Hiveminder Loves You! (And now you can use Twitter and SMS with Hiveminder) by Shawn M Moore on 2008-02-14 13:06:51 (permalink)

There's nothing romantic about a gift of todo lists. There. We said it. But we wanted to offer you a little something to show you how much we love you. For one day only, use the coupon code HIVEMINDERLOVE to get 25% off of a year of Hiveminder Pro. Just visit:

https://hiveminder.com/account/upgrade

But, we're not writing just to tell you how much we love you. We have another present for you today. We've been spending an awful lot of time using Twitter to broadcast what we're up to. And we've spent enough time leaving ourselves memos by Twitter that we decided it was time to do something.

Today we're launching Hiveminder Integration for Twitter. If you're eager to get going, you can get started right now by visiting:

http://hiveminder.com/prefs/twitter

Using Hiveminder by Twitter works a lot like our IM and Jabber interfaces with a few important differences to take advantages of everything Twitter has to offer.

Twitter lets you send private messages using the "d" command; to address messages straight to Hiveminder, just prefix them with "d hmtasks". You can use any of the Hiveminder IM commands to work with your existing tasks.

To create your first task from Twitter, just tweet "d hmtasks call my mom tonight". Hiveminder will create the task and then tweet you back with the task id.

If you want to do a bit more, just tweet "d hmtasks help" to find out how.

One of the coolest things about Twitter is the ability to broadcast your thoughts and status to all your friends. Now you can add things to your todo list and let your friends know what you're up to at the same time. Just include "@hmtasks" somewhere in your tweet and Hiveminder will take care of the rest. And your friends might just help pressure you into getting stuff done ;)

I've saved the best for last. Through Twitter, you can now update Hiveminder by SMS. In the US, just text your tweets to 40404. Outside the US, you'll want to refer to Twitter's SMS help.