Sharing New Music on a Private Network

Looking for a simple way to share some of your music creations with others? Surprisingly, or not, not every song or musical piece needs to be created for some type of mass market, gargantuan audience, with an overkill recording studio or further promoted with a lengthy road tour.   Sometimes, you just feel like recording a [...]

Create and Share a Short Story with the Notes Application

By using the Notes application, you can create and share what you could call a journal or series short stories with others in your network.  Here’s a short walk-through of some of the advantages as well as actually getting started and setting it up. Advantages with Private Network Before jumping right into the process, here’s [...]

Rich Text Editing Added to Documents, A Streamlined List View

The Documents application has been tweaked to better accommodate more detailed descriptions of any files stored, such as from office files, photos, images, graphics, audio, music or video.   The changes include 1) rich text editing for the description and 2) removing the description from the initial list view.  As the focus of the Documents application [...]

A Tool for Giving Updates from the Road

One way to use a private network is when you’re on a trip or journey somewhere and you’d like to share the experience with maybe a few others that are too busy or have other engagements to join you at the time. This includes activities such as sharing a journal while you ago, maybe to [...]

Using Actions for a New Project

Have a new idea or project that you’d like to get started?  Here’s a little refresher on how you can do so with the Actions application. Setting up the Project Do this by creating a new folder, naming it the same as the project.   You can look at the folder as a collection of application [...]

Add Multiple Folder Owners from the Contacts Application

Aligning to the recent change within the folder overview, the Contacts application also includes the option to add multiple owners to a folder. This is shown when you click the Contacts tab followed by the new filter called Owners, as displayed in the screenshot below: What types of users should be added as an Owner? [...]

10 Ways to Use the Notes Application

As notes are so simple to use, you can easily find a use for them in just about any situation or environment.  Helpful to capture the idea that has value at the moment, so you can go back to for reference or sharing with others. Sort of the like trying to remember a nice or [...]

View all Your Events in the All Folder

As you add different events to your various projects, activities or folders, each shared with different users, you can see an integrated view of all your events from simply clicking on the All folder. These could include: Personal events that you’ve added in your own folders. Events you’ve share with others in different folders. Events [...]

Adding Users to Multiple Folders at Once

There is now a new layout for adding other users to sub-folders.   This can be helpful when either creating a number of new projects or folders, or adding a new user to your network.  Either way, you’re adding users to many different folders at the same time, making it a little easier to share content [...]

Getting Focused with the My Actions Filter

So a new project starts off small, maybe 5-10 main actions that can be done with 2-3 people.  If the project is exciting or seems to be resonating with people, or with a larger event that’s getting closer to show time, that initial project can easily grow from that initial small group to 10-20 or [...]

Enhanced Format for Viewing Photos, Graphics or Images

To better see pictures or other graphics on your network, the uploaded image is now displayed front and center in your item details view, here’s a screenshot of the new layout: This is a custom change just for the images stored within the Documents application.  From this view you have the following options: Viewing the [...]

Manage Multiple Projects with Sub-Folders

By being a little creative with the folder layout and some filtering options, you can set up a range of projects both big and small. This can be helpful from either having a cornucopia of projects ready to go, or starting with a small seed of a project and finding it growing too big, need [...]

Moving a Note from a Private Folder to a Shared Folder

This can be helpful when initially adding an idea or note in one of your more private folders, but later decide it’s ok and would be a good idea to share with others.  While you could just share the folder, if the folder contains other content you’re not yet ready to share, this might not [...]

View Actions in a Slideshow, Sorted by Priority

The slideshow feature has now been added to the Actions application.   This can be helpful to go through a list of actions in a specific folder, such as for an active project you’re working on or an event being planned. While you can set up the slideshow to be in a few different orders or [...]

Customizing the Slideshow Views

One of the nice features of the slideshow feature is being able to launch it from whatever list view you’re currently looking at. Anytime you click on an application you’ll see the initial view, sorted alphabetically by the item (action, note, event, etc) name.  If you click the slideshow button, the slideshow will be shown [...]

