Use Trackle.com the Right Way
Posted on 31. Jul, 2009 by [modern media mom] in Applications/Software, Latest News, Links & Resources, Organization, Productivity, Resources
As with any other site on the internet, it doesn’t matter how cool it is, if you don’t know how to use it, it’s not going to help you one bit.
Trackle is actually quite simple to use, but there are a couple of things to be aware of to make it more useful and less annoying.
Once you’ve created your account, start searching for things you’d like to track: jobs, weather, books, Twitter trending topics…
Chances are, someone else has already set up a track for it, but if not, you can choose to track anything on the web by choosing “Trackle anyone or anything on the web”. Because it offers that option, and you can create your own items to follow, it really is a highly useful site.
To set up your Tracklet, select the orange “+Add” button. You will be taken to a screen that will have various options to select that are relevant to that topic. In addition to those options, you will be choosing how you are notified:
Select “Daily Email Digest” unless you want to open your inbox to 453 emails. “Instant Email” is just that – it sends you a single email each time your topic is tracked and something is found. So when I set up crime for my area, it flooded my inbox with updates until it caught up with today.
The digest arrives neat and tidy in your inbox with a link for alerts for each of your subscriptions:
Your other options to choose are whether you want to receive your notices via text, email or on the Trackle site. And also, privacy. If you are tracking crime in your neighborhood and it shows your zip and address, or if you are tracking some other info that identifies anything that could pose a potential problem, select “Make private”:
That is really all there is to it. Select these couple of things and you can begin tracking any and everything online…
