[kind of lifehack] Adding a task from Chrome context menu

Sometimes you need to send a text or a link on a page to Nozbe as a new task. There’re plenty of ways to do it, but the easiest is to add it via the context menu of your browser.

I use Google Chrome and since there’s no extension capable to do it, I’ve found a complex way.

1. Create a secret blog on Tumblr
2. Do everything to keep it from strangers’ eyes: disable indexing by search engines using special option in the settings and tweaking the template code
3. Install Post to Tumblr extension and connect it with the account you’ve just created.
4. Register on ifttt – it’s a great new service allowing you to connect different web services with each other and perform tasks in one of them when smth happens in another. It’s invite-only now, but I’ve got 5 invites – email me smirnov.aleksej@gmail.com and I’ll send you one.
5. Connect your Tumblr and your Twitter with ifttt. It’s as simple as activating the appropriate channel in ifttt.
6. Create a new Task: if (Tumblr – any new post) then (Twitter – post a new tweet – d Nozbe {{PostContent}}).
7. That’s all – the ifttt interface will guide you through the rest of task-creating process.

So, what happens now? When you select something and post it via context menu to Tumblr:

a new post with the selected text appears in the secret Tumblr blog. ifttt engine checks the blog from time to time and sends a dm to Nozbe via twitter if there’s a new post in it – just like you would add a task via twitter yourself. This dm contains your post. Oh yes, I forgot – you need to connect a twitter account to Nozbe first!

I’m using this scheme myself and it works flawlessly. Of course, there’s 140-symbol limit, and if the text is too long it shrinks:

Also because of Twitter or Nozbe API limitations, the task won’t appear immediately in your inbox.

If someone finds a better way, please let me know :-)