AwayFind Orchant is a completely different product than AwayFind 1.0. I wanted to take a moment to ensure you were familiar with what’s changed and why.
We’re solving the same problem–keeping people away from email without worrying about missing anything–but our approach is completely different. Then again, it’s exactly the approach our users asked for. There were two things our users requested most:
- The ability to get certain people’s messages automatically turned into alerts (SMS or otherwise)
- More control over who received auto response messages, and how often they went out
We’ve got both of these features now, in the form of:
1. Filters
Filters monitor your email accounts for whatever or whomever you’re looking for…and then can alert you when those messages arrive. Here’s a quick demo:
2. Intelligent Auto Responders
Intelligent Auto Responders allow you to send an auto response once every 180 days (or however often you’d like), rather than in response to every message you receive. Better yet, you can set custom messages to go to specific people, and prevent some people from ever receiving an auto responder at all. Here’s more:
Those are our biggest changes, and they required us to grow from a small contact form that sent you SMS’s, into an intelligent application that directly interacts with your email accounts. In brief:
- AwayFind 1.0 allowed others to reach you with their emergencies
- AwayFind Orchant allows you to be reached from the people or topics that you consider to be urgent
Fortunately all of the AwayFind 1.0 features still exist so you get the best of both worlds. But now you don’t have to worry about missing a message from your boss, family, or an important client—you get to choose what’s urgent!
Along with this, AwayFind got a redesign and a bunch of new contact methods—we can now notify people anywhere in the world through SMS, Voice, IM, or Twitter DM.
We’ve seen that these changes have made a huge impact on our thousands of customers. But many more helpful features will be coming soon!
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