Tip: I use Google Reader a lot, and I'm lazy to select, copy and then paste on Evernote. So I just click on Email link in GReader and send the entire article/item to my Evernote email, then the article is pasted on my Evernote. It add two extra blue boxes, but no big deal. You can edit it later.
This is almost how I use "like" on FF now, but I have it automated. Every day I have a feed that pulls my daily posts and comments/likes into Evernote. Then if I ever need to remember that thing I liked I can just look it up in Evernote search. Easier than trying to find it again on FF, especially with the 8-page limit.
- Lindsay
Leandro, I created a FeedBurner feed out of my post feed and another one out of my comments/likes feed. I set up the FeedBurner account to offer the email subscription option and then I subscribed to it with my personal email account (GMail). Then I set up filters in GMail to forward the emails to my Evernote email account. Wish I could skip that step but you have to confirm the FeedBurner email subscription. Works fine. I get two new notes every day with 24 hours worth of my activity.
- Lindsay
Lindsay, you can skip that step. If you subscribe with your Evernote email address, FeedBurner should send the confirmation email straight to Evernote. You can then follow the confirmation link in your new note. Thats how I've done it. Hope that helps :-)
- David Adam
Oh, awesome, David! I never thought of that!
- Lindsay
Cool, I just set it up your way, David. That actually opens up a lot of other interesting possibilities... I'm going to redirect some of the news letters and notifications I get to that address and also have my DailyLit.com subscriptions sent there. I'm excited!
- Lindsay
Despite being a newbie Evernote-ster (I spent time during a holiday adapting my info-collecting habits to it), I had started doing this. Works great.
- Rex Hammock
Many people, even Google Reader users, do not appreciate the full power of Google Reader. It is my central command post for managing a wide variety of information -- anything that can be channeled as feeds.
- Sean McBride
I've found that GR doesn't handle feeds for comments on individual blog entries too well -- it skips some and displays them out of order.
- Mitch Wagner
I've been doing this for a few weeks - it works fine! Great tip!
- Bill Sodeman
One thing I have noticed is that in any ovie, v show, etc where anything odd happens, the English are always portrayed as standing in place saying something like "This can't be happening" or some stupid thing like that, when it clearly IS happening. Is this some sort of national trait? I like to think that if, say, the dead rise and turn on the living, I would fight back + run to safety FIRST and worry about the ontological implications after.
- Neal "thePuck" Jansons
Here Neal, you dropped an "m" and a "t" :)
- Richard Walker
well, it's almost a month later but anyway in Canada the top three are currently Sims 3, StoneLoops and StickWars
- Richard Akerman
My cousin dl'ed the Moron Test and tried to get me to take it. I told him he'd already failed because he was a moron for buying it in the first place. He was unamused. I wasn't.
- Hookuh Tinypants
To be fair, he's kind of a tool, so it's less a reflection of the app and more a reflection of how much I want to throw him off the nearest high-rise.
- Hookuh Tinypants
I notice that the U.S. is no longer a nation of morons -- for the last few days, "The Sims 3" is #1, so we're now a nation of replicants.
- Stephen Mack
got this after my first intelligent use of ff filtered search. populist USA likes to feign ignorance and UK likes to superficial awareness
- Lane Rapp
Louis: I opened your post up and will have to read it later when FriendFeed slows down a bit. I just don't have time to jump off this tab and read an entire blog post. :)
- Lou Paglia
@Mitch: Mouseover on the timestamp for a post to see a new improved permalink.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Mitch; you alread have permalinking. Click the date (11 minutes ago). That's the permalink.
- Robert Scoble
1) The permalink has /louisgray/ in it, great for searching. 2) The permalink is wordier like a good SEO-optimized URL should be.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
There needs to be a keyboard shortcut for pause as well.
- Justin Doub
I'm with Justin - hotkey for pause would be great.
- Joel Bennett
Good list, Louis. Seconding the wish for pause hotkey.
- Kate
But I have to say: direct-message from "anyone" plus direct-message emails ... sounds like a spammers wet-dream. I already have plenty of places where I can get direct messages from strangers (including, believe it or not, by email). All of them have (and need) heavily fortified anti-spam barricades ... why would you want another such here?
- Joel Bennett
All good suggestions - A Specially Big vote for #10 !!
- Ahsan Ali
The realtime UI is a great step forward but could make use of some subtle improvements by way of giving the user better visual about what is updating and when. Perhaps use fade-ins or color changes, to make the realtime-ness smoother.
- Ryan Stanley
Cool list Louis! I'll be reading this later... about to dash out for a PMI board meeting... l8r
- Susan Beebe
Would there be any value in permalinking comments or would this simply be bloat?
- bendi
@bendi; could be interesting, sometimes comments are as or more interesting that the initiating entry. it is always a toss up of commenting on an entry or wondering if your comment on that particular entry is "entry worth" itself
- Lou Paglia
I hope the sharing links through the mainfeed, just like some other features, just didn't make it in the beta version yet...
- Sanne Buurma