23 Ways to Use the Alerts Feature in Events

While you can use the Events application for scheduling any and every event that you might come across, as well as events that others in your network have shared with you, some events you might want to pay a little more attention to.  These are events that are different from the others, most often where [...]

Create a New Folder and Share with Others at the Same Time

To make adding users to new folders a little easier, you can now do so at the same time as when you’re creating the folder. Creating a New Folder This is done by first clicking the appropriate parent folder (in a new network this would be the “All” folder). Once the folder is selected, click [...]

Viewing Your Upcoming Events from Bottom Toolbar

To make it easier to view any of your upcoming events, you can now see more than just your next upcoming event from the events viewing shortcut.  Just click on the current event listed and any other events will be shown as below. From this you can see the name of the item, the start [...]

Keeping Informed of Upcoming Events with an Email Alert

Now for any events that you’ve saved in your network, you can add an alert, or email reminder, to help provide a quick notice before the event actually occurs. This can be helpful in a number of situations, some examples: Small Business: Set an alert for an upcoming customer meeting one day ahead of time, [...]

Viewing the Duration of Audio and Music Files

Now for any audio or music files that you’ve uploaded, you can view the duration or length of the file or song.   This can be helpful for aspiring musicians to share their latest recording within their own private network, or for students sharing lessons learned with their instructors. To view your music files with the [...]

New Viewing Options for Photos and Images

You can now share your photos and images a little easier with some of the new viewing changes available in the Documents application.   These include an appropriately sized preview as well as the full screen option if needed. This can be helpful for sharing trips or vacations with others in your private network.  They can [...]

Sharing Folders Moved to Contacts, a More Intuitive Process

To help make sharing folders with other users on your network a little easier, this function has been moved from the folder section into its’ more appropriate place, the Contacts application. Sharing Folders in Contacts This way, after you add a new folder, just go to the Contacts tab, add other users from your network [...]

New Formatting Options When Adding Text to Notes, Actions and Emails

Now whenever you add a note, action, or sending an email notification, you’ll see a few additional font options to tweak the style of any text you’re writing.  These include changing the font color, the background color, the font type as well as the font size. To make changes, just highlight the appropriate text and [...]

Getting a Quick Preview of Your Application Items Before Deleting

Now whenever you’d like to remove an item from any of the applications, you’ll see a quick preview of the item before you confirm to actually delete. This is set up for when you highlight an item and click delete, the new window that appears to ask you to confirm now shows the application item [...]

Using Notes for Sending Out Meeting Notes and Group Emails

If you’re with a group of people where everyone knows each other, or maybe a small association or organization, and you get together maybe once a month to go over a few things, no doubt to at least try to keep things running smoothly, you may find yourself sending a few emails.   One beforehand to [...]

Contacts Application Expands to Include Shared Content

Now when you view another user in the Contacts application, you’ll see more than just the reference contact information.  You’ll see the reference info plus all the content the user has created and shared with you, helping for a more focused view of some of your collaboration with that user. Overview Here’s a screenshot of [...]

Using Strike-Through for a List in an Action

Here’s an example of how you can use the strike-through rich text editing feature in combination with the Actions application. Let’s say you set up an action with a few sub-points, or list of smaller times needed, such as a working on and launching some new website pages.  Here’s the screenshot for setting up your [...]

Using Desktop Apps for Initial Idea, Share it with an Intranet

As much as it might be an interesting idea to think you can do all your creative activities through various web tools, there are plenty of occasions where it’s just not the best fit and it’s more efficient to use other more industrial desktop applications, at least for the initial creative part. Some of these [...]

Open Documents in Browser to View Images and Photos

Here’s a new feature within the Documents application, helpful for viewing any images or photos that you have stored or are shared with you. Just click the link “Open in Browser” to view the image or photo in its’ actual size, will be displayed in a new tab from your browser. While you’re in the [...]

New Application Item Layout, Integrating Details and Comments

To make things a little more intuitive when viewing any application items, the layout has been tweaked from a top/bottom format to a left/right format.   See the below screenshot with the Note application. This helps to be able to both see the details of an application as well as view/add any comments, all in one [...]

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