Share activities
You can share activities with other people by entering their contact info directly into the team field. Just begin typing a name, alias or email address directly into the field. Notice that as you type, a list of possible matches from your contacts appears. When you see the contact you wish to share an activity with, select it and hit <tab> or <enter>. The contact will be added to your team. You can add as many team members as you like to any activity.
Once you have added some contacts to your team, hit <enter> or click anywhere outside the Team field. Your team will be saved, and the activity will be sent to every member of the new team.
If the email is not registered with Accomplice, you will be asked if you would like to invite the person to begin using Accomplice. If you decide to invite the person, we will send an email to them inviting them on your behalf, and informing them how to download and begin using Accomplice. When they start using Accomplice, the activity you have shared with them will arrive at the top of their activity list.
Once you begin sharing an activity with a team, all subsequent subtasks of that shared activity will be automatically shared with the same team. If you would like to add some subtasks that you do not want to share with your team, just create the subtask as you normally would, and then click on the down arrow in the team field, and unshare the subtask. To learn more about unsharing, click here.
Manage your shared activities
After you've begun sharing activities with your teammates, you can use the team field to quickly assess who is doing what, and where you should focus your attention. As you look over your shared activities, you may notice that some of them are displayed in regular font, whereas others are displayed in blue italics.
The activities that are displayed in regular font are the shared activities that you own. To learn more about what it means to "own" an activity, click here.
The activities that are displayed in blue italics are activities that you do not own, but that you are sharing with other people.
You can make adjustments to your team by clicking on the small down arrow in the team field. This opens up the Team Edit box, where you can change who owns an activity, add or remove people from the team, add the activity's team to all subtasks, share all your notes linked to the activity, or watch the activity closer.
As you glance down the team field, you will see the names of all the people on the team sharing each individual activity. The owners of any given activity are displayed first in the team panel, in regular blue font. All the the other team members are displayed in faded italics. This is designed to give you a quick view of who is working on what, and who you should go to if you have questions about any particular shared task.
For instance, in the example below, Jessica Q is sharing the activity "renaissance 'wit' and its legacy" with Allen T. Jessica's activity is displayed in blue italic font, which means that she is a team member on the activity -- not an owner. Jessica can see that Allen is the owner, because his name is the first one displayed in the team field, and his name is displayed in regular font -- not italics.
On the other hand, if we look at Allen's system, things look a little different. Notice how "renaissnace 'wit' and its legacy" is displayed in regular font in Allen's activity list. This tells him that he owns that activity. He can also see that Jessica is one of his team members, because her name is listed in the team field in italic font.
The team field also shows you who has not yet decided whether or not to join the team. Whenever you see a contact listed with a small hourglass icon, you know that s/he has not yet decided whether to join the team by accepting the shared activity. In the example below, Allen (a team member) can see that Jessica has not yet accepted her role as an owner on the activity named "role of the fool in restoration drama."
