We have to admit that we initially resisted it, but true to our culture of being customer-driven, we are introducing Folders in OfficeDrop. Yep, as of today, You can pretty much do all the good stuff with folders(create, delete, rename, organize, etc,.)  that you can also do in your PC or Mac.

To learn more about the new features and other UI changes, you can watch this 5-minute video or read the rest of this post with screenshots.

Folders:

Folders act much the same as how they do in our desktop computers. Clicking a folder opens the folder to display the documents in that folder. You can move folders around using drag-drop, and share folders. When you share folders, any time you add or remove documents from those shared folders, the recipients automatically see the updated version of your folder. And ofcourse, you can expire the share if you would like.

Folders and Folder actions

Restoring deleted folders from trash, and moving uploaded documents to a folder (while they are being processed) are conspicuous by their absence and we are working to fix that. Stay tuned.

Labels:

The current labels functionality largely remains the same, with one exception. All the label specific actions can now contextually performed right from the Labels display, rather than from the Organize tab.

Label Actions from the label list

Search and Filters:

Our powerful content search functionality got even more juice. After searching for a term, you can now filter the results further by viewing only those documents that belong to a folder, contain a label (or both). You can get more restrictive or less restrictive using the “Any” or “All” filters. You can keep adding folders until you narrow down or clear them all.

Search and filter using folders and labels

Ofcourse, filters work outside of search too. So, for example, you can find out all the documents that are in the “Paperless LLC” folder and have the label “2008″ in them.

UI Refresh:

We have also made some UI refreshes.

• The Entire UI is more (jargon alert!!)  ”AJAX”-ified. What this means is that we dont have to wait for pages to refresh, and provides for a more richer experience. For example, when I am viewing the list of all documents that are not labeled and apply a label to a list of documents, those documents are now removed from the list. This is great when you organize documents periodically by applying labels to them or moving them to folders.
• The “organize” tab and the “share” tab have been replaced with the same functionality offered from the “Labels” and “Shared Items” menus.
• The freed up real estate on the top has now made way to the Search bar.
• Addons, Email preferences, which were all under the account page, have been separated out into a page of their own called “Tools”. (If you read into this that we are going to introduce more such tools in the coming months you would be absolutely right

UI Changes to the Navbar

This is a pretty exciting release for us and the beginning of many more things to come. How do you like the changes? What would you like added (or removed)? Let us know. We’d love to hear from you.