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Every feature, explained properly — how it works, why it's built that way, and how organizations across Bangladesh put it to work.

Communication

Notice board vs broadcast: when to use which

Broadcast what must interrupt (deadlines, urgent changes); post to the notice board what must persist (schedules, circulars, standing rules). Broadcasts push to

Communication

Static groups vs filter audiences: which should you use?

Use filter audiences for anything defined by attributes (“Dhaka branch”, “batch 2015”) because they update themselves; use static groups only for genuinely hand

Communication

Scheduled broadcasts: write now, send at 9 AM

Compose the message, pick a date and time, press Schedule — Jogajog dispatches it automatically. Announcements land when attention is highest instead of when…

Communication

How do you prove an announcement was actually read?

Mark the broadcast “requires acknowledgment”. Members must tap read-and-understood, the report shows delivered → read → acknowledged per person, reminders chase

Directory

From paper khata to living directory: a digitization path

Type the khata into any spreadsheet — that's the whole prerequisite. Jogajog's import wizard normalizes phones, flags duplicates and preserves Bangla names, and

Directory

How the app works offline and on weak networks

Recently viewed people stay available offline, the app degrades gracefully when the connection drops, and everything resynchronizes silently on recovery — built

Directory

The English-only interface decision, explained honestly

Jogajog's interface is English by deliberate decision, while member data is fully Bengali-capable and search is transliteration-tolerant. Organizations get glob

Directory

One directory or many? Handling multi-concern organizations

Model sister concerns as top-level units inside one organization when people overlap, or run separate organizations when they truly don't. The unit tree handles

Directory

What happens to a member’s data when they leave the organization?

Admins trash the record — it vanishes from the directory but remains restorable, preserving history and preventing accidental data loss. Permanent removal stays

Directory

Why unit heads should be visible first in every member list

Because most lookups are really “who do I ask?”. Jogajog surfaces flagged unit heads at the top of their unit's member list, turning the…

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