Hacking Twitter: How to Capture Everything, from Anywhere

Have you taken a look at Jott.com yet? I just signed up yesterday and have been fairly impressed so far. You sign up, they give you a phone number to call. You call that phone number, it recognizes you as you and you leave a message for yourself. You’re then sent that message as text with your voice recording attached. You can also specify someone else to send that message to as you’re leaving it. I find it much handier than sending myself a text message or email, especially when on the move.

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I’ve heard of Twitter before, but your post today made me decide to take the plunge. The ability to leave notes for myself via SMS is very handy.

My only complaint is the site is very very slow. Hopefully it’s just a problem with overloads and they’re working on it. But this thing is really dog slow . . . my RSS feed won’t even load.

However, thanks for the tip — I can’t wait to use this to capture better!

Finally – I can use Twitter without being ashamed…

Ummm ever heard of the memo function on your phone or handheld? Mine can capture up to 70 seconds of notes – and uses no minutes. Welcome to the 21st century.

@joe

I’m not saying that people should throw their pen and paper into the garbage in favor of this method – just that an alternative exists.

And 70 seconds would be considered by many (including myself) to be an insufficient amount of time to capture everything on a particularly idea-heavy day.

Just an aside – I find your “welcome to the 21st century” comment to be hilarious – because this article is about using a web application to capture you’re ideas – pretty sure cell phones and text messages existed before twitter.

Have a nice day.

All of these online systems are no good because they don’t meet my #1 criteria. And that is secure messaging. I don’t want any system to handle my personal and work messages. Sure,this probably works fine for those of us using it only for personal productivity, but how many of us work for companies where it’s a no-no to provide sensitive data out to the internet.

My personal setup is: Outlook (because I have to), Excel (to track all my Lists and Next Actions, etc.), a Voice Recorder (combined with Dragon Naturally Speaking it’s pretty cool), hPDA (my own rollabind bound version that just holds 3×5 cards).

I can handle any throught anywhere anytime with these “inboxes”. Yes, there is a lot to deal with, but at the end of the day, one still has to fire up a browser, etc. to grab all their “inboxes” and manage things properly.

Call me crazy, but this has been working for 2 straight months flawlessly. I’m still honing it and learning as I’m going. I’m not lucky enough to have a one-dimensional life where I can rely on just one tool. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.

@Joe

Bad day?

I used to use the voice recorder function too, the problem for me is that voice messages of any kind don’t do me a lot of good, because I can’t read them and process them in the same way I process everything else.

Hence the Jott.com for notes to myself, it comes into my email for me to process just like every other message.

I also started using SimulScribe that converts voicemail to text for both my cell phone and work phone. So now, for me, everything comes into my inbox and can be processed sequentially from my one inbox. I don’t have three or four or five places to check and make sure I’m up to date.

Maybe I’m dense, but I still don’t see the point. What does Twitter do in your hypothetical situation that a regular ol’ email account cannot? Couldn’t you set up a filter that send items with “Subject: Note to self” to a “Self-generated information” folder/label? Or couldn’t you just leave a voice message on your answering machine?

Sorry, but I don’t see how this is anything more than another bucket to empty, and it’s not a vast improvement over my current collection of buckets.

I think Jotter works better for this than Twitter. http://toddstanfield.com/jott-another-tool-in-my-gtd-toolbox.htm

Why not simply save a message into the draft folder on your cell? RAZR should have plenty of space onboard and it’d save you money you spent on sending your message to twitter. That same folder can be hacked into a daily to-do list if need be (my Motorola doesn’t have a to-do list). The cells calendar is nothing more than a date specific to-do list with a reminder – you could write your idea in it and be reminded of it by the cell in the evening. Just my 0,02 €

Thanks for the hint, I was playing with the twitter api and created a script to convert my twits to sms (sent from my home computer) to use as an reminder service (using twitter’s timer) for my GTD tasks, never ocurred to me using the same mechanism to transfer my twitts to my home’s outlook inbox for processing later.

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I am a newbie still not very well aware of aspects of Twitter. Does it help in anything else apart from networking and following people on Twitter.

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