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 personalized intranet for their company or team. No technical knowledge is required: just use drag & drop. Nothing to host or to install. Super easy. You can create pages to share news, information, files, images, and more with your colleagues and clients. You can even add custom online forms, which you can use to collect data and process requests. Social features such as the activity stream help you to improve communication and work better together. With the powerful search bar you can find back all your information, discussions and documents instantly.
Since we started the beta in the summer of last year, we have added a lot of features and improvements (powerful instant search, activity stream, visual version history, updated design, Google Apps integration, just to name a few). As always we will continue to add more functionality, and we always appreciate your feedback! We really love working on this and we have big plans to take Papyrs further in the future!
Subscription Plans
With the end of the beta we’re also introducing the subscription plans today. We decided to keep it really simple: $5 (€4) per user per month, that’s it. No page, form, or file limit! People you invite via email to share a page, but are not in your team, do not count towards the number of users. For the very small teams or one man shops out there, we also have a Free plan for up to two users.
If you sign up within the next 7 days you’ll get a 10% life-time discount with the coupon LAUNCH10!
You can find updates information on Papyrs and the subscription plans at www.papyrs.com/signup/. The documentation and support pages are also updated.
What happens to us beta users?
You will receive an email today and a notice bar will be displayed in Papyrs. Your account will be converted to a free trial, so you will get an extra fully-featured 30 days to either pick a subscription or a Free account. As a thank you for all our beta users, if you subscribe within 7 days you get an extra beta discount on your Papyrs subscription – for life!
We hope you enjoy using Papyrs and we’ll keep you updated on this blog about the big plans we have in store for Papyrs in the future!
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 is in red, newly added text in green. Changes to image galleries, forms, and other widgets are also highlighted for easy comparison.
Select which two versions you wish to compare
Compare pages with a click of a button. That’s it. Have a nice weekend everybody!
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 waste more than a few seconds to find back that document, that attachment to a certain form, or a discussion with your co-worker. Of course Papyrs will only show items in the search results for which you have the necessary permissions.
Search your entrie Papyrs intranet in milliseconds: Papyrs finds your pages, comments, contacts, files, and submitted forms (click for larger screenshot)
Searches within attachments
Papyrs will also searche within attachments. You can find text contained in PDF files, Word documents and Excel spreadsheets. Do you want us to search within other types of documents as well? Just drop us a line at team@stunf.com and let us know.
Advanced Search
There are also a number of advanced search options:
| Command | Result |
|---|---|
| Keyword | Finds all pages, files, etc, that contain that keyword. |
| Keyword AnotherKeyword | Finds all pages, files, etc, that contain both keywords. |
| Keyword -AnotherKeyword | Finds all pages, files, etc, that contain Keyword but not AnotherKeyword. |
| Keyword | Anotherkeyword | Finds all pages, files, etc, that contain either of the keywords. |
| (One & Keyword) | Anotherkeyword | Use braces for more complex queries… |
| “exact match” | Use quotes to search for an exact sequence of keywords. |
Prettier URLs
In the previous version of Papyrs links looked pretty complex. A typical page would have a link that looked like https://yoursite.papyrs.com/page/5441/This-is-title-of-the-page. Hard to remember and hard to type! Also, if you shared the page with others by email or if you made the page open to the public the link would change. It would start with https://yoursite-public instead). That just wasn’t very convenient, so we’ve changed it. Links to your papyrs pages now look like this: https://yoursite.papyrs.com/Your-Page. Simple and easy to type! If the page is shared or public, people you share the page with can access the page with the same link.
When you go to the document’s settings page you can change the location (URL):
Change the location of the page
Smaller changes
1. You can now share profile pages by email address and make profile pages public.
2. You can now link to conversations on pages and on the Activity Feed. Easy if you want to send a link to a conversation via Instant Message or by email.
Link to conversations on the Activity Feed
That’s it
We’re really thrilled to start the year with these new additions, and we think the Search is going to save everybody a lot of time! More new features coming soon!
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 happening in your team. You can find all the latest actions, post or view comments and status updates for everyone in your team or in a specific subgroup.
Streams have been an important part of many modern social networks, and are also becoming an important way to communicate within businesses and organizations. It’s an easy way to get your announcements or questions & answers out to entire teams, without spamming and cluttering their Inbox. This also makes it easier for other people to reply on activity items, participate in discussions and keep people up to date about their progress. Because inactive discussions automatically ‘sink’ to the bottom of the stream, the stream is good central place for both having active discussions as well as posting about updates (like micro blogging social networks).
Example of the Activity Stream (click for larger screenshot)
Because the Activity Stream is fully integrated with the other functionality in Papyrs, any updates to pages and forms are automatically posted to the stream, and visible only to people with permission to view this type of activity. For example, when Mary submits an Expense Reimbursement form and Mark from Accounting denies the request, it will be visible for her in the Activity Stream and she can directly access the form to add that missing receipt.
The Stream also supports sharing with and subscribing to items only within certain sub groups. It’s also possible to add a summary of recent activity to your pages using the Navigation widget, e.g. on your homepage. Finally, discussions on pages now also support replies on comments (threading), and new posts appear in the Stream as well.
UI Design Updates
Screenshot showing the new design – Editing a page
We also made some updates to the UI design of Papyrs, and added new buttons to the top of the page to quickly switch between the main parts of Papyrs (home page, page navigation, activity stream, people directory and settings).
We hope you like the new look and features!
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 and clients. Easily create pages with rich notes, documents, images and much more to share all your information. Add custom online forms to collect data and process requests. It’s all very easy to use, so there’s no technical knowledge required!
Papyrs integrates seamlessly with Google Apps. After adding Papyrs you can:
- Start using Papyrs with your existing Google account (Single Sign On); no extra log in or account required!
- Navigate between Papyrs and your other Google apps using Google’s universal navigation.
- Invite other users from your apps domain to start collaborating with Papyrs. Start sharing information and collecting data within minutes. (inviting users outside your domain is also supported!)
