Use TwitterNotes for Quick Reminders
October 8th, 2007 (11:00am) Mike Gunderloy 8 Comments
We’ve looked at online note-taking applications in the past. Most of our favorite applications in this space are suitable for managing large amounts of unstructured information - the sort of notes you might be taking to write a thesis, for example. But what about the “remember to change the oil” level of notes? New service TwitterNotes lets you leverage your existing Twitter membership to track and manage quick notes to yourself.
The service is simplicity itself: you just sign in with your existing Twitter username and password, and the automated TNotes account starts following your tweets. Any time you start a tweet with a plus sign, a copy gets snarfed into your TwitterNotes account as a note. A simple convention lets you add tags to notes. If you send a direct message to the TNotes account, it will be a private note that doesn’t show up where anyone else can read it.
Within TwitterNotes, you can read, edit, and delete notes, as well as look them up by tag. There’s also a TwitterNotes API that lets you get them out via RSS, for further use in other mashups and services. It’s a nice idea, and it would be even nicer to see other lightweight services like this take advantage of Twitter’s own open API.
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James says: October 8th, 2007 11:31am
I tried this a while back, and didn’t really understand the point of the Twitter integration. Maybe it makes more sense for hardcore Twitterati who spend more time in it than I do, but for me it was just an added layer of confusion.
I’m just using notesphere now, and have been quite happy with it.
Martin Labuschin says: October 8th, 2007 2:03pm
i use twitter a time in thirty minutes and i think this is a cool mashup!
Marshall Kirkpatrick says: October 8th, 2007 4:56pm
Would be invaluable if I could get my own notes by RSS - but since I can’t then not sure I’ll use this. Bummer. What’s up with that??
Michelle says: October 9th, 2007 9:15am
I think it’s a neat idea, and I’m playing with it in Twitter. I’d like to use it as sort of an easier live blog during a conference session. However, I can’t figure out how to re-purpose the RSS feed, which I can access, for my blog since the RSS is authenticated. I appreciate the authentication but hmmm … Am thinking.
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DefogMyBlog says: December 1st, 2007 3:12pm
I’m experimenting with this for a blog post. My initial reaction is that I prefer my Spinvox memo facility. I just dial a number, speak my message and an email arrives in my account.
andrew says: January 31st, 2008 4:51am
Could you please provide with an complete example on how i can use private notes/tag or only tag
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