Product Update: To-Dos, Contacts, Remember Me
- Posted January 17th, 2008
- Filed under: Product Updates
This round of changes includes a lot of suggestions from our beta users, more so than any other code push we have done so far:
- To-Dos now support entering natural language date entry. What is this you say? Well, it’s possibly my favorite feature right now in BatchBook. Now instead of having to use the calendar pop-up to enter dates, you can just enter something like ‘next wednesday’ in the text field and it figures out the date for you. This is really useful for entering terms like ‘tomorrow’, ‘today’ , ‘next month’ etc. It will also support dates like “1/31″ and will just default to the current year. Give it a try; it’s so fun it makes you wish you had more To-Dos to enter.
- Another change is that overdue To-Dos are now styled in red with an exclamation point in front of them. This makes it much easier to quickly scan the page and see what tasks are in need of attention.
- For Contacts, we’ve removed the requirement of needing a last name for an individual contact. Sometimes you just do not have a persons last name, which shouldn’t prevent you from getting the contact in BatchBook. Editor’s note: like if you know Madonna! Or Cher!
- We also made a change to the Contact detail page that makes it much easier to log location information. You’ll now see a blank form ready to fill out. This is just the start of a major revamp to this page we have in the works. Stay tuned…
- The Login page now has a “Remember me” checkbox which will keep you logged into BatchBook for two weeks. This is really nice for accessing BatchBook on mobile devices so that you can stay logged into the app without having to re-enter your email and password everyday.
There have also been a bunch of little UI tweaks here which should make for a better experience all around, especially in IE7.
It’s very cool to be getting such great feedback from our users, so keep sending it in.
