Using Teambox
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Attach images and video
You can insert images and video in most parts of Teambox: Comments and Pages.
To do this, simply copy the usual embed code you’ll find on sites like Youtube and paste it into a comment or note.

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Conversations
Conversations are useful to communicate with other team members and collaborators.
It’s possible to post announcements, ask questions, share links and comments. Any participant can post new conversations and reply to them online or from their email client.
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How to create and edit task list templates
Creating task list templates helps you save time when assigning a recurring set of tasks to your team members or yourself.
First, go to your organization and click on Task List Templates. There, you can create as many templates as you need, and edit your current templates. Just choose a title for the list and start adding the tasks.
Then, go to Tasks in the project where you want the task list to be. You´ll see you can either name the new task list or create a task list from a template. Choose the template and that´s it!
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How to delete your Teambox account
To delete your Teambox account, first leave or delete all your current projects. If one or more projects is archived, unarchive them and then leave or delete the projects.
To leave a project just click on the link “Leave this project” on the bottom right of the screen below the nav. To delete it go to the project´s settings and click on Project Archiving or Deletion. Teambox will only allow you to delete a project if you´re it´s admin.
After that, just go to your Settings page, then Delete Account and click on Delete my account now.
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How to follow your activity with feed readers
You can follow Teambox activities from News Readers (Desktop or Mobile).
Teambox offers RSS feeds for the activity stream. By using a Feed Reader on your computer or mobile device, you will receive notifications from activities in your projects.
Some good News Readers our users recommend are:
- Mac, iPhone and iPad: NetNewsWire
- Mac: NewsFire.
- Windows: FeedReader.
- Web-based:
Google Reader.
To follow activities from all your projects, visit http://teambox.com and find a link in the sidebar called Subscribe to the news feed.. Right-click it, and select Copy link address. That is the address that you
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How to migrate a project from one organization to another
Say you manage a bunch of projects for clients in your organization and now you want to create a separate organization for a specific client, moving there all the information related to it. Or, you´ve started using Teambox in your department and now the company has a corporate organization.
Teambox allows you to move projects from one organization to another very easily. Just follow these instructions:
First, make sure you´re admin for the original organization and for the projects to be moved. Then, go to each project you want to move and click on General Settings. There, you´ll see a
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How to sync Teambox with your Google account
Synchronizing your Teambox account with your Google account has a lot of benefits. Some of them are:
1) You can easily share Google Docs on any conversation or task avoiding multiple versions of a document and using Teambox storage (there´s an icon for this in tasks and conversations).
2) You can keep track of your Teambox tasks with your Google Calendar.To do this, link your Teambox to Google in Settings/Linked Accounts.
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Tasks
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Time tracking
If you want to track the time your team spends in each activity, you can use Teambox’s time-tracking.
You’ll be able to extract reports across all your projects, filtering by user and project.
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Using Teambox via email
You can easily use your email to post comments in Teambox.
Whenever somebody posts an element relevant to you, you will receive an email notification.
These email notifications can be configured in your Settings, if you do not wish to receive emails.