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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