Friday, November 8, 2013
Easy way to keep a journal (you are already doing it!)
Heard about this in March at a conference. Heard about it again in October at another conference. Finally went to check it out. Awesome.
First of all, as a web design snob, I must say that this site has the best user-interface ever. Super easy and clean. The idea behind the site is simple, create cause and effect recipes, so one event triggers another. I decided to use it for purposes of journal keeping. You see, with emails, FB posts, and blog posts, I am already recording my thoughts, opinions, and experiences. So, I created four recipes to help me catalog these into journals:
1. Whenever I publish a blog post, FB automatically updates my status with a link to the post;
2. Whenever I publish a blog post, the post is automatically added to the end of a specified document in Google Drive (there's my journal #1);
3. Whenever I update my status in FB, Google Drive automatically adds this status to the end of a (different) specified document (there's my journal #2);
4. Whenever I star an email in gmail, the text of that email is automatically added to the end of a specified document in Google Drive (there's my journal #3).
I still need to go back and cut and past all my old blog posts because I eventually want to make hard copies, but from this point forward my journal is being auto-populated with content that I am creating anyway.
Love it!
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