Monday, December 7, 2009

Using ubernote to communicate from within and out of google wave

Using note taking applications like ubernotes to email from within and out of google wave

Communicating with people who do not have google wave account from within wave becomes an important issue at times. While there are a few implementations of emailing options from within Wave (both receiving and sendng emails from within Wave), these options are either at the stage of being developed and not in a stage of fully implemented or not working well. I have used emaily-wave (emaily-wave.appspot.com, or more details here

http://emaily.dlux.hu/

Another implementation is mail to wave robot.

However, it seems to me that the idea is to see that emails and waves remain separate. I'd use emails for my private conversations but would use wave for projects and collaborations. I'd also like to read all my other information (eg search results and search bot findings, interesting blog posts, wiki posts that come to me by RSS, interesting RSS feeds, anything else that I find on the wave but not easily retrievable or forget otherwise) on wave. As well as that, I'd like to be able to email this stuff from within wave.

I think using note taking gadgets within wave may addess this problem to some extent. I have used ubernote gadget (here's their gadget url for your use,

http://www.ubernote.com/webnote/webtools/gadgets/ubergadget.xml

Which if you can add as a gadget as URL to any blip will let you use the ubernote from within wave. You need to register with ubernote which is free (http://www.ubernote.com)

Apparently they have unlimited note storage at the time of writing this, so it helps.

How to email stuff from blips to someone outside wave using ubernote

For quick emailing any interesting information from a blip to someone outside of wave, the steps might be as follows:

1) install the ubernote gadget (one needs to have a username and password set up for ubernote or pre registration) from the gadget xml

2) start a new note and copy paste the contents of the blip into the new note and save it

3) double click the newly created note and click on the full edit button

4) In the full edit mode (which will be a new tab), expand the message or add attachments, etc and send out the note by attaching others emails as shares

How to receive emails as ubernote notes and create blips

Email any content that you think important to your ubernote assigned emaiil address and it will show up in the blip containing the ubernote.

There are a few issues around it though, like:

Lessons for using ubernote

1) Forward only text messages if forwarding from emails (do not forward websites or wikis)

2) check with google reader forwards

3) With webpages even with password protection, it works well

But these are minor issues compared to their real utility value.

I'd be interested to learn from you of other note taking applications and other approaches to communicate and integrate information from within Wave and outside. 


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