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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Using a Private Network in Education to Collaborate, Backup and Research

For people in school that work on projects or assignments from different locations, you can use a private network for your collaboration, backup, and research. This can be especially helpful for people involved with remote education or getting an advanced degree on a part-time basis.  Situations outside of the normal college environment where everyone is [...]

Using a Private Network for Quality Client Collaboration

As most of your freelancing ideas are not your flash in the pan, overnight, wham bam boom types of successes but rather a slow and steady growth building up trust and increasing your reputation with an initial few clients of your product or service and growing through referrals.  Eventually you may have enough customers on [...]

More Info Displayed When Viewing Emails and Comments

Now when viewing your summarized Emails or Comments, you’ll see a little more information displayed to help identify where the email or comment came from. The additional information includes both the type of application as well as the name of the source of the item.   For example, if somebody added a comment to a note, [...]

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 [...]

View Sent and Received Emails in New Emails Tab

To help provide some of your email communications for later reference, you can now select a tab labeled “Emails” to view any emails sent or received within your Odysen network. Similar to the applications, you can view emails within each topical folder, or see them integrated in the All folder.  Note that the emails included [...]

A Multilingual, No Advertising, Collaboration Tool for US Users

While the US is no doubt what you could safely call an English speaking region, it’s also a host of other languages, never mind the differences in English from East Coast, Southern, or Midwest (just watch Fargo if needing a refresher). According to a US census report from a few years ago (these don’t get [...]

A Simple to Use Collaboration Solution for Developers

Here’s a solution to help designers or developers looking for an easy way to organize some of their day to day activities. Get a comprehensive tool to organize your content, use a variety of applications for different needs and options to share with others on your team. Project Management Developers or designers can use a [...]

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, [...]

Sending an Email Notification More Personalized, “From:” Email Included

Now whenever you send an email notification to anyone, when they receive the email, the “From:” field will include your email address.   This is helpful anytime you send a quick email notification and the recipient might want to ask an additional question or comment.  Instead of having to go through the process to log in, [...]