Public API: Everything You Need To Know In Order To Use It

You might have seen it on our frontpage already, a link to our public API that enables you to make use of thinkery’s technology on other platforms, for example native apps on your Mac or alternative clients on mobile phones, or a simple tool that will add a new thing to thinkery.

Three things you need to know: 

1. Our API is based on OAuth2.
2. You need to register your app before the API can be used.
3. We return JSON data.

These pages should get you started quickly:

• API Overview provides you with a detailed documentation of all available functions with lots of examples
• API Explorer is an interactive version, i.e. use it to play around with a few API calls
• API Sample Applications provide you with a head start using the popular languages PHP, Ruby and Python

We’re eager to know what you are building with it! Let us know and we’ll send out a tweet.

New Frontpage: One for all.

In an effort to better explain how thinkery can help you and what features we provide in order to do that we just relaunched our frontpage.

Check it out

Accessing thinkery through SSL now the default PLUS Chrome Extension Update

We have completed an invisible but important feature: thinkery.me now uses SSL/TLS by default for encrypting the data transfer between your device and us, therefor making access to your things more secure.

Using SSL/TLS is especially helpful when accessing thinkery through a public wifi network in a coffee shop, conference venue or other location. 

At the same time we have also updated our Google Chrome Extension (Version 1.2). Next to now using SSL it also sends the associated page url when adding a text selection, and, has improved user session and cookie handling.

Hello Android! Get the thinkery App from the Google Play Store now!

After tuning the last bits we’re happy to announce the release of our thinkery Android App. It is now available in Google’s Play Store!

The app is free to use for locally storing your thoughts and things. The syncing feature is available as an in-app purchase ($2.59 or €1.99).

The most important features at a glance:

• Quickly add, edit, delete things on the go
• Super-fast search results as you type
• Have all your things available offline
• Full-screen read mode: double-tap on the thing contents
• Sync in the background via push. You add something on thinkery.me and it gets transmitted to your phone automatically in no time

Supported Android Versions: 2.2 and above

It would be great if you could give the app an honest store rating and send us feedback for future improvements.

Now With Auto-Save & Refined Tag Settings

Did you ever jot down thoughts then switch to another thing only to find out your notes had been lost? No more!

Today we’re introducing our new Auto-Save feature so you can stop worrying. While in Edit-Mode your notes get saved automatically every 60 seconds, and, we also save the currently opened thing when you switch to another one.

A lot of people have requested this feature so we’re really happy it is finally available to you.

Another refinement is around tags. Before you had two different places to define your tag settings, i.e. marking a tag as favorite, setting it as todo or giving it a special color.

First we have combined those tag settings and second made them more easily accessible right from your sidebar. While hovering over a tag a little settings icon appears which opens an overlay on click. There you can set the following:

• Set a tag as “Favorite tag”, meaning those tags will be above all others in the tag list
• Mark a tag as “Todo tag”, creating an automatic checkbox next to them
• Give a tag a special color, for ex. red: #ff0000. We’ll be soon introducing a simpler color picker, for now you have to use Hex-Colors.

As always, should you spot an error or have more feedback for us, let us know in the comments.

Faster Loading Times & Better Performance

You probably won’t see any change but hopefully still notice it. We have optimized bits of the underlying code so you should experience faster loading times and generally have more performance when using thinkery.

Before the app was requesting 37 assets and you had to wait for around 3 seconds.
After our optimisations there are only 6 requests and load time is down to 1 second.

Hurray! :)

New Text Editor

We have integrated an improved and more modern text editor in thinkery. It enables you to use

• keyboard shortcuts, for example for making text bold using Ctrl/Cmd-b
• a nice full screen mode where you have more space for editing your things
• it works properly in mobile browsers (iPhone, iPad, Android)
• tables, horizontal rulers, images, links, etc.

We hope you enjoy the new editor! As always we are very interested in your feedback, tell us if it works better or worse for you, or if you just like it :)

Anonymous asked: On Android?

We’re currently running an Android beta program. The app will be released to the public end of february/beginning of march

Anonymous asked: how to make a todo list?

You just add #todo to a thing and it automatically turns into a todo item

Anonymous asked: Hi...I'm really interested in using Thinkery. It sounds so efficient and easy. But I just have one question. You see, I'd love to upload all my favorites to a site like your's and then be able to delete from my computer without losing anything. Will I be able to do that?

Yes, with thinkery you have all possibilities of importing and exporting content. Thanks for asking