Create notebooks by email

Have you found with yourself with no net connection when travelling, when you suddenly get the inspiration for a new idea. Now you can start writing all your ideas down in an email and the minute you’re back in connection you can email your workings directly into a notebook within a project.
 
Each project has a unique email address for which you can email notebooks to. To see what this is go to notebooks page and of the left you will see, post a notebook via email. Click this to see the unique email address.

Notebooks will only be posted from people where the FROM address is the same as the person's TeamworkPM email address. If the email is sent from an address not registered in TeamworkPM, the notebooks will not be posted and the email will be deleted.

As with all our updates we are always happy to get your feedback on it.

New Feature: More helpful notification emails

We’ve just turned on a great new feature we’ve been using internally for a couple of weeks - email notifications which include the most recent comments.

Before, when you replied to a message or added a comment on an item, the notification email only included the new comment body. 

The old email format:

When things get busy, or a reply is added days afterwards, it was easy to lose the context of the original discussion. 

The new email notifications are far more helpful and show the last 6 replies added. If there are more than 6 replies in the discussion we show a link to the full thread. 

The new format:

We’ve also made the email notifications “responsive” so that, on a small screen such as the iPhone, the layout changes with the date and time moving below the author’s name making the content easier to read on the go.

On the most recent reply we also link to the item on your Teamwork account so you don’t have to scroll down the email to get to the actual link.

We also took this opportunity to tweak a few nuances that people sent via feedback.

  • We fixed some localization issues with email notifications so the recipient now sees the times and language according to their preferences. 
  • We improved the subject line in comment email notifications to list the object type the comment was added to. This allows you to see at a glance if the comment was on a Task, Notebook, Link, Milestone or File. We’ve kept the item details at the bottom of the notification email and gave more room to the actual message being sent.

As always, we hope you find this new feature useful! It’s definitely improved our productivity and we’ve noticed people are more inclined to continue the discussion when the context of the notification is clearer!

New responsive design for daily email

Starting your day knowing what tasks await you is one of the key factors which allow you to remain in control and on top of all your projects. With TeamworkPM this information comes to you in the form of a daily email each morning. 

Having this information to hand in an easy to read format is really important. This month we decided to tackle the daily email and improve it with a responsive design. Since a lot of us now catch up on emails in the morning via smartphones, we built the new daily email to detect this and to display the report in a smartphone friendly design. Then, once you're back at your computer it will adapt to take full advantage of the wider screen.

A new addition to the daily email are events from the company calendar. Any events which you were notified of, were added by you, or which you need to attend, will now appear in the list of events in the email.

If any of you didn't know about this email or aren't receiving it, you can turn it on by navigating to Notifications in "My Details" in the top right drop down of your teamwork acccount. You can either turn it on or send out today's one just to have a look.

We hope you like it!