Tips and Tricks
Updating Twitter's status and Facebook's status or notes by email
The simplest way
is by clicking the The coolest way
is by sending an email to your personal JeJot's mail address (provided once you have registered).
After you have authorized JeJot to update your Twitter status, then whenenver you send an email to your JeJot account, it will automatically update your Twitter status using your email subject and if you have a body message, the body will be posted under your account at JeJot and your Twitter status will have a short URL directed to your post at JeJot.
If you don't want to post it to Twitter and it is a personal note that you just want to share it with some friends, just add '-pyournotepassword' at the end of your subject. i.e. Subject: Hi this is me sun bathing -psecret Your content will be posted on JeJot, but will not be crossposted to Twitter. In a minute, you will receive a reply from the mail server containing your password (in this case it's 'secret') and a link to your jot.
Use Selective Twitter App on Facebook, so everytime you add #fb at the end of your email subject, the post will also be crossposted to your Facebook account. Or use Twitter app on Facebook, so any of your email which is crossposted to your Twitter will also be posted on Facebook. How cool is that?
All email addresses found on your email body will be hidden, so you can safely forward any email to be posted on Twitter, Facebook or just share with your private groups
Posting a photo to Twitter
Cheese... Snap and send it to your JeJot's personal email address. Your email subject will be the status of your Twitter account and a short link will be placed to view your photo at JeJot.
Posting a long note to Twitter
Send any email, Instant Messaging conversation, or anything whether it is a plain text or a rich media text to your JeJot account. Done. Your Twitter status will be updated with the email subject and a short link to your note/forwared email at JeJot.com
Posting a long note and share with friends
If you are not authorizing JeJot to post your jot to Twitter, then, any email sent to your JeJot account, will be posted at JeJot, and you will receive a reply in a minute containing your short link to your content (jot)
Protecting a note or a photo with a password
Just add '-pyournotepassword' at the end of your subject. i.e. Subject: Hi this is me sun bathing -psecret. Or, add a password after you posted from web form. You can reset a password anytime.
Shortening a long URL
Just send a long URL to your JeJot account and you'll receive a reply from the server containing a shotened link that you can share with anyone. (Note: If you have authorized JeJot to update your Twitter account, then you will NOT receive any reply)
All jots are yours, no one knows unless you give them the link
FAQ
What is it?
- Is this some kind of blog or free website?
The purpose of this service is not creating a web page or blogging, but saving any notes, links or photos in easy way. You can also forward any email, paste any note or long URL to JeJot, and automatically twit to your Twitter account. Take a look at our Jot
- My content is missing!
If you are an unregistered user, as our TOS says, we may delete your content in 90 days since it's last accessed.
- My friend can't open the content, it's password protected. What's up with that?
Each content, will have each own privacy setting. When you password protected your jots/content, everyone who wants to read the jot must have the password. You can reset its password by sign in to JeJot, open your content and reset the content's password. (Not your account password).
- My friend can't see my jot list.
You need to make your profile public, so your friend can see the list.
- Why don't you display other members' contents on your site?
We believe that not everyone wants to share their private belongings to the world.
Mail posting
- Can I put a password on my content when posting from a mail client?
Yes. Just put '-ppassword' at the end of your subject. i.e. Subject: Hello world, this is my t-shirt -psecret. So, your password will be 'secret'
- What if I send a long URL using email?
You can send with subject or with no subject. JeJot will get the title of the destination page if you don't provide one. JeJot automatically detects if the content is a link
- How many attachment can I submit?
At the moment you can submit just one image. Just attach it to your email. Make sure your email is in plain text when submitting a picture with body content
- When I send you a note using an email client, I am not getting any reply from the server.
Some will have this kind of experience due to encoding type that the system doesn't understand. The best thing you can try is to switch any encoding type from your email client to UTF-8 - How can I integrate this service with Twitter, Facebook, Yahoogroups, etc?
You can always integrate the service with them, every content or link, will have its own short URL. For Twitter users, you can integrate it by clicking the 'Auto Post' to Twitter on your account, so when you send an email with a content, the content will be automatically show up on your Twitter account.
- Can I update my Twitter status using this service?
Yes. If you send the update by email, the subject will be your status. A link to your attachment, and the body content will also be stored at JeJot for easy access later on. BUT, if you send an email with a subject only with no attachment or body of the email, the content won't be stored at JeJot database, but your Twitter status will be updated
Link shortener
- Can I shorten the long URL?
You bet! Just enter the URL and you'll get the short URL, and people who click on it will be shown what the destination will be and the preview of the destination page, so it's safer (You know where you are going).
- Can I shorten the long URL using email?
Yes. Just paste any URL to your email and send it to your private JeJot email address. You get a reply with a shortened URL
- I put www.domainexample.com, but it's not redirected to the that page when I click the shorten URL
Yes, you need to put http://, https://, ftp:// in the beginning of the link for the redirection to work and no space in the begining of the link as well as no rich text formating, otherwise, we think it's a jot.
Twitter integration
- How can I do that?
First, you must integrate your JeJot's account with Twitter under your Account setting. Then, everytime you submit from email client, it will be auto post to your Twitter.
- What if I don't want to auto submit to Twitter for some of my contents?
Just add -ppassword at the end of your subject. The content will be protected by a password and won't be auto posted to your Twitter



