The blist team has been hard at work and is pleased to announce another feature release. Here are some of the highlights of this update.

The performance for loading a blist has been improved.

The blists pane and Favorites pane have been redesigned so that instead of separate panes, they are now combined.

Last release two weeks ago we added CSV import. With today’s release you can now export your blist in CSV format, which is handy if you want to play with your data in Excel. To export, simply load your blist and click on the “Export” button in the File menu.

Booleans have been promoted to first class custom types. A boolean is simply a field that can have only two distinct values. Typically it’s true of false. But if you were tracking applicants you might want “Hire” and “No Hire” or if you were developing a blist of houses you are thinking of buying, you might want “Deal” and “No Deal.” You can even create a custom type of Thumbs Up and Thumbs Down if you want:

Custom types now include Pick Lists and Booleans – two column types over which you have full control. You decide on the text and the icons. Based on your feedback, we made it easier to discover how to create a new pick list.

Another suggestion from people already using blist was to have a starter blist created for you when you create a new account. So we added that too.

The vision we have for blist is to become the first online social database. Part of that entails a sense of community around data that matters. In today’s release we introduce the first live version of the dashboard, with the ability to see what’s going on in the blist community:

The dashboard will evolve often over the next few months.

We added the ability to tag blists and lenses.

We added the ability for you to upload your picture on your profile page.

We’ve also worked to stabilize blist by fixing a number of crucial bugs.

The blist team is committed to building out the feature set, enhancing stability and boosting performance. Look for blist to settle into a steady rhythm of updates to improve the product.