Ideas, insights, and inside looks at how modern teams collaborate, manage work, and scale smarter – with a dash of product updates and stories from the trenches

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Smarter Notifications

Having everyone on the same page is why project collaboration tools are so useful to teams. Because of this, it's very important to decide how people are notified about updates. There are three things to consider when looking for an optimal solution:1. Which events are significant enough to justify the ...

Design 4 min read

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API, Webhooks, Extensions

In broad strokes, the interaction with web and data on the web evolved in three stages. First, there were HTML files (hyper)linking to one another. Then came the tempting age - a user sends a request, web applications processes it and sends out the rendered page based on a template filled with data fetched ...

Labs 3 min read

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New Labels

ActiveCollab 4 has several ways of categorizing and organizing tasks: milestones, labels, categories, and up to three custom fields.After milestones were renamed to task lists and promoted to the primary way of task categorization, it was time to think how we can make tracking the extra bits of task ...

Product 3 min read

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Breaking up With a Term

Naming features may seem trivial, but it's definitely not an easy task. Getting the right name is hard but once you name a feature a certain way you end up with something that guides you in the future and affects your development decisions.What we learned is that you should keep the name as generic as ...

Product 3 min read

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Eemagine - Activecollab From the Early Days

Written by our amazing customer and great friend Aleksandar Cocek from EemagineIt was in my college days when I first heard about ActiveCollab. The time when Internet in Serbia was only a vague term familiar exclusively to a small group of geeks obsessed with RPG games like Elder Scrolls, Warcraft and ...

Customer Stories 2 min read

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ivalue Shares Their ActiveCollab Workflow

Written by our amazing and loyal customer, iValue from BelgiumMy name is Jacob, I’m a productivity geek. I love tools, apps, and technology to increase efficiency. As a project manager, I have tested many tools on the market. ActiveCollab has withstood many tests and challenges I’ve thrown at it.We’re ...

Customer Stories 2 min read

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From Solo Developer to a Team

Customer story written by Ryan Masuga from Masuga DesignI started using ActiveCollab many years ago as a freelance web developer. I wanted to make my young business appear more professional to my clients, so it was important to have a solid project management system in place. It was a great tool then ...

Customer Stories 3 min read