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Teaching in the Cloud [Infographic]
We've created an infographic to demonstrate the benefits of using Hojoki to streamline a teacher's workflow. Connect all your tools to one platform and have a space to discuss with other teachers as well as students.
You’re free to use the infographic and it would be great to see you sharing it with the world!
The Wait is Over: Evernote is Here!
It’s here at last! The most demanded and eagerly anticipated integration to date, Evernote. We’ve been working very hard on bringing this to you all. One look at our feature requests forum can tell you how much this app has been wanted in Hojoki. We’re glad to say that as of now it has been set free into the wild, Hojoki public beta.
So, once you connect your favourite note-taking, forget-nothing app, you’ll see all the updates flow right into Hojoki. You can have your notes shared automatically with others based on notebooks and/or tags. Under each update, you can start a discussion with others and know what’s going on at all times:
Having Evernote activities in the same place as updates from other apps like Google Docs and Dropbox makes for the perfect collaborative platform. You can have your team in one or many Hojoki workspaces and keep informed at all times of any progress.
As well as all the new integrations we've been releasing recently, we've also been working hard on improving your Hojoki collaborative experience. Expect a more streamlined approach that allows you to create discussions a one click process where everybody concerned is automatically included.
By Adam Bannister
What’s New: 16th March 2012
We’ve kept up our high speed with this next feature update, which again brings you a new integration next to some very nice improvements.
It’s finally here: Evernote integration
We know that many of you would have loved to have seen this even earlier. But integrating Evernote was not the easiest task and it caused us some serious headaches to launch this app with the quality you expect from Hojoki.
The Evernote integration brings the newsfeed of your notebooks on Evernote right into Hojoki. Delivering to you these updates in the same place as all your other apps. If you are an Evernote premium user and have others editing your notebooks, you’ll see this too.
We’ll blog about this new arrival in more detail in a few minutes.
Easier laws for workspaces
We continue on our mission to improve Hojoki’s social features. We've now added activities that show you when somebody adds or removes another user to a workspace:
This goes along with our improved, simplified model to support the direct communication style you have on Hojoki. All members of a workspace can now add/remove members or add/delete content in it. Admins maintain the rights to rename or delete a workspace as well as adding/removing other admins.
Clearer naming: Good bye “autoshares”
When creating something very new like Hojoki, sometimes it’s not easy to come up with the right wording. We found it especially difficult to explain our “autoshare” functionality and the wording didn’t seem to make things easier. Now we replaced autoshares with something easy: adding content. So, in Hojoki you have workspaces and you decide which members and which content (former autoshares) you add. Members are able to write and comment in the feed. Changes in added content will automatically show up in the workspace’s feed. Yep, it’s that easy.
UI improvements
Thilo spent his week on optimizing your user experience at lots of different places in the UI. First of all, we improved blank slates to make starting with Hojoki as easy as possible.
Then, we enabled the status inbox for microblogging even if you don’t have any workspaces. If you don't, Hojoki creates a workspace for you once you post your comment.
Another important addition are replies on aggregated activities. Now you can just click “reply” without the having to expand the aggregation into single activities.
Next, you can now create a new workspace when you share an activity. So the workflow is; something shows up in your newsfeed, you want to share it, you press share and you have the choice to create a new workspace to share it with.
Hotfixes: Dropbox
Dropbox changed parts of its API recently without notice and we reacted quickly to fix your feed (already done in a hotfix update just a few hours after their changes last Friday) and your links (with our current update). We understand that Dropbox is in the process of polishing its major API and we expect some nice features there which should make our integration even better for you.
Improving Hojoki's performance and smashing bugs
As always, there was some work under the hood and bug tickets to solve. Our Evernote beta testers especially helped us a lot in finding bugs and performance issues (thanks to all of you with more than 100,000 notes in Evernote!).
You should also experience a boost in speed and performance of stream loading!
The next update is just around the corner with Zendesk starting it’s private beta test now.
By Martin Böhringer
User Story: Gauss
Gauss are the people who bring you the people magnet. They create a mobile app that discovers new relevant people around you and helps you easily introduce yourself, meet up and connect. They describe themselves as a distributed team and Hojoki helps to keep them connected.
Who are you?
Vidar Andersen
What do you do?
Co-Founding Gauss - The People Magnet because we believe everybody should have the choice to be better connected; to never be lonely again!
What do you like most about Hojoki?
The name! It brings a smile to my face every time I see it or hear it!
How do you use Hojoki?
We're a completely distributed bootstrapped startup; Both geographically and on all sorts of cloud services. Hojoki is our central social hub in the cloud that brings it all together.
What apps do you use with Hojoki?
