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Zoho has taken the first steps toward integrating the various applications in the online office suite into a single cohesive whole. [Zoho Start][1], as the new integrated setup is known, creates a common page from which you can easily access all your Zoho apps.
Previously with Zoho if you wanted to move from Writer to Notebook or any other app, you needed to head to a different URL, but Zoho Start lets you get at everything from a single page.
By default Zoho Start opens with a 'My Documents' tab listing all the files you've uploaded or created with Zoho -- documents, spreadsheets and presentations. You can organize these by folder, tag share and export them, all the features of most Zoho apps in one centralized interface.
On the far right side of the page is a drop down menu that allows you to open the various Zoho apps in new tabs. The right hand portion of the page can be filled up with horizontal tabs for the various Zoho apps, making it easy to move between apps, documents and even your contacts list without ever opening a new URL.
From what I can tell the apps are loaded into the page via an iFrame.
Zoho Start essentially encapsulates what savvy users probably already did with browser tabs -- that is, open the apps they needed, one per tab. The only thing missing in the new setup are some keyboard shortcuts for jumping between tabs.
It would also be nice if there were an option to have Zoho Start remember which tabs you had open, which doesn't seem to be possible at the moment.
[1]: http://start.zoho.com/
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