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 [...]
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, [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 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 [...]
What’s in a Name, Support & Help Desk
To better differentiate between the “Support” available on the external Odysen website and the support area available when logged into your network, the network label for support has now been changed to “Help Desk”. Exciting I know but as they’re in different areas and represent different types of support, they need to have different names, [...]
New Logos for Network Subsciption Plans
Along with the earlier mentioned changes to the website, you’ll also see a new logo or symbol for each of the plans. Below is a brief summary of each, along with a short explanation of the meaning, purpose or thinking behind the image. Spark Call it your light in the night, a minimalistic fire for [...]
Inviting New Users Simplified, No Welcome Email Needed
Now whenever you add new users to your network, you don’t have to worry about sending them a welcome email. Just start sharing content with them and send them an email notification from either a folder or an application item (an action, note, document, etc). When they click the link in their email to visit [...]
Start Your Fire with a Free Spark Plan!
To help users get a better feel with using an Odysen Intranet or private network solution, you can now do so with an absolutely free plan, called the Spark! Similar to the Creative plan but with a Basic user limit of 10 users and one Spark network per person, or their email address. This way, [...]
Odysen Intranet FAQs Added to Support
Curious about getting started with an Odysen Intranet solution but have a few lingering questions? Check out the new Frequently Asked Questions section within Support to see if it’s already asked. Within this page you’ll find ~40 FAQs that are organized into sections including Account Administration, Collaboration, Personalization, Applications and Solutions. Of course, if you [...]
User Definitions: Who Does What: Administrator, Advanced, Basic, Editor, Reader
With some of the recent modifications to the plans, thought it would be a good idea to go through a quick review of who does what, the user definitions and their roles or permissions. All helpful when setting up and getting your account organized. Account Setup Within an account, users can either be the administrator, [...]