A day or two ago we deployed some new features in blist that many of you might find useful. In addition to a number of bug fixes, we introduced the following new capabilities or features:

Try blist Without an Account

The first change we made is less a feature and more a philosophy. Now you don’t need to sign up to try blist. You can come in, wander around, search for blists, see what other people are using blist for and even create a non-permanent blist without telling us who you are or giving us your email. The point here is that blist is easier to explain by demonstration than with words. How better to show you what blist is than by letting you experience the benefits without signing up? Of course, when you’re ready to create a blist that’s permanent, we need to know who you are.

Groups and Contacts

You can now create groups and can explicitly associate with contacts, which makes it easy to share blists with others. Previously you would share by entering the recipients email address. You can still share by email address but you can now also share with groups and with contacts by using their blist username.

Other New & Improved Features

We’ve had a “Date” column type since day one. We’ve extended it to support date + time. So if you want to log an appointment for precisely at 2:00 p.m. on a specific date, you can.

We continue to improve native Excel import as well as CSV import. We’ve made it faster and more robust and improved the preview, so you can better see how your data will look once it’s in blist.

These enhancements are good, but we’re not done. We’re continuing to focus on making blist better, faster and stronger.