Send Yourself Reminders With Twitter Timer
May 5th, 2008 (11:00am) Scott Blitstein 7 Comments
Like many of my fellow Web Workers, I look to Twitter as a means to communicate and stay connected with others. Recently though, I have also started looking at ways it can help me with my productivity.
That search led me to the Twitter Timer, a super handy bot that provides the virtual pat on the shoulder I need to remember to perform various tasks throughout the day. It’s super easy to use, just befriend the timer and then send it a direct message with the time delay and your details. When the time passes, it will tweet you back your info.
It’s free to use although a Twitter account is obviously required.
How do you use Twitter to be more productive?
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eltejano says: May 5th, 2008 11:38am
why don’t you just use Sandy (http://iwantsandy.com/ ) and then follow her on twitter and enable your mobile updates?
Scott Blitstein says: May 5th, 2008 12:39pm
I guess it would have the same end result but it would require me to use yet another service as an intermediary. Now I make the request and get the update all in the same place using just the one interface.
Thanks
SB
Yet Another Cool Twitter Tool: Twitter Timer : East Coast Blogging says: May 5th, 2008 6:40pm
[...] But this one I found pretty cool. It is your very own Twitter timer. Simply follow timer and your all set. [...]
Ross Goodman says: May 6th, 2008 9:23am
I use Timer for intermittent adhoc type events. For regular events I prefer to use Remember The Milk and get it to send me tweets when tasks are due.
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Scott Blitstein says: May 6th, 2008 12:48pm
Good point Ross. I use Toodledo for heavy duty task management and it also integrates well with Twitter for entering and reminding me of tasks, but Timer works great for those one off quick reminders I need.
Thanks for comments,
SB
Sasha Kovaliov says: May 7th, 2008 7:48am
imified.com works fine in all the IMs - faster than twitter.
Janko Roettgers says: May 8th, 2008 12:30pm
I use Sandy via Twitter as well. It’s great because it integrates with iCal/ Outlook and even sends SMS if you need a little extra reminder.