Please take a few minutes to learn how useKit works – and you will soon benefit by having your data neatly stored and organized on one platform.
Add items to useKit
In a first step, you add anything you like to the useKit platform. There are three easy ways to do that:
1. Paste a URL
The same goes for every URL that contains a pdf, movie, audio file, map, doodle calendar, and more.
useKit allows you to highlight or underline certain words or sentences and structure your text by inserting titles or subtitles. You can edit your texts at any time.
Click “
“ to upload files. Click “
“ to see your previously uploaded files.
Modify your collected items
Now that we have established the first step – adding items to useKit – let’s move on to the second step: structuring and modifying your items as you see fit. We encourage you to assign a title, description, and Context to every item. This allows you to manage them as efficiently as possible and share them with others.
Comment on your items
By adding comments to your items or those of your friends and colleagues, you can utilize a reminding component for later visits, give your fellow Context users further information, or ask them a question.
The next useKit newsletter will explain how you can make use of Contexts and collect data in the web with the useKit toolbar. We are always happy to assist you in any difficulty you might experience. Please let us know your questions or suggestions and we will get back to you.
Best,
Your useKit team
Delicious import, Google search integration, … – and a happy new year!
Here at useKit we almost missed the end of 2010 and suddenly Christmas was two days ahead. Until the 22nd of December we were running over the tasks of the last major release in 2010, adding a bunch of new features such as: Google Search integration, direct sharing of content or our new “one-click” clipping. And after the rumors that Yahoo would shut down delicious, we decided to drive our head developer nuts and added an import functionality for delicious bookmarks to the release. With a great effort of all our developers, we were able to release before Christmas and even had time for a small Christmas party.
What’s new:
We are proud how easy it is to import all your delicious bookmarks into useKit and even preserve the tags. It only takes three easy steps after being registered.
First, click the prominent “Import your bookmarks from Delicious” button. This leads you to the first part of the import dialogue.
Either select an already connected delicious account or enter your delicious or Yahoo account data and proceed to the next page.
After a successful import, you will see the following dialogue confirming the import and showing some statistics. You can now retrieve, organize and share your bookmarks or add new content. In addition, useKit recognizes the type of URL and content such as slideshares, youtube videos or doodle votes is directly shown. As an example visit Nicolas’ delicious bookmarks here.
Please provide us with feedback on how you like our integration and what could improve your way of finding useKit content.
To allow the sharing of large files, web-clippings or any other content with non useKit users, we added what we call “one-to-one content”. A send button below every content item allows to send a single content item to any email address or useKit contact.
The recipient will receive a notification with a link to the content item. For reasons of security, the link is limited to three downloads. In a next step, we will include an optional password for the link. This function can be used to send large files to people with limited inboxes, for the fast exchange of information or for anything else.