We know your content is unique and the overview that Podio provides should reflect this. Today, I’m very proud to introduce you to our newest feature: customizable badge layout – and very shortly, badge layout in our iOS app.

It’s always a pleasure to ship something that’s one of the most highly requested features in our Help Centre, but especially when it gives everyone even more potential to tailor Podio to their unique processes.

Let me give you a few examples:

You work on projects that require some design work – store them in a Designs app and customise the app’s badge layout to show the image of the design, a progress bar, and who’s working on it. This will make it really easy to scan through all your ongoing design jobs and determine which designs need some extra work.

Or think about your deliverables. You can show the title or the description of what needs to be done very prominently and add the due date and person working on it in two other areas of the badge.

It’s also a nice way of visualizing your sales pipeline. Show the name of the lead, the potential deal value, the deal’s status and a progress bar – you’ll then immediately get a good overview of the quality of your sales pipeline.

Go ahead and try it, you can tailor the face of every app to suit you.

How it works

To customize the content show in your badges, go to the app menu by clicking the wrench icon and choose Layout options. The badge consists of five different areas. For each area you can choose which field from your app’s template you want to display.

Select None in one field and we will hide this area and make your badge smaller. Only want to see an image and the title of an item? Set the other fields to None to focus only on what’s relevant to you.

Want to take these cool new badges with you? No problem, the badge layout will also be available in the next version of the Podio app for iOS – available in the App Store in the next few days.

What’s next

We have more improvements in the pipeline for the next few months, that will make Podio more powerful yet easier to understand and handle. It’s just the start of a great journey for 2015. Stay tuned to learn more and follow us along the way.