Followup Expert

With a new, minimal, mobile-friendly followup design, better calendar integration, email-based actions and a quick followup shortcut, we are happy to say that your inbox is about to be a better place to get stuff done.

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Productive Teams

Scheduling followups for yourself is great. But being able to quickly set followup reminders for others can mean huge productivity gains.

And so, we've decided it was time to make some improvements to how the 'cc' feature works.

Continue reading "Following Up With Others: New, Improved and Improving!"

Who says email makes a bad to-do list? ...or a bad project management system?

Email is still the fastest way to delegate a task. It may not work quite as well as a project project management system or to-do list. But it's fast, it works, it's mobile and, hey, you were already in your email, so why not fire off that simple request.

The problem is that once you hit 'send', there is no way of tracking whether it gets done! Unless, of course, you enter it in your calendar, project management system, to-do list, or [insert overly-complex external system here].

Now, tracking email-delegated tasks can be done within seconds

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Last month, while none of us we're looking, we passed 1,000,000 followups scheduled. Just writing that sounds crazy. When Reilly and I first built FollowUpThen, we had no idea it'd have such an impact.

While it was rewarding building something for ourselves that we loved using, the real reward is hearing from our users how much they love it.

To every one of you who has taken the time out of your day to provide feedback, report a bug or just give us a simple thumbs up, thank you. Seriously, your feedback, comments and questions have been invaluable.

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How is this news, you might be asking? Don't all web services have logins? Well, if you've used FollowUpThen before, you might be aware that we never ask you to set up a password. Instead, to access your account, you had to enter your email address, then receive an email with a temporary secure access link. This worked well for awhile, but we felt it was time to grow up and join the rest of the internet with a standard username/password system so you can quickly access your account.

The first time you attempt to login, you'll be prompted to set your password. After that, accessing your followups and account settings should be much easier.

Thanks to all of you who clamored for this feature.

Many more updates to come soon.

Now what are you waiting for, login to your account!

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We have been busy working on some "plumbing" to allow us to develop features
more quickly and efficiently. For the latest updates, check out our twitter
account @followupthen. This blog is reserved for longer
descriptions of things and special news – like maybe
getting written up in the New York Times or something : )

Thanks, by the way, to our users for that. I know that one (or more) of you tipped them off!

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As you may have noticed from the shiny, newly designed followups in your inbox, the new version of FollowUpThen is now live!

While much has changed that you can see, there is just as much new that you can't see. These new "under the hood" enhancements
set the groundwork for us to make quicker and more efficient progress moving forward. It also fixed various bugs and improved general system
stability. In other words, we now have a solid foundation : )

Here are the highlights from our most recent updates:

Continue reading "New Design, New Features, Premium Accounts Now Live!"