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TwitNotes v2 beta 3 released

TwitNotes v2 beta 3 is now installable from my update site at http://update.lekkimworld.com/twitnotes2. Comments are more than welcome either here or via twitter as a reply to @lotustwitnotes. This release adds additional hover action support (search for patterns in tweet text such as username, email addresses etc.) and better width handling.

Known "issues" of the top of my head:

  • Need to figure out the best UI for the tweet list
  • Additional context actions needed?
  • Need to add retweet support
  • Need to add drag'n'drop support
  • Need to add LiveText integration

It's not installable by widget as well. Simply drag the link to your MyWidgets sidebar.

Please note: I use the client as my primary Twitter client and I feel it's ready for general usage although it is a beta so please treat accordingly.

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Posted by Mikkel Flindt Heisterberg on 29 November 2010 09:51:15 CET #


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Re: TwitNotes v2 beta 3 released

Comment from Michael Nielsen on 29 November 2010 10:44:52 CET #
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Re: TwitNotes v2 beta 3 released

Comment from Mikkel Heisterberg on 29 November 2010 10:51:20 CET #
There is an expandable section at the bottom (just like the preview pane for email). Expand that and tweet away (or right-click a tweet to reply).
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Re: TwitNotes v2 beta 3 released

Comment from Zeff Wheelock on 29 November 2010 21:22:03 CET #
XP issue fixed with text. Thanks.

Some suggestions:

* Date/Time or how old the tweets are.
* Make URLs clickable (http://fb.me/...)
* Have each tweet in an autoexpandable box (right now, if you have the sidebar pretty narrow, you lose the rest of the tweet since the boxes are fixed sizes.)
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Comment from Mikkel Heisterberg on 30 November 2010 09:10:45 CET #
Thanks for the comments. The missing clickable URL's is a build bug and will be corrected today - bummer on my part. Existing installs should be easily corrected by using the "search for updated for currently installed features". Will post on twitter when the new build is available.

As to the timestamps I totally agree.

As to the width of the sidebar. Problem is there is no way of dynamically adjusting the height of the items in the table. Well there is but only to make it higher so if you went ahead and made the sidebar wider afterwards it wouldn't shrink accordingly. That's why I'm opting for a fixed width.

Given that would you rather have the tweet cut of in the bottom with a "..." indicating that more text is available? When once clicked I could show the entire tweet - does that make sense to you?
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Comment from Zeff Wheelock on 30 November 2010 19:51:31 CET #
I think the ... would suffice at the end. What would people think if when you hover over the tweet, if a pop-up tool tip type of window comes up or when you click on a non-link inside the tweet, it will have a slide out window with the full text of the tweet. Or even click on the ... as you said and have one of the above mentioned windows show up. Keep up the good work!
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Comment from Zeff Wheelock on 30 November 2010 21:13:01 CET #
Couple more suggestions which I am not sure can be implemented or not but the ability to download earlier tweets. If you are following a bunch of people, you could go through the entire listing and miss some earlier ones. Some of the twitter icons are not displaying. Not sure if it is a different type of graphic or not, but in Twitter page they display but in TwitNotes they don't. I follow our local TV channels tweets for sports: SportsCenter5 (WCVB Boston Sports) and their icon does not show in TwitNotes. Maybe define each tweet with a thin grey line between the tweets.
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Comment from Anthony Miller on 03 December 2010 17:52:35 CET #
I get nothing in the pop up  box after clicking Initiate
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Comment from Mikkel Heisterberg on 03 December 2010 17:59:44 CET #
Wierd. Do you get an error message? Anything in Help/Support/View Trace? Thanks.
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Re: TwitNotes v2 beta 3 released

Comment from Mikkel Heisterberg on 03 December 2010 18:20:59 CET #
That box is an embedded browser. Can you surf to twitter.com in the embedded browser?
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Comment from harsha on 05 December 2010 12:16:43 CET #
I get error while installing. The widgets below had issues during installation. See the log for more details. http://update.lekkimworld.com/twitnotes2/site.xml
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Comment from Mikkel Heisterberg on 05 December 2010 12:36:57 CET #
The link you provide is not the widget but the update site. The widget is here --> http://lekkimworld.com/files/twitnotes2/beta3/extension.xml
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Comment from Dan King on 06 January 2011 12:55:07 CET #
Just installed this, looking good, but the urls aren't clickable and have tried to search for updates but none found. Did this get fixed?
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Comment from Mikkel Heisterberg on 06 January 2011 12:57:39 CET #
Great to hear and thanks! :-) The URL's are clickable (I hope you're seeing them blue - right?) but sometimes I have to doubleclick for some reason I haven't figured out yet.
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Comment from Dan King on 06 January 2011 13:15:59 CET #
Thanks for the quick reply

It sometimes works (with a double-click or more), but not always

When I click on the tweet the whole tweet turns blue and the url is hard to see, and isn't copyable either, which would be useful
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Re: TwitNotes v2 beta 3 released

Comment from Mikkel Heisterberg on 06 January 2011 13:20:22 CET #
Agree - a copy/paste option and/or drag'n'drop would be nice. Will probably be added as an example/demo for my Lotusphere sessions. As for background coloring I'll look into changing it.

Question - did you have a hard time finding out where/how to tweet from the sidebar plugin?
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Comment from Dan King on 06 January 2011 13:36:44 CET #
Thanks

I did have to look on here to find out where the tweet option was yes. I think I'd uninstalled an earlier version when I couldn't find it, so making it more obvious would be good (maybe just default to open, once you know it's there there's no problem)
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Comment from Mul on 07 January 2011 12:43:12 CET #
How do you remove the v.1.013 version ? I've managed to install newest release without removing  the old one
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Comment from Mikkel Heisterberg on 07 January 2011 12:51:33 CET #
Try the "Manual Uninstall" section at http://lekkimworld.com/attentionotes
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Comment from JP on 07 April 2011 00:26:25 CEST #

Hi Mikkel,

I am trying to install TwitNotes v2 on IBM Notes <font size="1">8.5.1 SHF29</font>

<font size="1">Unfortunately it fails installing and found in the logs a WARNING which says</font>

<font size="1">Feature com.lekkimworld.twitnotes2.feature_1.0.0.201011300820 is not installed on the platform.</font>

<font size="1">Any ideas how I can work around this?</font>

<font size="1">TIA</font>

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Re: TwitNotes v2 beta 3 released

Comment from Zeff Wheelock on 04 May 2011 21:55:05 CEST #
When is TwitNotes coming out of beta?  Do you have other features planned for TwitNotes?
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Comment from Zeff Wheelock on 08 July 2011 20:09:48 CEST #
I am having an issue where TwitNotes is not updating. I quit from Notes and go back in and it pulls the current tweets, but never updates afterwards.  I tried to uninstall and remove everything related to TwitNotes from the Features and Plugins and reinstall to no avail. Anything else I should look at?
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Re: TwitNotes v2 beta 3 released

Comment from Mark Shaffer on 11 August 2011 22:11:09 CEST #
I'm having the same problem as Zeff, using v2 beta 3 and Notes 8.5.2FP2 on Win 7 Pro 64-bit.  Worked fine until early July, so I'm guessing recent Twitter changes broke TwitNotes?
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Re: TwitNotes v2 beta 3 released

Comment from Mark Shaffer on 11 August 2011 22:12:58 CEST #
I'm having the same problem as Zeff, using v2 beta 3 and Notes 8.5.2FP2 on Win 7 Pro 64-bit.  Worked fine until early July, so I'm guessing recent Twitter changes broke TwitNotes?

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