Sunday September 19, 2021; 12:46 PM EDT
- Purpose#
- Using Twitter as part of your writing work. #
- The use-case#
- You're out and about, and get an idea that belongs on the to-do list for your latest project. Open Twitter, post a note. When you get back to your desktop the note will already be in a Drummer outline, ready for you to act on it. It doesn't matter what kind of writer you are, whether you write for yourself, as a note-taker or designer for your workgroup, if you write docs, or a blog, novels or Pulitzer-winning news reports. If you are a writer and and a steady user of Twitter, and interested in tools for thought and outliners, this new Drummer feature, tweets.opml, is for you.#
- Getting started, basics#
- Open tweets.opml from the Special files sub-menu of the File menu. #
- When this file is open, Drummer will automatically look for new tweets and organize them in a calendar structure.#
- This is when Drummer does a scan:#
- When you open the file for the first time. #
- When you start or reload Drummer, so reloading is a way to cause a scan. #
- Every five minutes, but not while you're typing. #
- If you want Drummer to not scan, close tweets.opml. #
- It does not have to be the active tab for a scan to take place, another tab can be in front.#
- When there are new tweets, the file icon turns green, as with Instant Outlines. #
- Rules for tweets.opml#
- You can make the tweets.opml outline public and share it. #
- You can edit it, reorganize it, the tweets don't have to stay in the calendar structure. #
- You can copy from tweets.opml to other outlines. #
- You can bookmark tweets, and move them around in tweets.opml and they will still be found. #
- It understands threads, so tweets that are in reply to another tweet, are stored in an outline hierarchy.#
- It downloads your tweets, no one else's. #
- If a tweet has a link, the headline it creates is a link not a tweet. Double-clicking opens the link in the browser.#
- Twitter is now part of outline.land#
- You can now think of Twitter as part of your writing system, because anything you write will automatically be the Drummer system.#
- How to opt out#
- A place to comment#
- Help out by reporting whether it works on your system, either way, I need to know. 😀 #
- Did it work? #