June 2010
2 posts
The Soshiku app is now 50% off until July 23rd
The Soshiku app for the Palm Pre and Palm Pixi is now 50% off - just $1 - in the App Catalog until July 9th 23rd. But don’t thank us, thank Palm! They’ve made all the apps in the App Catalog half-off (while reimbursing the developers for full price) so now would be your chance to get all the apps you want while supporting the developers for their hard work. Have a great weekend!
Edit:...
Soshiku has a new toll-free support number
Hey there, we just redesigned our contact page. Take a look! And do you know what else is new? We have a new support phone number! If you have any kind of questions or concerns, just call us at 1 (877) 395-1151 to speak to a live person (me, of course ;)) or you can leave a message and I’ll gladly call you back.
Customer support is very important to me, as I want all of you to be happy with...
May 2010
4 posts
Top 25 Free & Freemium Web Apps for College... →
Thanks to Nurse E.D.U. for including Soshiku as number 7!
Soshiku has been featured on Chompie!
A big thank you to the people at Chompie.com for featuring Soshiku on their site. In their words, “Chompie actively updates a collection of the most useful new websites, applications, products and services on the internet.” Glad to know Soshiku fits their criteria!
Soshiku on Chompie
Are you a Pro user? Take our survey!
If you are a Pro user, you’ll see a message (shown above) with a link to a survey the next time you log in. This survey will help us know what you like and dislike about Pro, and what we can do to make it even more useful to you. Thanks so much!
Feature update: discussion email notifications
Last year in August we added a new feature that let you receive email updates when new messages were posted on certain assignments, but you had to click a checkbox for every assignment you wanted updates for.
With the launch of our newest feature (sharing assignments with partners), we’ve decided to merge the two features and make it more automated. Instead of having to explicitly mark...
April 2010
4 posts
How to get SMS notifications if you're not in the...
I get plenty of emails from people in other countries asking if there is some way they can use the text message notification feature of Soshiku. I frown every time I have to say “sorry, you’re out of luck” since the text messaging service we use does not support carriers outside of the US at this time.
There is a workaround, however, but only if you don’t plan on having...
Soshiku 1.1 for Palm Pre and Pixi now available...
Soshiku 1.1 for the Palm Pre and the Palm Pixi has just been approved in the App Catalog! This update includes:
The ability to create recurring assignments (available to Pro users)
Amount of incomplete tasks are shown next to assignment names
A check mark is shown next to completed assignments
A recurring symbol is shown next to recurring assignments
The ability to edit and delete...
New in Soshiku: Share Assignments with Partners...
We just released a big new feature: sharing assignments with partners. Yes, your partners have always been able to access, add tasks, and attach files to your assignments, but how would they get to them? Either you had to send them the link or they had to go to your profile and look in your activity feed for the assignment.
Not anymore! Now, whenever you add or edit an assignment, you have the...
Add recurring assignments via SMS, email, and...
Pro users are now able to add recurring assignments via text messaging, email, and quick-add. We’ve added both an “every” and “recurring” keyword to make the assignment recurring, however they vary slightly. For example,
Journal entry in english due every tuesday
Sets the due date to next tuesday and makes it recur. But if you have a recurring assignment which is...
March 2010
3 posts
Soshiku 1.0.1 for webOS now available
Soshiku 1.0.1 is now available in the App Catalog for the Palm Pre and Pixi. This update includes:
A “sign up” button on the login screen for new users
The enter key submits the login form
When viewing an assignment, only incomplete tasks are fetched instead of all tasks (speeds up loading time)
When viewing an assignment, tasks that are assigned to other people now have the...
Soshiku Pro - not bad for an 18-year old
The awesome Christopher Dawson over at ZDNet Education, who has written about Soshiku back in 2008, has just shared his thoughts about Soshiku Pro. He writes:
While this is all well and good, many of the students who could benefit the most often can’t afford the $5/month. If Soshiku were to explore licensing deals with schools, however, then districts could provide the service to their students...
Introducing Soshiku Pro!
We’re excited to announce that we’ve just launched Soshiku Pro. Soshiku Pro is a new subscription-based paid plan which comes with some really cool new features. Here’s what you get if you upgrade to Soshiku Pro:
Unlimited Everything — With the free plan, you can only have 10 courses, 20 assignments, 20 tasks, and 10 attachments.* Once you run out of space, you have to delete...
February 2010
3 posts
Soshiku now available for the Palm Pre
Soshiku is now available for the Palm Pre & Palm Pixi! Here are the features:
Manage your courses and assignments
Edit notes
Add and check off tasks
View attachments
Share messages with your partners
Receive email and/or SMS notifications
The Soshiku app syncs with your account on Soshiku.com. Find it for just $1.99 on the App Catalog.
Soshiku for webOS source now on Github
Hey webOS developers! Want to help us test out the Soshiku app on a device and send feedback before we submit it to the app catalog? The source is now on Github.
The Future
Since there hasn’t been any exciting or big news in these past months, it might seem like the development of Soshiku has been stagnant. Today I decided that Nonatomic should be more transparent, so I’d like to share with all of you what’s happening, why there hasn’t been significant updates, and the roadmap for everything I want to do in the future.
These are listed in the...
January 2010
2 posts
Add assignments to courses with long names more...
An anonymous user on our UserVoice site came up with a good point:
It’s great that I have a course called “Historical Challenges of the Roman Catholic Church”. But it’s a total pain in the rear to text!
Well I’m glad to announce that we’ve made it easier to add assignments to courses with lengthy names when using SMS. Now, Soshiku first looks for courses with...
October 2009
2 posts
New redesign, new business name
Soshiku’s company has a new name!
