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We make a slew of improvements and release new features every month. From today onwards, we will be publishing monthly blog posts detailing all the major and minor changes we’ve made to our product.

After releasing our new Mac app, we are working towards launching powerful Windows and iPhone apps. Development is progressing at a fast clip, so expect them soon!

Meanwhile, we’ve made some improvements to the web app in the last month. Here’s what’s new:

Favorites moves to sidebar

Many of our users mark their important items as Favorites to access them quickly. At any given day, over a thousand items are marked as favorites. You can now quickly access your most important files from the new ‘Favorites’ tab in sidebar.

Tip: To mark any item as favorite, right-click on it and select ‘Favorite’.

Sorting moves to header

We have updated the header to make space for sorting. Now you can quickly sort your items inside a folder from the “Sort” drop down menu. We’ve also replaced the More button with the popular ‘ooo’ icon that users recognize for contextual options.

Upload larger custom logos

Custom branding is the most popular Jumpshare Plus feature, and we’ve made it even better! You can now upload high-resolution logos that look incredible on 2K and Retina displays.

Better Analytics

Analytics in Jumpshare Plus gives you comprehensive stats on how, where, and when your files are viewed or downloaded. We’ve made two improvements to Analytics to help you make informed decisions faster. You can now instantly preview top files by clicking on the magnifying glass icon 🔍, so you always know which file is popular for any given date range.

Another improvement is when you hover over the file activity graph, you will see both views and downloads count in a single tooltip. It eliminates the need to move your mouse twice to view file activity for each day.

Download files while they’re still processing

Larger, more complex files can take a little more time to process before they can be previewed in our file viewer. We’ve tweaked our design so the recipients you’ve shared files with can download them immediately after upload completes without having to wait for the processing to finish.

Happy sharing!

When you have too many collections, some of your more important ones tend to get lost in the stream. In order to help you quickly access your important collections, we’re launching “Favorities”. Open any collection and click the Star icon next to the collection name in the header. Once you’ve marked a collection as favorite, just head back to the My Uploads dashboard and click the “Favorites” tab to view that collection. We hope this little feature will help you become more productive.

You can click the Favorites tab to view the collections you’ve favorited and not worry about losing them in all the other collections. With “Favorites” you no longer have to be afraid of losing important collections in your stream.

For existing users who have desktop apps installed and for Jumpshare Plus users who use the Inbox feature, by default, we’re marking both “Desktop Uploads” and “Inbox” collections as favorite. This will help you quickly access them from the Favorites tab.

Smarter Thumbnails

We continue to make changes behind the scenes to improve your file sharing experience. Starting today, you will see previews of spreadsheet, code, note, markdown, eBook, font, and CAD file in the thumbnails. You could already preview these files in our file viewer, but getting a glimpse of the content by looking at the thumbnails will help you navigate better.

Happy sharing!

Visit Jumpshare

A big thank you to all those who’ve sent us their feedback over the past couple of weeks for Jumpshare 3.0. It was a big update and you had a lot to say. In response to your feedback, we’ve made several changes to the Jumpshare web app in order to give you a better sharing experience.

Upload takes center stage

There is no action our users perform more than uploading. Every day thousands of users upload tens of thousands of files with the intent of sharing them quickly. So we’re returning ‘Upload’ back to center stage. You can now upload your files straight from the dashboard with a click of the button. All files uploaded from the dashboard go inside a newly created collection, which is automatically named based on the number and type of files you upload (can be renamed later). You can still create a fresh new collection by clicking the drop down arrow next to the Upload button and selecting ‘New Collection’ option.

Multiple thumbnails

Now you get a sneak peak of the files inside each collection by looking at their thumbnails. We’re showing 6 thumbnails for each collection. We’re also showing 4 thumbnails for folders inside collections. We believe by allowing users to quickly glance at the files inside each collection and folder, they will be able to navigate faster, share faster, and be more productive as a result.

Redesigned Inbox

Jumpshare Plus users can receive files from anyone by sharing their unique Inbox link. We’ve made three changes to Inbox. First, we’ve redesigned the entire Inbox page so it’s easier for others to send you files. Second, you can now add custom branding to show your logo on Inbox page. Third, all files received via Inbox now go inside the collection of the same name, where the files are neatly organized by sender name.

Better management of shared files

If you visit the Shared page, you will notice that you can now remove any sharing activity. We’re making the option to remove any sharing activity available to all users. With this option, you can remove shared files that recipients have deleted from their end or any activity that you do not want to keep permanently.

What’s next?

The team is hard at work to release more updates. You will soon have the option for “List” view inside each collection, you will also be able to “Star” your important collections. Last but not least, you will be able to invite others to your collection for collaboration.

We hope you like this update. If you have any features you would like to see or have any feedback, just shoot us an email and you will hear back from us shortly.

Happy sharing!