Google Docs, Google Calendar, Github, Dropbox, Delicious
Research in the Cloud [Infographic]
With our latest integration, Mendeley, Hojoki now supports the complete tool stack used by researchers and students every day. We created an infographic to show what this can look like. Next to Mendeley, it includes our integrations of Dropbox, Google Docs, Evernote, Delicious and Google Reader.
You're free to use the infographic and it would be great to see you sharing it with the world!
Hojoki Simplifies Research with Mendeley Integration
Mendeley is the latest addition to Hojoki’s collection of apps. With this, all your references are brought into Hojoki, where you can share them with your colleagues along with activities from your other apps:
This new app also adds a completely new use to Hojoki. If you’re in research and you want to be in control of your tools, let Hojoki help you out. We’ll take everything you need for your academic work and provide you with one stream to see what’s happening everywhere.
If you’re feeling particularly brave, create a Hojoki workspace with your supervisor and share your apps there. This will give you a place to discuss your work, get feedback and definitely motivate you to get stuff done.
For supervisors looking for a tool to help them keep on top of everything. You can use Hojoki to stay informed about how all your students are getting along and provide feedback in our clean, simple interface without having to wrestle with your email client.
With Evernote’s release just around the corner, Hojoki’s strength is only growing. Stay tuned for lots of more exciting news in the coming weeks.
By Adam Bannister
What's New: 7th March 2012
We just deployed the latest version of Hojoki to you. This includes some very nice features that we’ll tell you a little about.
Mendeley integration: Academia, Hojoki is for you!
Most of us have a history in research and know that lots of folks there work with tools like Google Docs, Google Reader and Dropbox. There was still something research related missing in Hojoki and that something was Mendeley. Mendeley is one of the leading tools for managing references in academic work. You can share references in groups which is very handy combined with collaborative writing in Google Docs. Hojoki brings all of those activities on one page. We’ll go into further detail on this integration in an upcoming blog post.
Build your network. Easily!
We are in the process of streamlining your Hojoki experience. A very crucial step is for you to invite others into workspaces to make Hojoki’s newsfeed social and use it for feedback and discussions. Our new “Suggested people” widget supports you here by presenting you people you already work with closely in your connected apps.
Little animals
Of course we also hunted bugs again. We finished 14 bug tickets and also spent some time on finishing our upcoming Evernote integration together with our great beta testers. Stay tuned.
By Martin Böhringer
Google Contacts added to Hojoki
Our latest integration, Google Contacts, was added to Hojoki in latest update of our system. Now you can have your favourite address book in Hojoki for sharing and combining with your other apps. Clicking the activity opens the details with the main contact information you have stored about this person. Here is what it looks like in Hojoki:
Every time you send a mail or receive one in Google Mail, the sender/receiver is added to your Google Contacts. Hojoki utilizes this knowledge base and lets you share your contacts with others with the press of a button:
Every time a contact is created or updated in Google Contacts an activity is triggered in Hojoki. Here’s some info on what you can do with these updates.
Clicking on the update provides additional info about the contact.
Clicking on the email address opens your mail client and allows you to start writing a mail to this address.
You can share an update with a workspace, allowing you to share your contacts easily with whoever you choose.
You can automatically share a predefined contact group in workspaces.
We hope you enjoy this latest addition. We're already working hard on the next improvements. Expect some big updates from us in the coming weeks! ;)
By Adam Bannister
What’s New: 29th February 2012
We wanted to make the most of the extra day that the leap year provides us with so, we decided to push out a nice, big update! This adds a new integration, new features and bug fixes:
New Integration: Google Contacts
After having it in private beta testing for a while we are happy to release the Google Contacts integration today. This brings all your contacts into Hojoki and helps you to:
Share information from Google Contacts with your team in your Hojoki newsfeed
Search for all your contacts in Google Contacts from within Hojoki
Benefit from the auto-suggest in workspace creation.
This is how it looks like:
Socialize Hojoki
We are on the journey to improve Hojoki’s social features. We want to support you in finding your co-workers and starting to discuss all your stuff on Hojoki. The first feature toward achieving this goal is profile snippets. These are info boxes for each person in your newsfeed. They show you if the selected person is on Hojoki already and provide you with direct links to invite them or add them to a workspace.
Bug fixes and small details
Counting our bug tracker issues tells me that we’ve fixed 21 of them. These included some really strange ones. Lots of users reported a broken login page, which eventually we found out was caused by their privacy protection plugins which stopped the Facebook login from loading (which broke the rest of Hojoki). Even more difficult to find was a problem frequently reported by our Evernote testers: their problems to authorize Evernote access finally turned out to be a Chrome bug. We had our best team of detectives on bug hunting duty and it paid off, as we solved both cases.
By Martin Böhringer
User Story: NEVERBLAND
NEVERBLAND is a London based-digital studio. They use Hojoki to keep on their team on the same page.
Who are you?
Sam Mathews
What do you do?