We’ve changed our name from Definitialize to Nonatomic. Actually, Definitialize was not an official business since it has never been registered as one. The name was a placeholder until we could think of a better name for our official business. We didn’t like Definitialize too much, so we went with Nonatomic. And good news: Nonatomic has been...
Preview the new Soshiku redesign
We’ve been hard at work with giving Soshiku a much-needed facelift. We are planning on making it live sometime this week, while in the meantime making sure there are no bugs we have to squash. If you’d like to preview the new design right now, just visit http://s.soshiku.com. You can log in and use it just like the regular Soshiku site, except be aware that the profile pictures do not...
September 2009
1 post
AcceptEdge →
AcceptEdge is a cool new startup that launched today to help find the right college for you.
August 2009
3 posts
Updated feature: Get email updates for discussions
We’ve just made it easier to receive email updates for discussions that are important to you. If you want to receive an email whenever someone adds a message to a discussion, just go to that assignment’s page and check “Get email updates” under the discussion section.
People have been able to get email updates for quite some time now, but it only worked if someone left a...
The email problem has been fixed. We’re sorry for the inconvenience!
We have just discovered a problem in which no email is being sent at all. We are working to fix this ASAP.
June 2009
2 posts
Scheduled Downtime
There will be scheduled downtime tonight at 12 AM PST. The downtime should only last a few minutes.
Ding. Time's up!
We have now completely switched over to our new SMS service. Thanks everyone for being such good sports about updating your info!
May 2009
6 posts
Reminder: you have two weeks left to update your phone number on Soshiku before it’s gone forevaaaaah! Please refer to this post for more info.
Important notice to everyone who uses their phone...
We have a very important notice to everyone who uses their phone with Soshiku. Starting immediately, we are changing the way Soshiku handles text messaging. If you have already verified your phone number, please go to your profile and verify it again.
You have 30 days to change over (until June 12, 2009). If you have any assignments right now that will notify you via SMS, you’ll still get...
Awesome article about Soshiku on The How-To Geek →
You don't have to be a student to utilize... →
Soshiku is now on twitter! →
April 2009
2 posts
Find your partners easier with People Search
When you visit your partners page, you’ll now notice a form titled “People Search” which allows you to search everyone on Soshiku. Now you can easily find potential partners in the Soshikusphere. Can we keep using that word? :)
10,000 users later...
Can you believe it? Soshiku just recently hit 10,000 users (we’re also nearing 50,000 assignments). Ten thousand users in a six-month time span may seem miniscule, especially compared to more popular startups, but to me this is a truly wonderful milestone. I had no idea Soshiku would become as popular as it is today, and it seems like just the beginning.
I thought it’d be fun to share...
March 2009
3 posts
Mobile notes and tasks out of beta
Have a good weekend? We sure did, and we’re back with another update. A while ago we announced a new feature that let you add notes and tasks to your assignments via email or text messaging, but it was experimental and prone to bugs.
Today, we bring that functionality out of beta. It’s now more usable and reliable, and known bugs have been squashed. The help page has also been...
Search updates
Hi everyone! The search functionality of Soshiku has just been updated with a couple of things.
Firstly, Soshiku now searches all of your notes! We never realized how important searching your notes would be, until a fellow Soshiku user suggested it on UserVoice. Thanks!
And secondly, Soshiku can now search not only your attachments, but also your partners’ files that have been attached to...
“It’s snowing.”
– A text message reply to their verification code. It’s supposed to snow here next week. Brr! Thanks for the chuckle!
December 2008
3 posts
"Partners only" assignments now shown in your...
Happy Holidays!
There hasn’t really been a good way to share assignments themselves with your partners (so they know how to get to them), until now.
Tonight we rolled about a cool, subtle new feature that will greatly help users. All of your assignments with the access of “partners only” are now shown in your activity feed, but they are only visible to your partners, so...
Soshiku = a reason for cell phones in school →
November 2008
7 posts
Let your voice be heard with UserVoice
It’s now easier than ever to submit a feature request or a bug report with UserVoice.
There’s now a feedback tab located to the left of every page which brings you to Soshiku’s UserVoice page. You can anonymously submit a feature request or a bug, and you can also vote on other suggestions if you like them!
We hope adding UserVoice to Soshiku will let you speak your mind and to...
New: Add notes and tasks from your phone
Now you can add notes and tasks to your assignments from your phone (email too!). Just text add@soshiku.com with the query (for example) “T world history@ Read pages 35-50” to add the task “Read pages 35-50” to your assignment “World History.” For notes, just use N instead of T.
Read more about it here!
Please keep in mind that this feature is experimental, so...
T-Mobile issue resolved
Some users with T-Mobile trying to add assignments via SMS might have experienced an issue where it wouldn’t add their assignments because “no user was found with that phone number.” This has just been fixed, so now it works 100%.
Also, another bug has been squashed where an error occurred while going directly to the tasks page (http://soshiku.com/tasks).
My apologies to those...
"I'm done with you."
Now you can archive your courses. For when you want to delete a course, but not really! Read more about it here.
Now with default notification options!
Can you believe it? We just made Soshiku a lot more awesome by implementing our #1 requested feature.
You can now set default notification options inside your preferences, so they automatically get applied to any assignment you add. Yes, even assignments added from your email or your phone.
Enabling default notifications is extremely easy. You can read more about it here.
Happy Soshikuing!
October 2008
5 posts
I agree, geeksugar; it is pretty awesome to say. →
Soshiku goes gradeless
People logging into Soshiku today might notice some changes. After serious consideration and long thought, it has been decided to completely remove grades from Soshiku. It was more of a problem than it was a feature.
The decision was made because 1) Too many users have mentioned that since they don’t get their grades instantly, their assignments would be wasting space in the “Overdue...