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Everyday something incredible happens on Twitter: car races, people find new iPhone in a bar (again) or just a simple line about food: folks post a lot. You know.
Sometimes from this flow something can be useful in future. But how to save it? Evernote has a Tweet to Evernote feature wich allows you to send your tweets to Evernote special twitter account. Even if you are a really persistent person next day you are gonna give up sanding each tweet. So we need a simple tool for saving all this blue bird stuff. And the process should be automatic and simple cause you know, we leave in the tech century. And I am wonna to show you how I did this.
A short comment before you continue reading. It’s not a manual, it’s just thoughts so read them and after that use. Ok? Go on!
Who? When? Where? Why?
Long time ago I thought about saving all tweets. Tweets from following companies, from my favorite users and also from people who I usually greeting “Who the Hell are you?” Before that I used a connection between feedbernuer + email, but it did not work well. So, after some searching I found this – ifttt.
Idea is very primitive – ifttt makes links (triggers) between services and transport the information directly from one to another. Sign up on ifttt and create a new trigger between Twitter and Evernote. For one Twitter account you need 3 links, because your tweets, timeline and replies have a different triggers.
Done! Wait, it’s something horrible happened. Each tweet create a separate note! Just imagine 2000 new notes every day! Oh, it’s gonna be crazy. If you use only one notebook so I’ll say institution for persons of unsound mind in you notebook. Nah…
Birds, Elephants and information flow
Information needs a special attitude. It must not disturbe you so it should be separated and organized. Idealy it should be distribute to you in certain time. By the way, Evernote also follow this idea. It collects thoughts and pieces of knowledge and store them just clear your mind.
To separate my own notes from tweets I create another account in Evernote. Cause I use two Twitter accounts I need to make two notebooks for each couple.
After that in ifttt I set up links and the process began. To have access to my tweets I share these two notebooks to my own account so I can search in tweets. Aslo I ca copy a note to my own account and use it. For this you don’t need a premium account all actions can be done in normal one.
I have a tamplet for the message body which appear in note field. Check this:
So I have a very simple and at the same time very flexible system. If I add someone, his or her tweets will immediately save to my Evernote. That’s amazing. And I doesn’t need to think about how it works!
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