Adding complex notes using notepad.cc
shai.inbal says:
Hi there,
For a long time I've been using RTM for managing more complex tasks & projects. For example: writing an article citing multiple websites (I'm a journalist), or writing phone numbers to call, addresses to go, etc.
I did this with the notes function. Problem is, it's not meant to use for detailed info, but rather few lines of text.
The solution: notepad.cc. This site is pretty useful for jotting down simple notes. Every time you enter the site, it gives you a new note with a unique address. You can write everything down - like any text file.
So what I do is enter the site, get a new note, write everything I need in it & paste the URL of the note into the URL field of a task. Later, I can enter the note by clicking on the URL & edit it, share it & even collaborate (others can write in the txt file too). What's also great, is that I have an option to lock a note in a password.
Best of all, notepadd.cc is free.
Also, while on RTM on the desktop there's an icon indicating about a note, in the iPhone there isn't (yet?), so in the title of the note I attach a "URL" postfix, so I'd remember I have one, For example: "Write a blog post - URL", where in the URL there's an address of a notepad.cc note, containing ideas & thoughts about the upcoming blog post that would help me with my writing.
For a long time I've been using RTM for managing more complex tasks & projects. For example: writing an article citing multiple websites (I'm a journalist), or writing phone numbers to call, addresses to go, etc.
I did this with the notes function. Problem is, it's not meant to use for detailed info, but rather few lines of text.
The solution: notepad.cc. This site is pretty useful for jotting down simple notes. Every time you enter the site, it gives you a new note with a unique address. You can write everything down - like any text file.
So what I do is enter the site, get a new note, write everything I need in it & paste the URL of the note into the URL field of a task. Later, I can enter the note by clicking on the URL & edit it, share it & even collaborate (others can write in the txt file too). What's also great, is that I have an option to lock a note in a password.
Best of all, notepadd.cc is free.
Also, while on RTM on the desktop there's an icon indicating about a note, in the iPhone there isn't (yet?), so in the title of the note I attach a "URL" postfix, so I'd remember I have one, For example: "Write a blog post - URL", where in the URL there's an address of a notepad.cc note, containing ideas & thoughts about the upcoming blog post that would help me with my writing.
techlifeweb says:
This is cool. I hadn't seen notepadd.cc before.
You could also combine this with the Add to RTM bookmarklet in your browser for those times you might be in a hurry.
In that scenario, you would go to notepad.cc and start writing your notes then click Add to RTM. This would give you a RTM task with the note.cc url in its title but at least you would have captured it quickly.
It would be cool if the Add to RTM button also captured the URL as a URL but it doesn't (at least not the one I use).
You could also combine this with the Add to RTM bookmarklet in your browser for those times you might be in a hurry.
In that scenario, you would go to notepad.cc and start writing your notes then click Add to RTM. This would give you a RTM task with the note.cc url in its title but at least you would have captured it quickly.
It would be cool if the Add to RTM button also captured the URL as a URL but it doesn't (at least not the one I use).
shai.inbal says:
Thanks! I'll try it.
But yeah, no option to add the URL as a url parameter, as far as I can see.
But yeah, no option to add the URL as a url parameter, as far as I can see.
kanntara says:
@shai.inbal
Here is the java-code you can replace your bookmark-let with that will auto-fill the URL and Name sections (name becomes the title of the web page).
You can update the name to add "URL " to it. It could also be done automatically as well, but I didn't want to update the code as you might not always want it on the bookmarklet but let me know.
Here is the java-code you can replace your bookmark-let with that will auto-fill the URL and Name sections (name becomes the title of the web page).
You can update the name to add "URL " to it. It could also be done automatically as well, but I didn't want to update the code as you might not always want it on the bookmarklet but let me know.
techlifeweb says:
kanntara,
Thanks. I found that code or similar on another forum (I think it might have been from you too). Works great.
Thanks. I found that code or similar on another forum (I think it might have been from you too). Works great.
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