tools
The Plain Text Problem
Michael Schechter, writing at his blog A Better Mess:
They want to take their backlog of DOC, DOCX and RTF files and convert them into either Markdown files or plain text files with Markdown formatting. At the moment, there’s no solution that’s viable for average computer users.
I write my articles for this site in Markdown syntax because it’s easier to read and write. I can work with scripts and other geeky implementations when I have enough time to research how they work, but I rarely have that time. I would love a tool like the one Schechter calls for in the linked post. I hope someone takes him on the suggestion.
Twitter List Copy
I just completely overhauled my Twitter lists, a few days after impulsively unfollowing everyone who didn’t follow me back. I deleted many lists and added many users to the ones I kept. I used Twitter List Copy to import all the users on other people’s lists into pre-existing lists of my own.
It uses oAuth so it’s password-free, and despite the disclaimer on the site, it seems to merge imported users with your pre-existing lists just fine. Thanks to Noah Liebman, who built this awesome tool. Follow him on Twitter or check out his website.