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In this blog, I continue my journey in the less-known features of Apollo.
When you reply by email, Apollo does its very best to eliminate any trailing sentences from your email client.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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When we designed Apollo, we always saw the CRM part as a section where CRM users would write notes about their customers and would assign tasks mostly to themselves, with things to do.
However, Apollo is all about cooperation, and we soon discovered that CRM users wanted to work together, assign contact tasks to each other, and talk about those tasks to each other.
This is why we made it possible to subscribe other CRM users to contact tasks:
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A few users seem to have projects with many tasks. While we don't limit the number of tasks and task lists, the interface can get a little challenged when dealing with a lot of them.
That's why we recently added the option to collapse task lists:
