App of the week for journalists: Greplin
Greplin is a fantastic iPhone app that allows you to search your documents, emails and Twitter account
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App of the week:
Phones:
iPhone
Cost:
Free
What is it?
An app that allows you to search personal files, calendars, tweets and more.
How is it of use to journalists?
Greplin is a fantastic tool which allows you to search your accounts, including Gmail, Google Docs, Google Calendar, Yahoo Mail, Facebook, Twitter, Dropbox and LinkedIn.
It's available via a browser but has an iPhone app which is likely to become one of your most used apps if you use several of the above accounts. <img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-43786" height="375" src="?cmd=ShowAsset&assetID=43117&nosurround=true&fakeExtension=.jpg" title="greplin1" width="250"> <img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-43787" height="375" src="?cmd=ShowAsset&assetID=43118&nosurround=true&fakeExtension=.jpg" title="greplin2" width="250">
The app will allow you to enter a keyword and find any reference to that word in your personal files.
Mac users are likely to find it almost as useful as Apple's Spotlight for searching your own documents, tweets and emails.
Greplin users have the option to pay for a premium service and add more accounts, including Delicious. For anyone who uses the bookmarking tool this can be an attractive option as you can easily find articles you bookmarked in relation to a keyword.
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Sarah Marshall is VP Audience Strategy at Condé Nast. She leads distribution and channel strategy globally. She is also the former technology editor for Journalism.co.uk (prior to it becoming JournalismUK)
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