Review: FYI
You might have faced a very embarrassing situation when either your employer or a family member have asked for an important file and you couldn't recall where you have uploaded the file.
Today, we use many file uploading services to upload and share our files. But to manage and recall which file hosted at which service, we couldn't do anything but remembering the service name by heart or noting it down somewhere.
FYI Logo | Credit: Product Hunt
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To lower your pain, and to make your documents avail in an organized way. Enters a solution called as, "FYI".
Yeah, "FYI" - a service that let you to search and manage all your documents in one place.
Introduction to FYI
FYI is an amazing product built by Marie Prokopets and Hiten Shah. FYI helps you to organize all your documents in a better way. This leads to searching documents easily and takes less time than any other method. FYI can be integrated with G Suite, Dropbox, Dropbox Paper, Slack, and OneDrive.
FYI's Homepage | usefyi.com
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FYI is easy to use, its fast and most importantly it's awesome. You don't need to fill a long Sign up or Login form to use it. The sign-up process is very easy as you only have to authenticate it via your existing Google account.
I tried FYI for more than three days. Thus, I am writing a brief review about it.
The 'Sign up' Process.
FYI's Sign up Page | usefyi.com
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To create a workspace on FYI you don't need to fill long form fields. To create your workspace, simply click on the 'Get Started for Free' button on the homepage or click here. Then, choose the type of workspace you want to create. Please specify the purpose of the workspace from the drop-down - be it, work, personal or education related.
The sign-up process is about three steps long that ask to connect the apps such as G Suit, Dropbox, Slack etc. Then you need to install the chrome extension. The overall sign-up process is simple and there's nothing that required the technical knowledge.
To log in to your workspace, you again need to authenticate with Google account.
Workspace
Workspace | usefyi.com
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The Workspace designed by the FYI team is simple and easy to understand at the first glance. The workspace contains apps list, activity feed and a list of people who collaborated in the workspace. The overall design is simple and there's nothing fancy that needs a deep understanding.
The activity feeds is like a timeline that shows every update while the apps list shows the connected app. The most clever thing that I noticed was the use of tags. These tags will help in organizing the documents so that it can be found quickly.
I would suggest to add a step-by-step guide to introduce the things and its feature. For an example purpose, consider this jQuery library (Open this Website and click on the Demo button).
Pricing
The better things never come for free
The pricing to create a workspace for your team, company or for yourself is quite cheap. I really love to know your opinion about the pricing, please tell about this in the comments.
Security
I hesitated to sign up for FYI because I was worried about the security of my documents. I hesitated till I landed up to the 'Protecting Your Documents' page. This page stated the things that were very important and there was nothing to fear about.
Protecting Your Document Page | usefyi.com
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Things you should know if you've hesitated to create a workspace on FYI:
- You own your documents, FYI never stores any of your documents on their servers.
- All data are encrypted using AES-256 GCM Encryption.
- Your data is never mixed with any other person's data.
I would recommend that the things mentioned on 'Protecting Your Documents' page should also be shown on the Sign up page. The ability to turn on or off to display FYI workspace on every new tab will be also helpful, but I liked my workspace appearing on every new tab. It kept me aware about all the latest happenings in my workspace.
No doubt, Marie, and Hiten have done the marvelous job to create FYI. The things I have mentioned above can help the creators to make FYI even better.
I would love to know your opinion as well, don't forget to leave a comment and share this review with your friends, colleagues, and family.
Rating:
🌟🌟🌟🌟 ☄️
4.5 out of 5 or better to say this product scored four stars and one comet, it means that this product is between 'I really liked it' and 'it was amazing'.
I liked to use FYI a lot, it really solved one of the biggest pain of my life. Hope, you'll like it too.
Great review, love your focus on the Onboarding and Security. If you're after a more secure and privacy centric version that fixes a similar problem, I'd recommend checking out Haystack: https://www.haystackapps.com
ReplyDeleteDisclaimer: I helped build it :).