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Happy Friends
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Tuesday, June 24, 2014 at 6:02 PM


GETTING STARTED WITH HAPPY FRIENDS

This doc shows you how to get started in a few simple steps. #

 1. Go to the Happy Friends web page. #

 2. In the right corner of the menu bar, you'll see a blue Twitter icon say says
    Sign on here. Click, a menu drops down. Choose the last command, Sign on
    Twitter.#

 3. You're transported to Twitter, where you can give Happy Friends permission
    to access your account. It won't post on your behalf or read any private
    messages. You're just giving the app permission to ask Twitter, on your
    behalf, for the updates of the users you specify. #

 4. When you come back, the first thing to do is to give Happy Friends a few
    people to watch. To do that, choose Add Friend in the Friends menu. Enter
    the Twitter handle of a user, and click OK.#

 5. If you want to add a few people quickly, choose Add Suggested Friends from
    the Friends menu. #

 6. When you want to see what's new, double-click on any of the friends to see
    their most recent tweets. #

 7. When you put your cursor on a tweet, the full Twitter rendering of the tweet
    appears in the right margin, with pictures, videos, cards. #

 8. There are icons in the left margin of the page #

 9. When a name goes bold, that means there are new items underneath it. Happy
    Friends is checking periodically to see if there are updates. #

At the simplest level, that's all there is to Happy Friends. But you can do much
more with it.#

THE ICONS

Here's a screen shot of the Happy Friends app taken on shipping day. You'll see
a set of icons in the left margin. Some will be familiar, the recycle symbol for
Retweet, the left arrow for Reply, the star for Favorite. #

The first icon, an up-pointing arrow in a circle will archive the tweet you're
pointing at. It moves it from its current location to a calendar structure it
creates at the top of the outline. When you see a tweet that you want to keep,
you should archive it. #

The last icon, the eye, takes you to the Twitter website to view whatever the
cursor is pointing at. If it's pointing at a person, you go to the person's
profile page. If it's pointing at a tweet, you go to the tweet in its full
context, on twitter.com.#

IT'S AN OUTLINER

You can organize it any way you want. The people don't have to be at the top
level. You can create groups of friends. You can move the archive to the bottom
of the outline. Outliners are tools for editing organization. This is the same
outliner as in Fargo so it's a pretty good one, and is fairly complete. #

We have an outliner how-to document that gives the basics of how the outliner
works. #

If you forget any of the commands, choose the Outliner Cribsheet from the Docs
menu in Happy Friends.#

DELETE TWEETS WHEN YOU'VE READ THEM

It's a good idea to keep the lists under each person short. Archive the ones you
want to keep around.#

WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?

Lots of places. That depends on the response to the product. I'll be listening
carefully and watching what people do with it. I've really enjoyed making htis
product. I hope you like using it! #

Dave#

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By Dave Winer, Tuesday, June 24, 2014 at 6:02 PM. Still diggin!