Benefits and Examples of Sharing Folder Ownership
After you create a new folder you have the option to add other owners to the folder beside yourself. This can be helpful when you might have the initial idea for something but feel others in your network might be more appropriate to generally manage the folder and any content, including who else from your [...]
Paint it Black: New Website Background and Other Tweaks
In response to some helpful feedback over the last week, more tweaks and changes have been made, including for the Odysen website, the initial login and sharing your network with others. Here’s a brief overview of changes made: New Website Background Nothing like adding a little contrast to better highlight or give something a little [...]
Five Benefits of Keeping Things Simple
One of the overriding themes of an Odysen network is the ongoing focus and understanding of making things simplified. While seemingly obvious, most of the time easier said than done. It usually starts off as something very complex trying to tie so many things together, then after much polish, reviews, more polish, re-arrangements, tweaks, always [...]
Take Complete Control of a Folder by Making Everyone a Reader
This can be helpful when sharing types of content that you really don’t want altered, but ok for a few others to view and comments to. Some examples: Working with Customers/Clients: For small businesses or freelancing, you can share a network with a customer, including presentations, proposals, contracts or other files in documents, project tasks [...]
How Many Networks is Reasonable?
One of the advantages with having your own network is it can be very focused. As everyone in the network is already coming from a common or shared perspective, the content or collaboration can more quickly get to a new level, sort of like clearing out all the baggage or other distractions and jumping in [...]
10 Things You Won’t Find When Having Your Own Network, and 10 You Will
If you’ve spent a fair amount of time on this or that public or social network, you’ve probably had more than a few opportunities to see both their advantages and disadvantages, warts and all. Advantages are usually along the lines of having a simple way to communicate or collaborate with others while disadvantages seem to [...]
Minimize Folder View in One Click
As briefly mentioned in the posting earlier this week, Folder Options Integrated, one of the features included an option to minimize the folders. This can be done in a single click and would like to elaborate further on the feature, especially helpful for working with smaller displays such as your laptop, iPad or other tablet. [...]
The New Homepage, Simplicity Renewed
Well, at least relative to the previous incarnation. Why the change? Too many people we talk with that use the network and really like it but complain about how hard it is to describe exactly what Odysen is or everything you can do with it. Typical Conversation: Here’s a little parody of one of these, [...]
Organizing Content with Folders Instead of Pages
While it might seem great if everything that you did worked out perfectly, it just doesn’t happen, hindsight is 20/20, best you can do is probably just be grateful you learn the lesson when you did rather than later. Such is the case with the Pages application, RIP. How it Started: The original idea or [...]
Folder Options Integrated, More Efficient Viewing
To make it easier in working with the folders and viewing your content, a couple new features have been implemented, including integrating the folder options at the top of your network and adding a new feature, Hide/Show Folders, helpful for working with your network on smaller displays. Here’s a screenshot of the changes: And a [...]
Additional Use Cases Added to Solutions
To better explain how to use an Intranet or private network solution in different types of environments, there has been five use cases added to each of solutions pages. This is from a combination of customer feedback and our own internal use (yes, we do eat our own dog food). Click on a solution to [...]
10 Topics to Start Your Personal Network
When starting your own private network for personal use, you get a clean, minimalistic tool to help manage your content, which is great except that when starting out, your network is empty until it actually is used. Sort of like having that magical guitar but not being able to hear its’ sound unless of course, [...]
Increased Users Added for Subscription Plans!
In response to some of changes in plans at the beginning of the month, additional Advanced and Basic users have now been added to the Creative, Cooperative and Professional plans. Here’s the new summary page of the available plans. The impacts to each of the plans: Creative Plan For the Creative plan, the number of [...]
Layout Tweak for Option to Include Content from Sub-Folders
Along with the recent change for hiding the folder summary in the folder title bar, the option to include or not include content from sub-folders has also been added. Where It Was Previously this was located as a drop-down option between the users of the folder and the applications. This drop-down option had a couple [...]
Hide Summary Information for Smaller Displays
To help users with smaller displays in viewing more of their content, a Hide Summary button has been added. Useful for users with smaller laptops, an iPad, other tablets or mobile that have a smaller display. By clicking “Hide Summary”, the summary information of the folder will be hidden, including the description and whom the [...]
New Tagline, “Secure Private Networks”
In case you haven’t noticed, there has been a change with the Odysen tagline, located on the top left corner of this page, going from “Simple to Create, Easy to Share” to “Secure Private Networks”. Why the change? Some History To start with, a little background of the previous version, “Simple to Create, Easy to [...]
Subscription Plans Modified for Different Groups
Such is the case with learning, the upside is you usually end up in a better place, the downside of course being that the place you were at no longer has the same value that you once had for it. Call it a mistake, a stepping stone, learning lesson, either way you embrace the change, [...]
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? [...]
All Folder Expansion, Add Content and New Users
Continuing the theme of making your network easier to use with other users, the All folder has received a couple changes, both for sharing content with others as well as adding new users to a network. Sharing Content With Others Previously, while you could view content integrated from across your network, you could not add [...]
Edit and Add Other Users Directly from Folder Overview
Along with the other content added to the folder overview section, you can also change the users the folder is shared with. This includes changing the permissions of Owner, Editor or Reader as well as adding other users from your network. Summary of Changes Here are the different options available. User Name: Clicking on a [...]
Folder Options Moved to the Center
To help make some of the options with folders more intuitive, a few of them have been moved from the left navigation section to the folder overview section in the middle of the page. These include the options to Edit the folder, send an email notification and sharing folders with others. The options to Create, [...]
Language Changes Implemented
For people using a network in a language besides English, you’ll notice a few updates have been made over the last couple weeks, some of these include: Sharing Folders: This is for creating or editing a folder and sharing it with others. The changes made include updating the process of adding Editors and Readers to [...]
Get Privacy With Multiple Networks
While different social networks see their business model evolving to better cater to different advertisers by integrating information about you, you can use multiple private networks to get back your privacy and help your multi-dimensional personality engage with a more comfortable environment. Combining them all together is like having all the stoplights at a busy [...]
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 [...]
Changing Your Time Zone
For people occasionally traveling across time zones, you can change your time zone to help keep aligned to the events and actions in your network. Here’s a quick walk-through for doing so. Step 1: Click your username on top right of any network page. Step 2: Click Edit profile. Step 3: Select your new time [...]
Create a Different Network for Each Key Customer
For collaboration with important customers or clients, while you can create a separate folder within your main network just for them, ok for a one time project or isolated collaboration, but if working with on a more regular basis, it might be better to create a separate network. With a new network being relatively low [...]
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 [...]
See All Your Websites in the All Folder
As you can usually find websites that specialize in just about anything, adding them to various folders and projects can become a common occurrence. Adding some places of interest when planning a trip, customer or supplier websites for business activities, restaurant websites for going out and so on. While it’s nice to have the websites [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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