I'm the MD at NEVERBLAND, a London-based digital studio.
What do you like most about Hojoki?
I get to spy on my developers!
How do you use Hojoki?
I keep Hojoki in a pinned tab, and check in every 30mins or so. It means I can see who is working on what, which in turn means I can speak with the relevant person regarding specific tasks I might have queries about.
What apps do you use with Hojoki?
Beanstalk, Dropbox, Google Cal, Google Docs, Pivotal Tracker, Twitter
What's New: 20th February 2012
We just finished deploying our latest big round of features. We’ve listened to you and added functionality that some users stated they’ve felt missing. And of course, we have new integrations!
New arrivals for beta testing: Evernote, Mendeley, Google Contacts
Evernote has been, by far, the most requested app and we are happy to announce that we have finished the integration. Evernote is accompanied by Mendeley, the leading reference and knowledge management tool for researchers, and Google Contacts, our personal people store. Together, the three of them are a huge step forward on the way to make Hojoki the central news hub for all your apps.
We’re going to have private beta testing of our new integrations for the next days. Today we will start to invite people on the waiting list for these integrations. If things go well we’ll roll out the three new arrivals for all our users in the very near future. If you’d like to test them now, email [email protected].
Multiple email addresses per account
One of the biggest work packages for us has been to support multiple email addresses for your account. This was a big pain point for many of our power users. If you used emailA in Google Docs and emailB in Github, your identities were separated. Now, there’s a simple interface where you can claim your email addresses and add them to your account.
Facebook login and profile pic upload
Login just got easier for you with Facebook login. We added this login option to our existing Google login. And, now your Hojoki experience gets more colourful, as we set your Facebook profile pic as your Hojoki pic, if you don’t have a Gravatar pic. For all of you who don’t use either of these services, you can now upload a profile pic manually on your settings page.
Improvement: Pivotal Tracker
We've completed our Pivotal Tracker support. Now we added tasks to your Tracker newsfeed. With this improvement, you now have the complete overview on Stories, Comments and Tasks.
Beauty
The last change, is our new Hojoki background that allows our app to look like the web site and gives you the chance have our great illustrations as your background while you’re working with Hojoki. In this step, we also improved the optics of the login screen to make it nicer.
Of course, I don’t have to mention that again, we fixed lots of big and small bugs (50+ closed tickets) and included small improvements here and there. The team is already baking new, exciting features so stay tuned!
By Martin Böhringer
User Story: Evenflow
Our first user story is from an American startup. They aim to provide an app that simplifies how you create proposals and estimates. Evenflow are based in Texas and are about to launch their private beta, which we’re looking forward to.
Who are you?
Jordan Kohl
What do you do?
I am the Project Manager for Evenflow, an app for building estimates and proposals.
What do you like most about Hojoki?
Opening "new activities" like they're Christmas presents!
How do you use Hojoki?
Hojoki is the pulse of our project. Other apps can do what they do best, while Hojoki handles putting it all together. I've easily removed 1-2 routine emails and 2-4 browser tabs from my work day.
What apps do you use with Hojoki?
Twitter, Google Calendar, Google Reader, Google Docs, Pivotal Tracker, GitHub
Hello Kitty, ahem, Github!
If you’re a regular Hojoki user, you’ll know that Github has been supported right from the start. However, there were lots of details to improve and we've been working hard on it. For this reason, there has never been a posting about our Github integration. As we’ve now reached the first mature version of our integration, we think the time has come to tell the world about it!
So, do you use Github to coordinate your coding projects and host your code? Hojoki tells you what’s going on in one newsfeed. We know that Github has feeds itself, but it doesn’t do the following:
integrate Github activities with your other productivity tools such as Google Docs and Dropbox.
integrate events from your public projects, as well as all your organizational projects, into one newsfeed (in Github all of them are separate).
So you see, there is real value even for power users of the existing Github streams. We have our code both in Beanstalk (the leaf) and Github (the cat) and everything shows up in our “Hojoki Development” project because we've added the repositories to it. This is how it looks in the wild:
We really think that our Github integration will be very useful to you all. Of course, there's always room for improvement. We already learned about the importance of other activity types, like issues and comments and will include them in a later iteration. Are there any other things you notice? We’d love to hear your feedback!
How Hojoki uses Hojoki, part 4
Let’s jump directly back into talking about the Hojoki features that make your life easier. To see the earlier parts of this series look at part 1, part 2 and part 3.
Hop on, hop off
The search leads you to a filtered stream, showing you the history of the search results. You can jump to the app and the object itself. However, Hojoki’s stream will often answer your question directly, for example in the case of tasks or images from CloudApp (Hojoki shows the image right within the stream).
