BatchBook Product Update: Auto-Tagging from BatchBox & More!

• Posted August 7th, 2008
• By Adam Darowski (bio)
• Filed under: Product Updates

Last night we pushed another new version of BatchBook. Here are some of the goodies you can look for:

Auto-tagging from BatchBox

Now, whenever you send an email into BatchBook via BatchBox email forwarding, the new communication will be tagged as “batchbox”. That way you can see all of your auto-generated communications in one place, so you can edit, tag, or otherwise modify as necessary. As an added bonus, any contacts created from BatchBox emails will also be tagged as “batchbox”.

To change this tag to something else (or to stop auto-tagging altogether), simply visit the Email Settings in Your Account.

Screencasts embedded within BatchBook

I’m quite proud of our latest round of BatchBook screencasts, so I wanted to get them actually into the application itself. So, now when you click on a help icon, the screencast will be embedded right there on the page. Seeing is believing!

Preview popups in more places

When we launched the Contacts and Communications redesigns, we added preview popups so that you can see more information at a glance without actually clicking. We’ve started adding these preview popups elsewhere in the app, starting with Recent Activity (on the Dashboard) and search results. Let us know if you want them in more places! (I’m thinking the Activity Log is next…)

No more phone auto-formatting (almost)

With more and more international customers using BatchBook, we realized that our phone number auto-formatting wasn’t working for everyone. So, we decided to completely turn off auto-formatting (you’re big kids, you can decide how you want them to look, right?) except in the case of ten straight digits. So, “1234567890″ would auto format as “(123) 456-7890″ but “00 11 2222 333 444″ would be left alone.

And more!

Also included in the update:

• Paging of search results (now, once you hit 20 results, we split ‘em up)
• Updates to the vCard importer
• Updates to the “print list” view in the Activity Log

We hope you enjoy these changes!