Changelog
Over the last few months, we've been hard at work rebuilding our platform from the ground up to improve performance, add 🔥features, and building new import and on-boarding flows. We're excited to share what we've done.
We've improved the dashboard experience to be faster, cleaner, and more actionable. Use shortcuts to snooze keep-in-touch contacts, see upcoming birthdays, and keep your contacts up to date. Check it out here:
For each contact, we've added a page specific to each contact. These contact pages are also completely tabbable and support use of our command bar, so you can add events see details quickly and easily. Open a contact by searching for them in Dex or clicking on them.
We've also significantly improved the group experience in Dex. Customize groups with your own emoji and description. Use the Groups Browser page to drag-and-drop to organize into groups 👪:
You can now choose to import from Facebook and LinkedIn! By default, Facebook imports include birthdays 🎂 and LinkedIn imports include location 🌇. We'll automatically merge your imported LinkedIn/Facebook contacts during the import process, which you can try here.
We've rebuilt our import experience for Gmail and Google Contacts.
New✨: if you use labels in Google Contacts, you can use your 'Import from Gmail' to import your contacts with labels (we'll create groups to match label names automatically in Dex)
We've made merging contacts much faster. After import, you can go to our new Merge & Fix page that merges contacts imported across different sources.
Hope everyone is having a great holiday season!
Want to see all your past notes in Dex? Do this with the new timeline page, where you can add new notes and tag multiple contacts.
We've improved many of the key actions you can do in Dex, making them snappier and more responsive by upgrading our databases and interactions.
Our next look 💅
We've been hard at work on our next Dex experience, with brand new views, onboarding, and functionality. If you're interested in testing our new interface out before we launch it, please let me know!
See your keep-in-touch contacts, reminders, birthdays and other suggestions from the new Dashboard! The Dashboard provides essential information to keep you up to date with your relationships.
You can now add contacts directly from Instagram with our Chrome extension! After you add a contact's Instagram profile, you'll be able to access them with one click from a contacts' profile and the Dex mobile app.
The new dropdown menu at the top right of the dashboard gives you quick access to your Dex account, settings, and other features
🐛 Fixes and Improvements
Better Export: we've added birthdays, groups, and all remaining fields to the contacts export. Also -- export your notes! 📝
Weekly Keep-in-Touch: we've added the ability for users to choose a 'weekly' keep-in-touch option for contacts.
Extension Performance: we've improved performance in the extension, Dex now loads faster across all sites!
Fixed an issue where users couldn't login after installing the mobile app.
Fixed an issue where users couldn't see the Dex button on a Facebook profile
We're excited to introduce a command bar for the power users! To get started type Cmd + K (or Ctrl +K) to show the Command Bar. From here, you can search through the list of commands in Dex and perform actions by clicking on them.
Keyboard shortcuts are another way for you to take quick actions, navigate the web platform, and update contact details in Dex. To see all of the supported shortcuts, type "?" anywhere to bring up the list of commands.
Setting a lot of one-time reminders? See all your past and upcoming reminders from the new reminders panel. To open, click the Alarm clock in the upper right corner, or visit: https://getdex.com/reminders.
You can finally tag other contacts in your notes! On a contact timeline, tag different contacts using the "@" key. Other contacts will be added automatically, and notes will appear across other timelines.
Want to add more structure to your timeline events? You can now put bold, italics, links, bullets, numbered lists in your notes. Simply highlight text in a note to view formatting options.
🐛 Fixes and Improvements
Event Drafting: If you leave move to another view while drafting a timeline event, you can just return to the timeline event and your written note will be saved automatically.
Add Button for Social Networks: Contact social media has a Button (+) to set social networks.
LinkedIn Importing: Fixed an issue where users who were importing from LinkedIn were only able to add a small number of connections
Mobile App: We've made many bugfixes, improvements, and feature releases. to get started with the mobile app, visit: https://guide.getdex.com/getting-started/dex-mobile-app
We've been hard at work building new features. We're also super excited to announce mobile apps on both iOS and Android are available for public testing!
For users that haven't seen it already, we've made the process of importing from Facebook and LinkedIn easier and more robust. Simply click the green 'Import' button to get started.
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We've launched a new contact detail panel that is cleaner and easier to navigate. Add custom fields, see your last interaction, and more!
The main contact list now groups contacts by last event, sorts by name to make merging easier, and is easily searchable like an email inbox. Give it a try here and on any of your groups pages!
We're ready for you to try the mobile app. For Android users, try download the Dex Mobile App from the Play Store here. For iOS users, join our Testflight Beta. Note: you'll need already have signed up for Dex to get started.
🐛 Fixes and Improvements
Bulk Contact Deletion: fixed an issue where deleting multiple contacts would reset the scroll on the contact table.
Extension Support for New Facebook: we've fixed an issue where the Dex button was not consistently displaying in the new Facebook layout.
LinkedIn Title Bug: we've fixed an issue where adding someone via LinkedIn messages would resolve the wrong job title.
New! LinkedIn Location: we now support adding contact locations when you add a contact via the extension
With Dex, you can now save birthdays and receive reminders for upcoming contacts. You can add birthdays in the web dashboard, import with Facebook, and your birthdays in a separate birthdays dashboard as well.
We've created the simple drag-and-drop interface for you to set the keep-in-touch frequency of your contacts. Give it a try on your desktop here.
We've updated the main extension page to allow for faster access to keep-in-touch and starred contacts. Now you can quickly write notes and set reminders for your most recent and important contacts.
(we've been hard at work improving our mobile app, extension, and web dashboard but haven't written changelogs 😅)
