Monday, April 13, 2009

Introducing: A chat buddy that remembers your note

On April 12th, talk@mayafile.com came into existence. It is an infant, but carries a big brain!

Make talk@mayafile.com your Google Talk buddy to get started. It may take a few minutes before it appears online in your friends' list.

It remembers what you tell it to, so you can retrieve it later.

Example:

 me:  /store google office phone 650-253-1000
 talk:  I have stored your note.
 me:  /find phone
 talk:  3 notes found.
alice phone 415-912-6730
google office phone 650-253-1548
mom's phone number 231-900-1223

Do tell me your experiences and the stuff you would like this little chat buddy to do for you.

Posted by at 12:22 AM

4 comments:

  1. This is an interesting turn of thought. I am excited to think about this.

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  3. How can I see what I store in there? After storing a lot of notes, I might not be able to come up with a good search term to find or narrow down my search results. Sometimes I might not know what I am searching for - in which case I want to browse and find the target note based on seemingly non-relevant information, such as what other notes I remember typing around the target note.

    Have you considered an option of sending notes to gmail so that I can just use gmails search and browse capabilities if I wish. Or better yet store the data in gmail and when a user searches for data, search in gmail notes - instead of maintaining your own database.

    I also dont like the fact that I cannot see what data I am storing - if I wish to delete such data later.

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  4. Bodi:

    Today, if you type '/find' without any query, it will display the most recent notes you made. Soon you'll be able to ask it to continue showing more results. That'll be one, albeit brute, way of browsing everything you have stored.

    A few others have asked that they want to search for notes by times of their creation. That will be a less brute way to search for notes you don't remember. What do you think?

    One of the things you said, "... find the target note based on seemingly non-relevant information, such as what other notes I remember typing around the target note" is very interesting. Can you sketch out how you visualize it?

    Being able to email notes is a good idea.

    Deleting notes is something that is definitely going to be in there pretty (pretty) soon.

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