Expect an invitation in your email in the next few days. It will lead you through the next steps to create an account on the Samepage platform. Check your spam folder if it’s missing.
You’ll be added to both our teams:
- Important Band Information
- Member Social Chitchat
This will give you access to each team chat. The “chitchat” one is great for conversing with bandmates and sharing anything you’d like, while keeping the “important information” thread free from too much clutter.
Samepage Tips
Here are a couple tips to help you make the best use of Samepage.
You may want to bookmark this page to review once you have your Samepage access.
Tip 1: Review Later
When there’s a message sent out that you know you’re going to want to retrieve quickly sometime later, you can save that message by using the “Review Later” function. Now you don’t have to weed through a long thread of health and attendance updates or anything else that was posted in the interim since the message you’re looking for came out. You’ll quickly be able to reference such things as John’s links to practice videos, rehearsal dates, or the song order for an upcoming performance, by select it from a short list of your saved “To Review” messages. This is especially helpful when an outbreak of sickness or some other meaningful event has generated a heavier than normal amount of traffic in the chat thread.
Saving in the app:
Hold your finger down on the message to bring up a menu of options to perform with that message. The “Review Later” option is there. To retrieve a saved message later in the app, tap the circle at the bottom center of the screen for the green main menu, and the “To Review” option will be there.
Saving on the website:
Hover your mouse pointer over a message. A little box should then display in the corner of the message, with 3 squares. The third square has 3 dots. Click those 3 dots to bring up a menu of options that will include “Review Later”. To retrieve a saved message later on the website, the green main menu shows in the green bar down the left side of the page, where the “To Review” option should be listed.
Messages saved on the website can be retrieved in
the app, and vise versa.
Tip 2: Receive messages as emails.
If you’re like me, you get more than enough notifications on your phone throughout the day, and you check your email frequently enough that many things don’t need a notification. They can just be an email. If this is the case for you, you may want to do as I do and just have Samepage messages go to your email. By default I don’t think Samepage is set to do this, but all you have to do is change your notification preferences to “Send me email notifications when I am away” and then close any apps or browser tabs where you already have Samepage open. You may also have to disable notifications for the Samepage app in your phone’s settings for this to work.
Every email notification it sends will have a link you can click to open the message in the app or website, which is good because some of the messages that are longer or have links (like Johns practice videos) aren’t able to display all their content in the email, but many text-only messages will show just fine. I often end up clicking the link just to catch up on the whole conversation in Samepage itself (app or site depending on which device I’m on). That’s generally easier than trying to follow a conversation by reading through the emails. Once I’m confident I’ve caught up on anything important, I delete any remaining emails and close Samepage so it will resume emailing me anything I miss. Even when I’ve missed the earliest part of the conversation, it’s usually not too late for a response and I’m usually glad it didn’t ding my phone to interrupt what I was doing earlier because our messages are rarely all that urgent.
How to set up receiving messages as emails:
To get to your profile and change notification settings, sign into Samepage from a computer browser (unfortunately I don’t know a way to access these settings in the app). Tap your profile picture/silhouette in the bottom left corner of the page (bottom of the green main menu bar all the way down that side), then choose “Notifications”. You can adjust the settings to your liking there. The app has other notification settings you can adjust too. To see those options, tap the circle in the bottom center and then your profile picture/silhouette in the top right corner of the screen. As everyone’s preferences can vary, you might like a different setup than I, but at least you now know where to set it how you like it.
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