Tuesday, January 16, 2007

Update!

So we just rolled out a great update that's moving us a lot closer to where we want to be.

Here's the highlights:

Email Input!
So you've got an account? Just send a message to account AT hipcamp.com and it will pop up on a new island called "Inbox." Sound good? It get's even better. Attachements to that email will automatically be filed in the MyHippocampus storage cortex.

Timeline
There's still more to come with this feature, but the bare bones are there! You can now see your topics that have date information on a timeline. To do this you'll need to add a "Date" property to an island. Let's see an example.

  1. Create a island called "Movies"

  2. Open up that island

  3. Click "Add Property"

  4. Type "Date Seen"

  5. Choose type "Date"

  6. Click the property "Save" button

  7. Now add "Spartacus" to the Movie island

  8. And you'll see a place to add the date you saw Spartacus!

  9. Now open up the timeline by clicking on the Hourglass in the dashboard and... voila!


Firefox Plugin
You can get the firefox plugin from the page that you land on after you login. Since we're currently hosting the plugin on our machine you'll need to "add myhippocampus.com" to your list of trusted update sites. The option to do this should appear in a little bar in your browser when you click on the link.

When Firefox restart you should have a seahorse up near the address bar! Goto a website like The Show with zefrank and when you're their click on the seahorse. Now you can save this link into your hippo. In the box marked tags, type in anything you'd like, hitting enter to add each term. These will become new topics in your hippocampus and they'll have the link you saved!