Use Evernote With TweetDeck For Better Twitter Memory
Twitter organizers like TweetDeck can bring the good, actually helpful messages forward, but remembering and utilising them is up to you—whether you email tweets to yourself, add a “star” or bookmark them. One blogger’s solution: Evernote’s email capabilities.
Whether on the desktop or the previously mentioned, just-released iPhone client, TweetDeck (along with a handful of other Twitter clients) lets you email individual updates using your native email client. If you’ve signed up for Evernote’s universal capture system, you’ve been provided with a custom email address you can send items to for safekeeping in the cloud. East Coast Blogging suggests using that email address with Twitter clients takes items that can be easy to lose and puts them in your RSS reader, your Evernote desktop or phone client, and makes them available in a lot of different streams.
How do you hold onto of-the-moment Twitter items you’d like to act on later? Tell us your tips in the comments.
TweetDeck and Evernote, a Match Made in Heaven [East Cost Blogging via Steve Rubel]
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Couldn't you also claim your Twitter feed on Feedburner and have it email updates to your Evernote account automatically?
sumocat
iPhone tweetdeck???
Seriously, while the desktop version of tweetdeck is really, really nice, the iPhone version leaves a lot to be desired. First, it was the horrible instability of the 1.0 release. Then they fixed that. Now, it's iPhone tweetdeck losing (not displaying) tweets (I think this existed in 1.0, too). You can often see that by quitting and restarting tweetdeck; recent tweets often won't be displayed any more. Deleting and recreating the column makes the lost tweets reappear, but that's a pretty ugly workaround.
Frankly, unless you can't afford the $5 for one of the other twitter apps, I'd strongly recommend avoiding iPhone tweetdeck for now. (And, I'd like to emphasize that this applies only to the iPhone version -- the desktop version is great.) On the iPhone, I've used tweetdeck, twitterfon, twittelator, and tweetie. Except for tweetdeck, they all seem decent. I happen to prefer tweetie, as it seems to have the most features and a polished UI, although the developers' communications leave a bit to be desired. Also, with tweetie, switching between saved searches is pretty fast, and makes me miss the multi-column features of tweetdeck a lot less.
aj_robins
@theDevilsDue: Really?? Sweet-- thanks for the tip!
Maybe I'm missing something, but isn't that what saving he Tweet is for?
I just added my twitter favorites RSS feed into my Google Reader and labeled it "Read It Later".
@theDevilsDue:
Yep, just retweet to @MyEN once you've linked your Twitter account to your Evernote account. Much easier than moving out of TweetDeck to your e-mail app.
D0rk
You can also send tweets directly to Evernote.
theDevilsDue
Ummm, there is a better and easier way. Evernote directly supports sending tweets to your Evernote account with their @myen account. Here's their blog post about the feature: http://blog.evernote.com/2009/04/14/evernote_twitter/ Once it is set up, you can send any tweet to Evernote by reposting it as a direct message to MyEN (usually by hitting Retweet in your twitter client and adding d myen to the beginning.) I direct message all the tweets I want to remember to @myen, particularly ones about events, or links to lengthy articles that I want to read later. It works like a charm!
ShyamariPiso
@aj_robins: For desktop clients I'm a fan of DestroyTwitter. Nice themes, the ability to make your own right on the site, pop-up notifications if you want them, and it minimizes to the tray. It's all I could ask for.