Working as a team
Point everyone at the same library folder and the folder does the rest. There is no server to set up and nothing to upload.
A library on a shared drive #
The smoothest home for a team: a NAS or a shared network drive everyone already connects to.
- Make the library on the shared drive, and choose Network share / NAS under Where will this live? (Make a library).
- Everyone else clicks the folder menu at the top left, chooses Open a folder… and picks the same folder.
- Everyone's notes land on one timeline, each person in their own colour, within seconds of being added.
The People list in the library shows who works in it and who is active now. Who can change what is set the way the rest of the drive is: by its folder permissions. A person with read-only access can watch and read, but not add.
The free app takes up to 5 people adding to a library; reading, playing and sending never count. Team takes 12, and Studio 50 or 100. More in the FAQ.
A library on a cloud drive #
Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive or iCloud work too: the library is a folder the cloud app keeps in sync on everyone's computer.
- Make the library inside the synced folder and choose Cloud sync under Where will this live?
- Add a project and its reviews as usual (Add your first review). They reach everyone once the cloud app has synced them.
- Each person opens it with Open a folder… from their own synced copy, once you've shared the folder with them in the cloud app. A video may download from the cloud drive the first time it plays.
A colleague's notes arrive the same way, once the cloud app has synced them. When the cloud app makes a "conflicted copy" of someone's notes, ReviewDeck says so instead of showing it twice. A shared drive or NAS is still the quicker home for a busy library.
Needs you and pop-ups #
ReviewDeck keeps track of what needs your eyes, so nobody has to go looking.
- Needs you in the projects panel collects the reviews waiting on you. It shows whenever there is one.
- A review lands there when someone leaves notes on one you uploaded, replies to you, @mentions you, or adds a new version of one you've opened.
- Open the review and it leaves the list.
Pop-ups and the count
On Windows the taskbar button carries the count, and on a Mac the Dock icon. When ReviewDeck isn't in front, a pop-up names who left the note and on which review; click it to open the review. Settings, under Notifications:
- Show pop-up notifications
- Turns the pop-ups on or off.
- Keep running in the tray when I close the window
- Windows only: the count and pop-ups carry on with the window closed.
- Notify me
- The count and pop-ups, library by library. A saved library with its own Team or Studio licence counts even when it isn't open.
On a Mac, the Dock count and pop-ups work once notifications are allowed for ReviewDeck in System Settings.
Copy link #
A link to a review for anyone who has the library: paste it in a chat or an email and it opens in ReviewDeck at that review.
- Open the review and click Copy link, or right-click its card in the library and choose Copy link.
- Paste it into a message. In Slack it shows as the review's name and version, like BossIntro v3.
- Clicking it opens a page in the browser that hands it to ReviewDeck, which opens at that review.
The first time, the browser asks to open ReviewDeck. Tick Always allow and it won't ask again. The link opens on any computer that has opened that library in ReviewDeck before. Anywhere else the app says it can't open the link and offers Open a folder… The link only points at the review; the review itself stays in your library. For someone outside the library, send them a copy instead: Send outside the library.
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