Initial Feature Dump From Email

The app itself (which uses Twinput)

• The goal of the app is to give you every tool that you need to be able to effectively tweet. It is all about output not input (plenty of twitter readers!)

• The core areas are:

  • a nice large typing area
    • it shows you how many characters you have to go of course, and that number turns yellow when close and red when -
    • There are smart options for that area:
      • Auto shrink URLs:
        • http://foo.com/bar/baz/wheeble-fun-times -> http://bit.ly/apsodj
        • Only do so if over the limit!
        • Have a way to authenticate with bit.ly so it can use your custom url (e.g. ajxn.it for me)
      • Auto shrink words
        • I often find that I am trying to pare down to 140 and manually doing s/and/&/ etc etc.
        • This mode will do that for you when running out of space
        • Some fun English grammar stuff that we could do too
      • Auto Name Lookup
        • You type "Had a fun chat with @Eri" and it pops down based on real name and username.
      • Location: [ON | OFF] (do the geolocation thing)
    • There are actions that are buttons to do something
      • NOTE: Undo should go back to the state from before
      • Run shrink (e.g. if auto-shrink is turned off).
      • Upload: give you a way to upload an image / video (need a way to choose a service.....)
      • One Time Location: instead of turning it on and off, a "add location to this tweet" setting
  • A rich "character palette" under the text area that lets you type in richer unicode characters and common "words"
    • e.g. one click "http://" type template
    • ♺ == the manual "retweet"
    • fancy quotes
    • see http://feathersapp.com/

• Side bars

  • search bar gives you a way to quickly look things up without leaving the app.
    • find people and their usernames
    • find hashtags that people are using so you use the same ones
    • find other peoples tweets on a topic
  • snippets
    • a way to store your common insertions and smart templates like:
      • quote: "" - @USER
      • hat tip: "/ht @USER"

• Think about keyboard shortcuts to really help out too (e.g. insert template 1 with a keystroke, assign unicode characters to a keystroke, etc)