From the press release:
- We’ve now made the Accomplice application available to the public – anyone can now get it without the signups and approval process that were needed during our private beta program.
- he registration and invitation processes have been completely automated. Now when you add someone’s email address to an activity, they receive an invitation quickly and automatically.
- If you have multiple email addresses by which people might know you, you can associate any or all of them with your Accomplice. This makes it easier for people to start sharing activities and notes with you, as long as they know your any of your email addresses.
- The user interface for sharing with your team has been vastly improved. Now you can see an activity column showing who is on your team, and the user interface for adding, removing, and changing the roles of team members has been simplified.
- The conceptual sharing model in Accomplice has been simplified. After gathering feedback for several months from customers using the sharing features, we’ve implemented a model that almost all believe will be a significant improvement. Some changes include:
- When an activity is shared with a group, you need only decide who will be on the team. You (or anyone else on the team) can then optionally assign one or more team members as owners of that activity (which you can interpret as an assignee or a lead). See Tools > Preferences > Sharing to set defaults that work for you.
- Everyone sees the same activity, so they all agree on the due date, importance, status, and description. If one team member makes a change, that change is seen by everyone, and the Accomplice service takes care of changes and complexities that might otherwise arise among team members.
- Like before, everyone can individually decide whether to put an activity on their own plate or snooze it for themselves. And everyone manages their own Progress field (formerly known as Next Steps) on an activity, and the team can see the owners’ and requestor’s On My Plate and Progress values.
- Accomplice runs faster and uses less memory. This is a result of a comprehensive change we made to the embedded database structure that powers Accomplice. (As an example, a profile that was actively used for over a year and had grown to 42MB was reduced to 17MB after upgrading and compacting. The size will grow much slower, too.)
- Easier editing of notes. Now, double click on the left margin of a note, and it opens up to a rich text editor window, allowing much easier document editing.
- Drag and drop files, web links, emails, and most text selections from any application into the Accomplice mini-bar (move your mouse to the very top of your screen).
- Lots of little improvements, fixes, and simplifications.
