Eachday

Today we are rolling out a major new improvement to your Eachday account: the Overview page.

In the past, when you’ve gone to your main account address, you would simply see the latest day in your account. We have thought for awhile now that something was missing here; that your Eachday account needed to show a bigger picture at the top level. Think of this Overview as the “book cover” on your account; a page to welcome your friends and family and give them a bird’s eye view of your recent life.

Visit this account overview as a example – http://elliotts.eachday.com. Here is what you will see:

In the middle is a list of the most recent days we have added. From here you may to go to each of these days, or “expand thumbnails” and go directly to any of these recent memories. This provides a wider view of our latest activity before going to these individual days. Notice that when you go to an individual day, those are just the same as they were before. So individual days will remain familiar to you – this Overview is all that has changed.

In the right column of the Overview page is the other major change: a Profile panel. It is not required that you create a Profile to use Eachday, but it is very simple to do so and creating a Profile will enhance your Eachday experience, even if you have password protected your Eachday account. Why? Because you can do these great things with it:

• Add a profile picture: an image that represents you, your account, or your family. Think of this as the welcome image, and this may be changed at any time. It will also appear in any comments you make on other Eachday accounts.

• Add some text about you or your account to welcome your Visitors.

• A Guestbook. Visitors may leave comments directly on your Profile.

• Add links to favorite memories. You may call attention to your favorite memories by listing links to them here. To do so, simply log in to your account, then visit any day, collection, or individual memory and click the “Favorite” icon in the upper right of each memory.

• Add links to other, external websites

• Add friends on Eachday. If you know other Eachdayers, simply enter their account name and they will appear in a list here. In this list, direct links to the last 5 days each friend has added will be displayed, so this serves as a great centralized place to check up on your friends’ latest activity.

Another thing to note: When you log in to your account now, this Overview page will be the central place to upload your memories, with just a single “Add Your Memories” button displayed. As before, you may also use the calendar to go to any day in the past to upload or edit a day directly.

We have signed up many new Eachdayers over the last 6 weeks, but we have actually not officially announced our launch yet. We plan to roll out some more features, fixes and changes in the next week before we make our big announcement.

If you have any difficulty or questions with your Overview page or Profile, please send us your feedback!