I have been using Twitter to send tasks to my Vitalist inbox for a few days. I got an email asking me to test out Vitalist Tools, which currently only has Twitter. Today, I saw that Vitalist has announced it on their blog. The setup is easy. Simply add your Twitter user name and your Vitalist API key. The only thing I did wrong was that I did not activate my Vitalist API key. Make sure to turn yours on before you link your Vitalist to Twitter.
You may be thinking, why bother? Doesn’t Vitalist have a WAP interface? Can’t you simply email your tasks to Vitalist? The answer to both is Yes. However, Twitter serves as a more convenient entry method for me. On most days, I have Twitter turned on throughout the day on my computer or on my mobile phone. Therefore, it is easy to simply send a reminder via direct message on Google Talk or to send a reply SMS from my phone. Making an entry via Twitter is less disruptive of my workflow. I don’t have to stop what I am doing to pull up an email client or web browser. I will, however, grant you one thing. Twitter has its issues with dropping messages or not being consistently available. That is damn irritating. On the upside, Vitalist gives you other options to make your entries whenever Twitter is down. Once Twitter is more reliable, this mashup should prove to be the perfect GTD app.
Shaine 