Twitter’s Ev thinks Twitter can help you overcome Information Overload.
That’s Sillicon Valley thinking. Information "overload" is a Sillicon Valley type of problem. Such problems are mostly a matter of choice, exist in a very small sub-culture — and have virtually no baring on the real lives of normal people. …
Finding back items in Evernote is usually as simple as typing something, anything, into the search box and seeing the results appear as you type.
For slightly deeper data digging some of us might be tagging our notes and use the [tag:] query to get to very specific notes.
The problem begins when you need that note with that Word document attached to it. Or when you want to pull all your notes with .ppt attachments.
As a data processor I just had to switch to TweetDeck. The built-in Twitscoop view is a constant finger on the pulse of the community’s conversation; I “see” a lot of news and events approaching this way before they hit the news.
Another great feature is built-in persistent searches. You can add searches the Tweets of which will appear in their own column.
A “drawback” — one is never satisfied — is that TweetDeck enforces a 10 column maximum. You’ll quickly run out of columns to add, having to delete a previous search to start to monitor a new topic.
Searches in TweetDeck are powered by search.twitter.com (the previous Summize).
The default operator applied is AND: evernote chrome.
But Twitter search recognizes the OR operator: economy OR coffee.
This gives you the ability to combine or collapse a number of searches into one and the same column, giving you “virtual unlimited columns” in TweetDeck.
Good candidates are searches which during most 48 hour periods, the timeframe TweetDeck considers, produce limited results. For example, I combine the streams for knowledge management and mindmapping.
Topics can be more thoroughly covered this way as well. Hot is The Economy at the moment but simply searching economy gives you a restricted view. economy OR recession OR “wall street” OR “credit crunch” is much wider, covers more ground.