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A while ago I presented you the initial set of Refinder´s bulk operations functionality. In the meantime, the range of bulk operations got extended. In this post I´m going to focus on the new bulk function "Relate to a thing".

Bulk operations summarize all activities, which you can apply to multiple Things, like deletion or the assignment of multiple Things into a collection. 

To quickly recap how this is done:

In previous posts we told you about the interaction between Refinder and Dropbox. In short: once you connect a Dropbox folder with Refinder, all your Dropbox files become Things in a collection of your choice. From here, you can share, link and comment them. Beyond that, you can not only search for Dropbox files, but even search within your Dropbox files through the Refinder search functionality. 

But what about non-textual files, like images?

In the hectic rush of day-to-day work, employees need constant awareness of what is going on across their workplace, projects or areas of interest. For Refinder, this meant to provide a central landing page  (https://www.getrefinder.com/home/), which furnishes quick access to a highly informative and insightful snapshot of ones momentous business activities.

No reason to evangelize collaboration without taking a closer look at how people actually do their work. One of the outstanding facts of today´s digital workplace is, that it is increasingly tied up with cloud based applications.  What has started with consumer services years ago, has spilled over into the world of business. Services like Google Docs or Dropbox are runaway success stories and deeply entrenched in the minds of the digitally enabled workforce.

Refinder offers plenty of options to configure your account. Recently we applied a couple of enhancements to the accessibility of account settings, intending to make the configuration process even smoother. 

First of all, a new page got added, http://www.getrefinder.com/account/, which gives you a nice overview and gateway to the entire variety of user settings.

Commenting is probably on its way to emerge as one of the most important digital communications channels of today. With the introduction of Web 2.0, commenting has been established as a base-case functionality. Blogpost, social networks, photo sharing sites, e-commerce shops - all put a bet on the power of comments.

I do a lot of research. Finding, evaluating and collecting interesting stuff is prerequisite to my work. In this post, I´m going to describe some of the workflows I adopted over time, while using Refinder as research tool.

The central piece of a collaborative social network is the activity stream. In it´s basic form, the activity stream is a chronological list of content, that displays the activities of users and applications. In the main consumer social networks, activity streams contain the status updates of the people you follow, including their posts of images, videos or links to interesting online sources.

Image previews are a nice little enhancement for the Refinder user interface. As a first step towards general file previews, Refinder got enabled to display image previews.

When you found the right papers on SciVerse, bring them together with Refinder. It helps you to create a shared knowledge base in a research team.