Datatoy Blog » markers http://blog.datatoy.net Development and feedback blog for datatoy.net tweet visualisation Mon, 10 Aug 2009 13:20:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 en hourly 1 Hiding a collection http://blog.datatoy.net/2009/05/hiding-a-collection/ http://blog.datatoy.net/2009/05/hiding-a-collection/#comments Mon, 25 May 2009 16:21:20 +0000 admin http://blog.datatoy.net/?p=108 Some feedback around collection management has highlighted the need to remove charts and collections which aren’t needed, were typod, or are dupes - “eat” and “ate” for example.

A lovely new browser based interface to help manage collections is in the works. While you wait for that you can hide a chart from your profile by tweeting something like:

d datatoy *coffee ?hideme

This removes the collection from your own pages, and from any group pages for that term. As the “hideme” suggests - you will still be able to submit to this collection, and view it by typing the url directly into your browser.

A ?purge marker will be released soon allowing you to fully remove a collection and all it’s associated reports and data.

]]> http://blog.datatoy.net/2009/05/hiding-a-collection/feed/ new command - yesterday http://blog.datatoy.net/2009/05/new-command-yesterday/ http://blog.datatoy.net/2009/05/new-command-yesterday/#comments Sat, 09 May 2009 21:18:15 +0000 admin http://blog.datatoy.net/?p=54 My main frustration today was realising that I missed a bunch of stuff to add to datatoys yesterday. Like that bedtime snack, or omitting my lunch.

Frustrated no more…

yesterday1

By placing the “yesterday” before the *lunch collection marker we make sure that you don’t look like you’ve been eating “yesterday sandwiches” - whatever they might be. It also works if you put it in the comment like this

*lunch prawn sandwich !at john lewis with fee yesterday

Either style simply enters the prawn sandwich into your collection with yesterdays date.

More time shifting codes to come if this goes down well.

]]> http://blog.datatoy.net/2009/05/new-command-yesterday/feed/ The death of the semi-colon http://blog.datatoy.net/2009/05/the-death-of-the-semi-colon/ http://blog.datatoy.net/2009/05/the-death-of-the-semi-colon/#comments Sat, 09 May 2009 09:47:47 +0000 admin http://blog.datatoy.net/?p=32 Excellent news people - you no longer need to include the semi colon in tweets to your datatoy collections.

You can still use a semicolon, but when a simple message like this works so well why would you?

semicolonless tweet

Just make sure you put *collectionname BEFORE anything else you want to catch.

Some examples:

*tunes led zep

*biketraining 10km

*biscuits 12 custard creams

Just to be clear. Until this morning if you wanted to add a chicken sandwich to your lunch collection you had to put “*lunch :chicken sandwhich”, now you just put “*lunch chicken sandwich”. Both work, but the new way is better and will work for ever. The old way might disappear if we reuse the semicolon for something else.

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