Some recent posts at the 37signals Product Blog:
Highrise
New in Highrise: Email Notifications, Daily Digests, Dropbox vCards
We launched a collection of really useful new features for Highrise: email notifications on notes and comments, daily digests via email for Deals and Cases, Dropbox vCards, and email shortcuts.
New in Highrise: Merge companies
Highrise has always allowed you to merge two people into one person. This is handy if you have duplicates or someone spelled someone’s name wrong and there are two separate entries in your Highrise contacts. Today we launch a long requested feature: Merge companies. You can now merge two companies into one company just like you can merge two people into one person.
Using tags in Highrise to organize your customer lists
“We spend a lot of time segmenting our customer and prospect lists so that we can pull different groups out for specific marketing campaigns. We created five priority tags—keywords you attach to contacts to categorize them…We prefix them with ‘@’ to keep these heavily used tags together and sorted at the top of the list. We also create tags to track how prospects and customers have interacted with us—ie. did they download a free resource, attend a teleseminar, buy a particular product or service.”
Basecamp
Linnea’s Baby Room project managed from start to finish with Basecamp
“I created a Basecamp project for the room design, which really made it easy for Gail, Aga and I to share ideas and links in messages, to create to do lists and manage the milestones of the project from start to finish. Basecamp was especially handy for accessing information (e.g. paint color, product URLs) when we needed it most.”
Backpack
An unofficial Backpack Tips page and Twitter account
“It catalogues the tips and tricks I have learnt over the last two years or so since I became a 37signals product user and general fan.”
Multiple products
Send real time updates from Wufoo to Highrise or Campfire
“We’re constantly hearing stories about how your teams and businesses depend on the ability to react quickly to the leads and registrations gathered with Wufoo. Because of this, we are excited to be releasing a new notification platform to help you send real time updates about the entries you’re collecting in Wufoo to your favorite web applications.”
New on the Launchpad: Deep links
We added a really useful, click-saving-and-time-saving new feature to the 37signals Launchpad (part of the new 37signals ID system). We call this new feature “deep links”.
37signals tools top the list at “100 Apps for Tech–Savvy Teachers”
“More than three million people use this application for a reason — it’s extremely effective for businesses and educators. 37 Signals makes it easier to collaborate, share, discuss and get work done through its programs.”
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Bob
on 25 Jan 10You describe the Deeplinks feature on launchpad as ‘click-saving’. It saves no clicks compared to the previous method. If the list appeared on mouseover, then it would save a click but it doesn’t. It takes 2 clicks with or without this UI tweak. I agree it saves time but that’s not all your claiming. Please prove your claim.
Andrew Warner
on 25 Jan 10Check out this link for wufoo integration:
http://wufoo.com/2010/01/20/send-real-time-updates-from-wufoo-to-your-favorite-web-apps/
JF
on 25 Jan 10Bob: You can click the arrow once, hold your mouse down, move to the item in the deep link menu and release – just like menu on your computer (on OS X, at least). But mostly it’s time saving.
BackpackTips
on 26 Jan 10@JF Just discovered something I didn’t realise about deep links until following through on your comment above – how to open the link in a new tab and keep the Launchpad tab open. I use Firefox.
Usual browser behaviour to open a new tab from a link is to right-click the link then left-click the “open in a new tab” option. I was wondering with deep links why, when clicking on the arrow with the right button, then selecting the option I wanted with the left button, that it opened the window in the same browser tab. (Note the context menu that appears with the first right-click didn’t have the “open in a new tab” option.)
Then I tried your tip – I held the right-button down, moved to the item in the deep link menu and released. Magic! The context menu opened with the “open in new tab” option.
Thought it was worth sharing.
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