Visit your dashboard

Today we’re announcing Jumpshare 3.0; a version that fights the clutter on your dashboard and improves file management. We’re introducing both collections and nested folders which will have a significant impact on how you organize your files.

What Is A Collection?

A collection is a group of files and folders that you can share with anyone. Use collections to organize your work by clients, projects, events, etc. Inside each collection, you can upload an unlimited number of files, links, and folders.

Your Dashboard Looks Different Today

When you first login to your dashboard, you will see a default collection called “Previous Uploads”. This collection contains all files you uploaded prior to Jumpshare 3.0. When you upload files using the desktop apps, they will get added to “Desktop Uploads” which is another collection that is created automatically.

We recommend that you create a few collections to organize your projects. Collections can be sorted by “Recently Created” or “Last Modified”. By default, all collections are sorted by “Recently Created”. To create a new collection, click the “New” button on the sidebar.

Inside A Collection

You can upload an unlimited number of files, folders, and links to a collection. We now support folder hierarchy; if you upload a folder (containing sub-folders) we will keep the directory structure intact. You can sort items inside a collection by type, date, name, or size. The default sorting applied to files and folders inside a newly created collection is “type”.

Sharing Collections

You can share your collections as easily as you can share the files and folders inside a collection. In the quest to make file management better, we wanted to ensure the “quick sharing” aspect was not lost.

Keeping Things In Order

Tagging still remains the best way to find files quickly by power users and with Jumpshare 3.0, we now allow users to tag both files and folders inside a collection (previously tagging was restricted to folders only). Because we’re now supporting nested folders, we’ve removed nested tags because they would have become redundant in the large scheme of things. All nested tags will be attached to their parent tags. We’ve also removed the 3 tags per item limitation; now you can apply an unlimited number of tags to any item.

Similarly, you can now merge both files and folders into a single folder so long as they are in the same collection or in the same folder. Previously merging was limited to folders only.

Keeping Things Safe & Private

Starting today, a collection and all items inside it (folders, files, and links) will have it’s own individual lock and self-destruct options. Previously, you could only lock a folder and if you applied a lock, it applied it to all individual files inside that folder which made it hard to share certain files (which you don’t want locked). But now you can choose which folder and file to lock and then share it securely. A locked item will show a lock indicator, which means the recipient will have to enter a password to access it.

Similarly, you can now set any individual item to self-destruct. If you choose to self-destruct a collection or a folder, then all items inside it will also self-destruct.

Faster Uploads

We’ve optimized our multi-part uploading to speed up the process. When you upload a large file, we break it down into multiple parts to speed up the uploading, and when finished, we merge these parts back together. If merging parts of a 200MB file took 60 seconds before, it now takes only 1 second in Jumpshare 3.0. That’s a whooping 6000% increase in speed.

A Slew Of Enhancements

We’ve made a series of enhancements that make using Jumpshare a fantastic experience:

• The thumbnails now show modified date instead of date of creation. The thumbs also show the actual dates for items older than “Yesterday”. Which means instead of showing the relative age of a file as “2 months ago”, we now show “Mar 16”.
• In our file viewer, you will now see a blue outline around the selected file thumbnail at the bottom panel. Hovering over these thumbs will show you the file name in a tooltip.
• When moving between pages, you will now see a progress bar above the header that indicates how much the page has loaded.
• Thumbnails now show the preview of the first file inside a collection or a folder. You can sort or rearrange your files to make a certain image show up first so it appears in the thumbnail.
• Deleting a collection requires you to check additional checkboxes to prevent accidental deletions.
• Newly uploaded videos will now play at 480p quality, up from 360p.
• A new navigation menu shows when you click the “<” button from a 2nd level folder and onwards.

And a ton of other enhancements made on both the front-end and back-end.

Desktop Apps Get Smarter

All files (including screenshots) uploaded from the Jumpshare desktop apps now go in the “Desktop Uploads” collection. Single files are no longer added to a new folder every time you upload them, thus preventing clutter and keeping things more organized.

On both the Mac and Windows apps, we show 5 recently modified items from all collections. So if you upload/modify any file inside any collection on the web, it will show up in the desktop app, thus you can access and share it easily again from the comfort of your desktop without having to visit the website.

What’s Next?

The next step is to allow you to invite others to your collection for direct collaboration. We’re also working on a list view to make browsing your files faster. Our brand new OS X app is in the final stages of development and will launch soon, followed by an iPhone app which is also under development. We’re also working on an API to allow third party developers to build apps and integrate Jumpshare in their products.

If you would like to test our upcoming features and apps before we make them public, you can join our beta testers list here.

Start Sharing!

We recommend that you create a few collections to get started with Jumpshare 3.0. We’ve put a lot of effort into this release after hearing your feedback. We hope you like it. If you have any questions or feedback, shoot us an email at hello@jumpshare.com and we’ll be happy to help.

Happy sharing!

Visit your dashboard