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Organization out of Random events

soonr — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 01:29:33 +0000

Soonr’s Dashboard provides many tools for organizing your mobile lifestyle. Favorites and Recent Changes are two orgaization tools contained in one pane on your Dashboard. Favorites you totally control; whereas, Most Recent is dynamic and has built in intelligence to help you accomplish tasks quicker.

Organize with Favorites and Recetn Changes

Let’s explore each one of these productivity tools.

There are certain things that we go back to time and again because they are what we care about most. Whether it’s a favorite website, restaurant, picture, or video; we take time to put them at the “top of the stack” because we want to return to them at a moments notice.

The same thing happens when you working on your computer(s). Certain projects, pictures, files or folders contain things you use often but perhaps at varied intervals. The Favorites tab allows you to quickly bring those things together in your Dashboard. As you are navigating in your Soonr account, you’ll see a star appear next to files and folders.

If you want the file or folder to appear in your favorites, simply click on the star to toggle it on or off. If you’ve ever used Gmail, you’ll see that it’s pretty similar to Gmail’s favorites feature.

Favorites have a yellow star next to them.

Now let’s contrast this to the “Recent Changes” tab. Whereas Favorites are completely controlled by you, Recent Changes automatically detects updated to your cloud and shows you what’s happening in realtime. If someone left a comment for you or made a change in a shared project, it’ll appear in the Recent Changes tab. The order of the items is chronological, with the most recent things at the top. At a glance you can see what’s going on in your cloud. You can perform actions that will appear on the list, but unlike Favorites you cannot directly mark items to be persistent and included even when no action occurs.

These features are especially useful when you are accessing your account from a mobile phone. The immediacy of the information and the fact that it’s intelligently presenting what is happening in realtime, allows you to quickly respond to requests or project activities when you are mobile. You don’t have to spend a lot of time navigating in the more limited interface of a mobile phone in order to get to what you need. When you area on a device with a smaller screen, fewer clicks equals better mobile productivity.

Filed under: New Features

How to use files on a computer that is turned off.

soonr — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 23:01:42 +0000

Active Backup is a bit of an oxymoron as you really can’t used information in a backup unless you restore it first. Right? Wrong! Soonr gives you the ability to work with datafiles in a backup. It doesn’t matter if your computer is offline or turned off since your information is securely available to you anytime.

The new Dashboard (introduced in version 31.) has a section called “Backups”.

Your most active computers and their status are available at a glance.

Listed are the computers associated with your account, with the most active 3 computers visible in the pane. Now at first glance it may not seem like you can do a whole lot with this view, but that would be incorrect. Pass your mouse over any of the computers and you’ll notice a menu appear across the bottom.

Search for file – is the key item here. If you remember the name of the file or any phrase that was in the file, you can locate it in the backup set. Even if the computer is turned off, you can display the file and then choose to comment, print, fax, or create a link to the file to share with others.

Edit with Cloud Drive – you can even make changes a file from another computer and have Soonr automatically sync the file to the original computer. The next time the original computer logs in, Soonr will update the folder with newest changes that you made.

This means that you can use a remote computer to edit that Word document or update the Excel spreadsheet. When you return back to the office or home and login, the file will automatically be pushed from Soonr to your computer. All the changes will be kept intact with full version control.

So that’s how Soonr allows you to use files on a computer that is turned off.

Oh, I should mention the other options on the “Backups” pane. Restore files provides the ability to recover files to another computer. Lost Computer is the first place to visit if you discover that your computer/laptop is lost or stolen. It will remove the stored access rights to your account that is in the lost computer so that unauthorized persons cannot login.

Posted in New Features

New Service Interface for 2010!

soonr — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 02:15:14 +0000

Happy New Year to everyone! Here at Soonr, we have a resolution to make our users more productive while making things easier. Work less and do more!

Yeah, you’ve heard that before, but we will prove it with actions. This week, you will see a major enhancement in your Soonr Dashboard when you login with your computer browser. It’ll be easier than ever before to understand at a glance, how your data is protected and who is working with you on your projects. Here’s a peek at the new Dashboard along with a partial list of the enhancements that come along with it.

NEW DASHBOARD:

Soonr's Visual Dashboard is easy and powerful!

As you can see, the major Dashboard sections are split and color coded for easy identification.

There are sections for:

- Most recent activity
- Favorites
- Account Status
- Backup Status
- Project Information
- Team Overview

Other updates include:

- Account personalization
- Cloud Drive replaces TeamDrive* providing OS integration and WebDav support.
- Edit from Cloud Drive
- Improve Link sharing
- Backup for large and constantly changing files like Outlook and Databases.
- Backup for external devices

MOBILE DEVICES:

In addition to all that goodness, we will update the native iPhone**, Android, and BlackBerry application to support many of these new features. Some special capabilities like copy files from the cloud to the phone memory card for Android will be supported. Even phones with basic browsers will see improvements in support for the new features.

Please keep an eye on the blog in the upcoming weeks as we will cover these features in more detail with subsequent entries. We think you’ll agree that the enhancements are making huge leaps in functionality while making Soonr easier for you. The easier it is, the faster you can get your work done. Work smarter in 2010!

We are dedicated to protecting your critical files with “Active Backup” and making sure that your data works as hard as you do.

* Please note that TeamnDrive is a TradeMark of TeamDrive Systems GmbH.
Soonr Cloud Drive replaces the TeamDrive name.
** iPhone application submitted to App Store. Availability pending approval.

Posted in Mobile Document Worker, New Features