37Signals Relaunches Backpack Organizational Tool

Published: July 25, 2007, 6:36 pm

37Signals relaunched their Backpack service today. The app's back end code was completely rebuilt from scratch, according to Jason Fried, and the service also got a new UI to match some of 37Signals' other recently updated products (such as Basecamp). The design still feels very familiar to any 37Signals app user, however. There are a number of new features in Backpack, but a handful of them really stick out, and those are the ones that I'll focus on in this post. Perhaps the best new feature is that you can now move anything, anywhere on your Backpack page. It used to be that items on your page were mostly fixed, but now every item can be dragged and dropped around the page using AJAX. This makes organizing your pages much easier. You can more easily group related items, or move them around as you add bits or change and update things. Hard to see in this shot, but you can drag items between pages. Extending from the drag and drop functionality, you can now drag items between

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