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Our sincere apologies for the confusion - our launch got jumped 48 hours by a press mixup and we've been working all night to get everything in place as quickly as possible.

Greplin search hasn't changed - it is still availalble as Cue Search - both in our app and on our website. Web access is hard to get to for the next few minutes - right now it's accessible at https://www.cueup.com/login (will be linked from cueup.com momentarily). In the iPhone app, the search functionality has been streamlined and is available as a tab.

We still care about search a lot. It's the foundation of all the new features, and it's critical to the long term goals of our service.

If you encounter any issues, as always, we're quick to respond at support@cueup.com

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Robby, congrats on the new launch-- it looks great!

Zero-click search is really impressive when it works [edit: actually, this is zero-search search: you get results without searching, simply based on context]. I think greplin can make it work with heuristics + usage data over the last few years :-) Showing not just what's next, but context (when, where is it? what emails are related?) makes this really cool-- something that can very quickly form a habit, perhaps.

PS: why show Sunrise and Sunset times?(first screenshot on landing screen) Do people actually search for that? Personally, I don't care-- the day starts when I wake up.

All I can say is - wow. It pulls in a lot more information than I thought it would, which makes this truly useful.

It pulled in an upcoming package delivery I have from Amazon, put in on my cue for the estimated date, and provided a link to the package tracker.

It showed me a friend's upcoming birthday from facebook, and provided a link to his phone number. And in related, it summarized every communication we've had together over email, and showed me his facebook and linkedin summaries.

Wow. This took Greplin's core indexing technology to a whole new level.

About sunrise and sunset: that's a more interesting subject that it sounds like at first. The sunrise and sunset times have a few purposes, mostly unrelated to telling you about the sun. First, they make it clear at a glance that you're looking at a visual representation of a single day's events. It's surprisingly non-obvious how to make a user interface's purpose obvious! Second, they give context to the timing of events by subtly matching them up with the day-night cycle; despite the advent of artificial lighting, our species is still instinctively diurnal, and this is a great source of intuitions about time. Third, they look really nice without being visually confusing or clashing with the color palette.

Oh, and they also tell you when the sun rises and sets. I guess that's cool, too.

Interesting. I've seen a few other apps do this too and always wondered. Well, I think shading the UI might be a better hint, but this is definitely not something I'd thought of before. Thank you.

This is farking brilliant.

However, will we be able to link to an exchange account? All my "cues" are work cues, not in my gmail or gcal.

Also, with the location services - will it alert me when someone I know is near that is in the Cue-cosystem?

+1, work events get into my phone through an Exchange account. This would be wonderfully useful!

In journalism, breaking embargos is considered bad form. Which journalist/blogger/publication is responsible for the "mixup"?

really impressive work, Greplin team. I've moved this app to my home screen already.

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