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FYI Desktop â Finally, your âď¸and đĽ documents in one place
Search and organize all your desktop and cloud documents in one place with FYI. FYI Desktop automatically discovers the documents on your computer and lets you find them from anywhere.
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â¤ď¸Marie here. The larger a company is, the more likely that important documents are sitting on peopleâs computers. And the more likely they are to get lost. I personally experienced this when I worked in corporate America at companies with 10s & 100s of thousands of employees.
Meanwhile, there are more document apps than ever. Theyâre really easy to use⌠until youâre trying to find documents đ
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No matter what size company weâre working at, most of us are living in a document mess. We donât remember what folder or app our documents are in. Who made them. Even titles and keywords are a distant memory. We just canât find our documents.
We built FYI to solve this painful problem. Letting people search for documents across their apps using FYI was a huge improvement, but you told us we had to do more. Thatâs why weâre launching FYI Desktop on Product Hunt today. This is one of the top 3 most requested features and weâre excited to release it.
Our goal with FYI is to be the best way to find your documents, no matter where they are. Weâll always have a free plan for anyone to use. Weâre eager to hear what you think and what we should do next.
Tell us what you want đť.
@d0b0 Yes, you can, that's how FYI works. Let us know what you think once you try it out.
This is a great idea! Although, I'm curious about the security of the documents on fyi. How much information of the docs can you (fyi) read, parse and organize? Can you elaborate a little bit more on how the document owner can keep their information protected?
@tabish_gilani Check out our Protecting Your Documents page & let us know if you have more questions https://usefyi.com/protecting-do...
Congrats once again guys. Been using and loving FYI so far, can't wait to give this a try! It'll be awesome if you guys consider adding support for videos although I know they aren't documents but with apps like Loom becoming so popular and video marketing becoming so important, finding videos is also a pain. In fact, I've tried searching for videos on FYI only to realise they aren't documents.
@irhymeth Great idea! We are thinking through how best to support formats that arenât technically documents.
At a first glance, it looks lovely. đ The idea makes sense - search/see all your docs in one place. Would love to check it out.
I don't know how I lived without FYI. I don't want to think about what life would be like without it. FYI seems to launch a magical elf who lives inside my computer and knows exactly where all the files are. It saves me so much time from wandering through folders and cloud drives. If you don't have it, get it.
@marymin Thanks Mary! We're super happy to hear that you're saving time and can't live without FYI đ
Dear FYI - I use my gmail account for business. Please don't block me, or force me to create another email address to use your product.
@stoweboyd You can sign up using your personal email, just select personal instead of work on the "What would you like to use FYI for?" screen
Pretty cool idea @hnshah. Cant wait to try it. Quick question - The hero image on your website shows Evernote....but there is no Evernote integration?
@hnshah @zenunwired Evernote is in testing and coming soon. Please let us know what you think about FYI once you try it!
It gives me a ton of warnings when trying to install the Windows version and then when I try to install it, it says I don't have permissions to access. So I couldn't install and gave up. Just FYI :p
@itswillcurran Thanks for letting us know, we're working on making the Windows experience better.
I NEVER go looking for a document in Google Drive or Dropbox anymore...which feels amazing.
I open a new tab (which is now set to FYI) - and 9 times out of 10, the document i'm looking for is right there in my activity feed. (because either I viewed it in the last 7 days, or one of my coworkers shared it with me). Saves me a lot of time hunting for documents.
I like it, but it highjacked my new tab in Chrome... is there a way to turn that function off without deactivating the extension completely.
@thebradoliver You can download the desktop app and remove the Chrome app. To add the desktop app from Chrome, just click on the ... on the left sidebar by Activity Feed and select "Manage Apps". Youâll see a Mac or Windows icon on both of those screens, click to download.
@marie_prokopets Thanks!!! I can't believe I missed that, I saw the Apple logo and my mind automatically went to iCloud, not Mac app.
Hi. Trying to install the windows version but Windows Defender won't let it install? Am I missing something.
@timehubnz Not missing anything. Windows take a number of installs before the app gets past Windows Defender. Would you mind emailing me what you are seeing? hiten@usefyi.com
@johndesk27 thanks JW! There are two ways to download desktop, in onboarding you can do it when you are adding apps to FYI, or if youâre in the Chrome extension go to manage apps by clicking the ... on the left sidebar by Activity Feed. Youâll see a Mac or Windows icon on both of those screens.
You are moving so fast with the development of FYI. Very nice.
@razvan_girmacea Thanks Razvan! We're doing our best :) and there's much more coming...
@foramraichura Thanks Foram! If you have any feedback on how we can make FYI better for you, let us know đ¸
@handythinks Thanks Chris! Can't wait to hear your thoughts, you've been so incredibly helpful with your feedback. Keep it coming so we can make FYI better for you :)
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