Save by email
under review
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Adrian Boncan
Sending a link, text or image (as attachment) to a specific email address linked to one's account will save it to Collecta. Here's for example how Dropmark is doing it: https://support.dropmark.com/article/32-saving-items-via-email
This will help with saving from a mobile device as well (not as simple as with a native app, but not too complicated and probably easier to implement)
Igor Lanko
under review
Igor Lanko
Oh man, I love all sort of versatile ways that allow contributing to your space. You never know when something pops up and just be able to have many corridors that lead to the same “collectors space” (no pun intended) is a great feeling about the product experience. This is definitely the way, I think.
Though I personally have never used this in Dropmark (been a user back in ≈2012), I'm curious about the flow? Is this useful mostly on the mobile experience, or desktop as well?
I mean yeah, I've said it many times here, mobile app is tricky as hell. Showing your collected artifacts and collections is easy. But to me personally, it's the share widget that's difficult, because it requires raw Swift. How would you use it on mobile? Is it like Share → Email client → Saved contact that is collection's address?
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Adrian Boncan
Igor Lanko I'm an Android user, and Dropmark does not have an Android client. Sharing a link is relatively easy, but indeed it takes longer than a simple share action: you just select Share > Email Client, and the title of the link is automatically shared and the link is in the text. I just select the email address and the To: field to send the email. and An image is shared as an attachment. But I'm cheating a little bit :). The real strength of a tool with an email Inbox comes from using an automation service like IFTTT or Zapier. For instance if I tag something in my RSS reader (and to avoid the deluge of "artifacts" of the modern world, I would use RSS for most of the things I put in Collecta), it will automatically be sent to my inbox. Much, much simpler, and I would argue more versatile, because I can set up this kind of flow for other sources of information as an input, like chat apps, bookmark managers, cloud storage apps (tools that have a solid "Share to" menu anyway). The risk is not to go overboard to get to the 500 artifacts limit, but I will have to trust/adjust my personal "filters" for that.