Flowing Task Management
Today I would say that we do task management in at least 4 places: Pivotal Tracker for bigger and/or feature-related development tasks; Lighthouse for smaller bug tickets; Trello for marketing-related things and Hojoki’s comments for all the tiny little “@martin please look into it” or “@adam what do you think?” things you have several times a day. People just started to use comments this way and I think it’s great.
What’s still missing
We have quite an agenda and I want to share a few of the points with you.
Mentions: While we already do task management inside the stream, it is not perfect yet, as Hojoki has no built-in mention feature. You can write “@martin” and Hojoki will highlight that. But next time you could write “@boehr” to refer to the same person and we wouldn’t know. So real mentions like you know them from Twitter or Facebook are very important to us.
Notifications: Closely connected to this is the notification feature. Of course Hojoki should notify you if something is especially important for you. This applies to mentions or new comments in your threads. We will implement an in-app notification module (like Facebook) as well as email notifications.
Summaries: It’s difficult to catch up on what you’ve missed if you were away from your computer for some time. We want to assist you here with a nice summary feature, showing you what important things happened during the day or the week. This will come as periodic email.
Multiple accounts: Our top requested functionality is multiple accounts and we want to support them soon. This way you can have PrivateAccount, BusinessAccount1 and BusinessAccount2 altogether in Hojoki.
The remote control: An idea which I like very much is the remote control for all your connected apps. While we explicitly do not want to re-implement the existing functionality of our integrated apps, we still could offer you jump-off points to go there. Want to create a new Google Docs file? Hojoki links you directly there.
So you see that we have lots of features in the pipeline. Expect some new episodes of the “How Hojoki uses Hojoki” series once they are implemented! Thanks for reading everyone.
By Martin Böhringer
Bring social sharing back to Google Reader
We recently rolled out our latest member of the Hojoki family: Google Reader. Reader is quite a phenomenon; Google tries to cut down functionality in favour of deeper G+ integration but everybody still seems to use it. Now all that’s left is starring articles, we decided to use this feature to integrate Reader into Hojoki.
All of your starred items will flow into your activity stream. It is very handy to search through them together with your delicious bookmarks. But the best thing is Google Reader in combination with Hojoki’s autoshares.
Oops, we just reimplemented social sharing in Google Reader
There was a huge discussion around a few months ago when Google dismissed sharing functionality in Reader. Now Hojoki brings it back. As you know, in Hojoki you can set up projects, invite folks and automatically let certain activities flow into this project’s feed. We call this autoshare, and this functionality is also available for Google Reader. So now I can decide to share interesting items from Google Reader with my team.
You have several sharing options, you can manually share a starred item:
You can autoshare starred items based on the feed:
You can autoshare based on certain tags. This also takes into account tags automatically provided by Google Reader. So if I enter “hojoki”, it will autoshare everything related to Hojoki without me having to tag it manually. All I have to do is star it in Reader:
And of course, you can autoshare all your starred items. This makes sense in settings where you work so closely with your team that they should know everything you do.
As always we’d love to hear your feedback! Leave it here or send us an email.
By Martin Böhringer
What’s New: 26th January 2012
We are keeping the tempo high here at Hojoki. This week's second feature update brings you lots of sweet improvements.
New Arrival: Google Reader
Here it is, our 12th integration, Google Reader. You can now smoothly connect to Reader and Hojoki will bring all your starred items into your newsfeed. You'll find it very handy to have all of them together with your existing bookmarks from Delicious (and soon, with Evernote). You can manually share relevant items with your team from within Hojoki. Even better, with an autoshare, Hojoki does this for you automatically. You can select what starred items are autoshared based on feeds and/or tags. We’ll show you this nice integration in more detail in a soon-to-come posting.
Improvements: Google Calendar
Up to now, Hojoki only collected activities from calendars where you have admin rights. User feedback was that this is too restrictive. Therefore, now we also add calendars where you have rights to create new events (normal membership).
Improvements: Pivotal Tracker
Also based on user feedback, we improved our Pivotal Tracker integration by adding two features. We now show new comments to your stories. For people who use Pivotal Tracker with others who don’t use Hojoki, this should add to the newsfeed significantly. Also, stories are now named “story” in Hojoki (was “task” before).
Improvements: Better Browsing
An expert feature of Hojoki is the activity history. If you click on the time of an activity, Hojoki filters for the history of the related object. This way, you see everything that has happened in one place. Now Hojoki includes related objects into this history, which enables you to browse through folders. For example, if I wanted to find a document, I now only have to know that it was in “Hojoki Marketing”. I would search for this and see the history of all files inside the folder. I could even drill down further by filtering for “Blog postings” and see everything we've done in that folder. If you use Hojoki everyday, you will love this feature!
Of course there are some bug fixes and tiny improvements. We are already crafting new features, with Google Contacts integration and support for multiple email addresses on their way.
By Martin Böhringer
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