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Backpack Preview 3: You can finally move items between pages!
Yea, that's right, we used an exclamation point (!) in a post headline - that's how excited we are that 37signals just released a new preview post and video demo of one of the most-requested Backpack features ever: moving items to different pages. Especially appealing to the GTD crowd, the ability to move items between pages will blow open the doors on Backpack's usefulness for everything from keeping useful tidbits of info handy (even on your mobile phone) to managing projects and robust todo lists. Anything will be draggable from one page to another - notes, files, pictures and lists - and you can even drop an item on the 'Make a new page' button. Items dropped onto a page will be placed at the top of said page, easy to find and organize at a later date.
If you can't wait for the new Backpack to debut (though a scheduled maintenance alert warns that the service will be down tomorrow night at 10 pm Central Time), 37signals has even provided a demo video (in QuickTime) of the new feature in action. Note, however, that the Backpack in the video is running in a slower development mode, so the live version should apparently function with a bit more zip once they flip the switch.
On behalf of Backpack users everywhere, 37signals, we at Download Squad would like to thank you for answering the call.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Mike said 6:42PM on 7-23-2007
You know what I'd really like to see in DLS? I'd love it if you writers would take just a few weeks to attend a basic journalism class to learn how to actually write the kind of articles you do. All to often when I read posts on here I'm left with a feeling of huh???
Is that the feeling you are intending to leave your readers with?
The first rule of writing is to at least answer the question What? Not once in your article do you even explain what backpack is, so I have no idea why I should care. I'm glad you and other users of it are happy its updated, but you have already lost me by the first paragraph cause I have no clue what it is or why I should bother reading further.
It takes so little time at all to say, Backpack, the ____ software used by ___ and then go on. But this and more then a few articles on here seem to forget the importance of such a main statement.
Oh well. Thankfully other sites on Weblogs network are written much more effectively.
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joel said 8:43PM on 7-23-2007
I agree. DLS has some poor articles, and Mike is completely correct on this one.
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Marc said 2:46AM on 7-24-2007
'All to often' Ha!
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Mike McNamara said 1:37PM on 7-24-2007
Maybe you should go back to school and learn the difference between a blog and a newspaper article. If you don't know what Backpack is, maybe this place isn't for you. Or perhaps, you could look it up on this crazy thing I've heard of...the Internet.
Good luck joining the rest of us in the 21st century.
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