This idea was brought about to meet two challenges. The first is minimizing the number of apps on my phone. I had an explosion of them, which was fun for awhile. But now I'm in a contraction. I want a few really good apps rather than lots of single purpose apps. For example, by making Evernote a blogging platform I was able to eliminate the Posterous app (although the email app could have also been used). The second challenge was that I felt my reading process stopped once the item was read. So I read something interesting and want to comment. But then I have to do this, then that. Etc. Fiddling with my phone/iPad. Not ideal. I want to take a news item and quote it, expand on it, and do it within the same infrastructure as my other work. Evernote is my research inbox, so it seemed natural. Ifttt.com is a web tool that is in private beta. However, I requested an invite and received it in a couple days. Like Yahoo Pipes or Tarpipe, it's a really useful service for tying together the different parts of the web that...
