Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Some more musings to manage my communications through wave

Following this morning's try with ubernote, here are some more thoughts on using note taking applications and their sharing functionalities to use for collaboration among partners and colleagues.
While email still remains the primary media for

* sharing thoughts and streaming them to wave and blogs (as I have done here)
* sharing ideas and files on one to one
For larger group collaborations, I think I will be inclined to use wave more often.
One area where Wave can be very useful is in replacing my watched groups. This is the plan:

1) Create a separate email account and subscribe to the groups through that email
2) Configure that email to receive the group mails in digest mode that gets delivered once a day to that email address
3) Further configure that email to divert all digest emails to the preferred note taking email address
4) The digest mails show up as a note in the note taking app gadget
5) From here, two things - copy and paste some of the notes as appropriate to waves and share with the world, and with friends
5b) open the note in full mode in a separate tab and comment if necessary to the group or to specific individuals or archive in blogs so that the ideas do not get lost

I guess the benefits of such an approach is archiving of important knowledge base that does not get lost in the vapor of internet yet not clogging of my mailbox. Not that with seven gigs of space available I should worry too much about space in my mailbox, but it's always good to be clean and run an inbox zero attitude.

I think it's not a bad idea to see all the group mails in one stream of mails all coming to one place from where I can then redirect as needed.

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