply by email, Apollo does its very best to eliminate any trailing sentences from your email client.

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By Andrea Di Clemente
Wednesday, December 21, 2011 - 11:40
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Attach a contact to a project in Apollo

We were often told that most projects belong to one of the contacts in the address book. That's why one of the most requested features in Apollo was the possibility of creating a link between a contact in your address book and a project.

This is now possible.

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By Andrea Di Clemente
Monday, December 19, 2011 - 19:42
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File revisions in Apollo projects

Files are a really important part of a project. In Apollo you can upload files to comments, messages and projects; this feature is critical as sometimes — as they say — a picture is worth a thousand words.

However, files attached to projects tend to change and evolve.

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By Andrea Di Clemente
Wednesday, November 30, 2011 - 14:24
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Apollo's affiliate program is here!

Some things slip. Programmers are not perfect, and with just so much going on with Apollo's development, sometimes we make mistakes. Well, the "Affiliate" entry in the Settings menu was a bit of a slip.

When that entry appeared, we had a lot of enquiries about the program. Users seemed to be most worried about the program being available only to US people, or having complicated forms to join.

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By Tony Mobily
Tuesday, November 29, 2011 - 10:45
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Create task by email with Apollo!

Sometimes you need to create tasks "on the fly", without worrying about logging into Apollo, select the right project, and so on.

So, we added the possibility of adding tasks by email in Apollo. That's right: you can now create tasks by simply writing a new email to the right email address.

You can create both personal tasks, and project tasks.

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By Tony Mobily
Monday, November 21, 2011 - 20:31
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Writeboards support in Apollo!

Writeboards are one of the most exciting features in Apollo this year. As you probably guessed, we use Apollo internally to coordinate Apollo's development and tasks. Writeboards were one of those features that was meant to be developed "slowly", without hurry, as they were quite involved in terms of UI and development.

AS soon as they were available as betas, something predictable but not-so-unexpected happened: we started using them; and no, they weren't polished, tested and fully functional.

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By Tony Mobily
Thursday, November 10, 2011 - 15:55
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Apollo tips&tricks: Your Applicom account

Apollo helps you manage your project and contacts, all in one. It's powerful, and highly configurable. Do you want to use Apollo at its very fullest? Then read on.

Trick 1: Your Applicom account: change your email address, avatar, password

When you are invited to Apollo and then join, you are assigned an "Applicom account". You can use this account to log into any Apollo workspace you have access to.

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By Tony Mobily
Wednesday, October 26, 2011 - 22:56
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More features: quietly create projects from templates, log time on closed tasks, create private elements by default

We are working hard on improving Apollo more and more. We will make some big announcements in the coming weeks. However, we realise that our users are feature-thirsty, and also work on smaller improvements that will tend to make your life easier -- and more fun. Let's see what they are.

Create a project from a template, without adding entries in the activity

A lot of people have very active workspaces. When a project is created using a template, the activity log gets suddenly filled up with a lot of entries.

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