Make FriendFeed Slightly More Productive

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FriendFeed is becoming more and more central to my online activity. I feel I have only scratched the surface of what can be accomplished with it. Even at this early stage, I know that I have accelerated the development of relationships, and the growth of my personal knowledge just by being a regular FriendFeeder.

A recent discussion started by jeff(isageek), got me thinking. I really should have tabs for web apps I want to keep tabs on right there in FriendFeed. I mean…I’m always in it anyway, might as well try to get things done while I’m there. You may remember Duncan Riley creating a slew of scripts for adding various tabs to FriendFeed, but there were a few missing that I still needed.

You can’t be productive without access to your Calendar and your Task List, so I created a couple of quick and dirty Greasemonkey scripts based on Duncan’s.

And, just for good measure, let’s go ahead and add a tab for Identi.ca:

Another script that I find I am using a lot is the FriendFeed Read Later script. I don’t see how anyone survives without it. It will allow you to mark an item as “Later” and creates a “Read Later” tab where you can view all of the items you marked. I primarily use it to follow discussions I find interesting without having to hope they resurface or searching for them. I also use this feature to mark items I may want to blog about later.

How do you keep up with your FriendFeed? How do you make sure you stay productive while using it? Enquiring minds want to know. Leave me a comment.

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  • July 20, 2008 at 10:29 pm Louis Gray
    Duncan's tabs are great.
  • July 20, 2008 at 10:37 pm Nice Fish Films
    Looking forward to diving into the Duncan tabs and now these new ones by Rahsheen, the FF experience just keeps getting better!
  • July 20, 2008 at 10:39 pm Charlie Anzman
    Louis - I check them once in a while to see how many downloads. Bugs me a lot that more people don't use them. Really makes things easy for me and now have them on all the boxes.
  • July 23, 2008 at 5:47 am Michael C. Harris
    Shouldn't all these tabs go into a FriendFeed tabs extension ?
  • July 23, 2008 at 5:48 am Michael C. Harris
    Oh, and I get Google search instead of Google Calendar.
  • July 23, 2008 at 7:15 am Rahsheen Porter
    I have been researching the best way to put them all together, but I'm picky. I want an options interface to check/uncheck what you want. Not sure what's up with the search coming up, it happened for me once, but I can't reproduce. Are you logged in?
  • July 23, 2008 at 7:25 am Michael C. Harris
    I agree option are important. As for the calendar, yes, I'm logged in, and the calendar displays properly in a normal tab.
  • July 23, 2008 at 8:07 am Rahsheen Porter
    Thanks for pointing this out, Michael. I made an error in the url (google.com/Calendar instead of /calendar). I just fixed the script so you can download it again. That's what I get for making extensive use of find/replace :)
  • July 23, 2008 at 8:26 am Michael C. Harris
    Tested, all good. Nice work, Rahsheen :)
  • July 23, 2008 at 10:31 am Rahsheen Porter
    Thanks, It's good to be useful sometimes :)

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