Product Update: Tgethr now integrates with other services like Dropbox
We wanted to show you a very cool new feature to tgethr we launched today. It’s the ability to add on 3rd party services to any of your groups.
There’s a lot of great apps out there, that just don’t do email. For example Dropbox is a tremendous service for syncing files amongst computers and sharing with a team. But lots of people just want to forward emails that have attachments (from iPhones for example) into their dropbox.
Tgethr now gives you a very versatile email address you can do things like this with. So after you create a Tgethr account, here we are creating a group we’ll use with Dropbox.
You can pick as simple or complex of an email as you want. Remember, if the email is too simple you may receive some spam to this email address if the spammer can guess both your tgethr email address as well as your personal email address. That’s way we also offer accounts where you can use an email certificate and completely eliminate any spam to a very simply named tgethr group.
If you just need a simple way to email Dropbox and not collaborate with anyone feel free to invite no one else to your group.
After your group is created, click edit.
Then click the “add additional services to your tgethr group”
Here you can pick services that you want to add. We are busy adding some fun ones that we need, but let us know if there’s something you really need.
After clicking “Add Dropbox”, we tell tgethr a username/password combination we have at Dropbox. We also can tell tgethr a root folder we’d like to place any of these files. Here we’ll use “project_files”.
That’s all there is to it. Next time you email this tgethr group or use the tgethr web interface to share a file with the group, that file will also automatically get sent to your drop box folder.
If you want to add any other folders to “project_files” you can add a hashtag like this to your message:
And those additional folders will get created and used for you. Like so:
Hope you’ve been enjoying tgethr and the holidays!
