The web used to be a beautiful place. Those rolling pastures of fast loading simple HTML, the fresh smell of web 2.0 gradients, the spotless fields of minimal libraries. Sure, our navigation wasn’t as advanced as today, but the waters were clear and easy to surf. Over the years however, an icological disaster of petaproportions … Continue reading "Time to Clean Up The Web"| Stunf
Google just announced Actions in the Inbox. By adding some markup (Microdata or JSON-LD) to the HTML emails you send out, Gmail can now display quick action buttons next to your email. Some might see this as simply another random extension, or a Gmail gimmick à la Gmail Labs extensions. We rather see it as … Continue reading "Email as a platform"| Stunf
Just a quick note — to better structure our blog posts, we’ve launched a separate blog for Papyrs. If you’re looking for new Papyrs features announcements, tips and related intranet news: you can find it at blog.papyrs.com.| Stunf
Just a quick note: Papyrs has been nominated for the Accenture Innovation Awards ’12! You can help vote for us (until Nov 5th) by liking or retweeting us on this page . Thanks :)!| Stunf
One of the main hurdles you face when setting up an intranet is user engagement. You have to get people to actively use the systems you put in place. Even if everybody is on the same page and believes that getting organized with an intranet will save time in the long run the motivation may … Continue reading "Improving intranet engagement"| Stunf
We’ve been working on quite some new features for Papyrs, time to introduce some of them! Category Navigation widget If you’re using categories to organize your Papyrs intranet pages, you might want to navigate your pages by category. At the Pages Overview, you can already find an overview of all your pages by category. We’re … Continue reading "New in Papyrs: Navigation Widget, Google Calendar and more!"| Stunf
Hi everyone, quick update: we just released a new navigation widget to add to your Papyrs pages: Table of Contents. If you have a long page with a lot of documentation, it’s often useful to be able to jump to different parts within that page. If you add the Table of Contents widget, an index … Continue reading "New in Papyrs pages: Table of contents"| Stunf
February 2013 Update: We’ve added a way to import your pages from Backpack into Papyrs. We just read on TheNextWeb that Backpack, a web app from 37signals is no longer accepting new signups. Existing users aren’t left out in the cold, but you can no longer sign up for their service. Backpack is pitched as … Continue reading "Why Backpack is getting phased out"| Stunf
Image widget We made a number of improvements to the way you deal with images in Papyrs: 1. You can now reorder images with drag & drop, right from your page. Reorder images with drag & drop 2. You can add links to images. Click on an image to add or remove a link 3. … Continue reading "Papyrs Image Improvements"| Stunf
Today we’re launching a new widget for Papyrs: the poll widget. Although it’s already possible to create all kinds of survey forms using the form widgets, a poll can be useful if you want feedback on a single question, and immediately show the results. With Papyrs, you can now add two types of poll widgets. … Continue reading "New feature: Poll widget"| Stunf
We consider our support one of the main “features” of our products. We try to respond as fast as possible, and we’re always curious to hear what you like and don’t like. Although the current feedback process seems to work well, we wanted to see if it could be improved even further. As an experiment, … Continue reading "Redesigning the Feedback Dialog"| Stunf
Quick update, everybody! Our old popup dialogs, although functional, weren’t exactly shiny. So we decided to give them a much needed face-lift: Feedback Dialog Feedback Dialog Before. Yikes! Feedback Dialog After. Ahh… much better :) Media Widget Dialog Media Widget Dialog Before… … and after We changed over a dozen dialogs in total. The dialogs … Continue reading "Papyrs Interface updates"| Stunf
Intro People store a lot of documents and other business knowledge on Papyrs and so we wanted to add search functionality so people could get to their documents more quickly. Here we’re going to give the technical explanation of how we got it all to work. Much to our surprise we couldn’t find any package … Continue reading "Building a scalable real-time search architecture with Sphinx"| Stunf
Two weeks ago we added integration with Google Mail to easily handle workflows. Today we’re launching two new features for our Google Apps users: integration with Google Docs & Google Calendar! Google Calendar Integration First, Google Calendar support: Google Calendar events on a Papyrs Page. You can create as many Google Calendars as you need. … Continue reading "More Google Apps Integration"| Stunf
Today we’re announcing more integration for Papyrs with Google Apps! (available for Papyrs for Google Apps users). If you’re someone who needs to spend a lot of time in your Google Mail Inbox, you probably already use the Notifications in Papyrs to stay up to date of new page changes and form submissions. Some updates … Continue reading "Manage your Form Workflows from your Inbox!"| Stunf
Custom Widgets We added this feature by popular request. Papyrs supports a lot of widgets out of the box but sometimes you want to add something to a page that suits your personal needs completely. This is where Custom Widgets come in. With Custom Widgets you can add pretty much any 3rd party widget to … Continue reading "New Papyrs Feature: Custom Widgets"| Stunf
After more than a year of developing, designing, discussing all the beta feedback with you (thanks everyone!), even more coffee and even shorter nights, we are thrilled to finally drop the beta label and announce the launch of Papyrs! What is Papyrs? Papyrs is a web application which anyone can use to build their own … Continue reading "Papyrs Launches!"| Stunf
View changes between versions of pages Today we added a feature to Papyrs that makes it really easy to see how a page has changed over time. It will show you a visual comparison that highlights exactly what has changed. See at a glance which text has changed (click for a larger screenshot) Deleted text … Continue reading "New Papyrs Feature: Show changes between versions of pages"| Stunf
Today we’re launching a few new features for Papyrs. Let’s start with the biggest one: Search With Papyrs it is now possible to search within all your pages, comments, contacts and profiles, attachments, and submitted forms. Just start typing in the search bar and Papyrs returns the results nearly instantaneously. It has find-as-you-type. Never again … Continue reading "Search for Papyrs & more"| Stunf
Hi everyone, Over the past few months we have been adding many new features to Papyrs. This week we launched a design update and the Activity Stream. With a lot of different information going back and forth between team members, the Activity Stream is a great way to stay up to date with everything that’s … Continue reading "New in Papyrs: Keep everybody on the same page with the Activity Stream"| Stunf
We’re glad to announce that Papyrs is also available in the Google Apps Marketplace! If you are a Google Apps user, you can now add Papyrs to your Google Apps domain directly from the marketplace. With Papyrs you can easily build an intranet for your team using drag & drop, and use it to collaborate better with colleagues … Continue reading "Papyrs available in Google Apps Marketplace"| Stunf
For people interested in the Getting Things Done (GTD) method, the In-box is probably already a familiar concept. The inbox is a place where you collect all your “stuff”: thoughts and tasks which need further processing. When we designed Thymer, we made sure adding new items to your list is fast and easy. This also … Continue reading "New Thymer feature – “In” box"| Stunf
For those curious why we build Papyrs and not some other product, here’s our reasoning: The problem Collecting, sharing and finding back all your information is painful. Even with our little startup we already bumped into this problem. First we only had some notes with ideas (e.g. for new features), screenshots, drafts, discussions and design … Continue reading "Why we created Papyrs"| Stunf
Hi everyone, big news today for our little company!| Stunf
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