threadsy - combine all your email, twitter, Facebook into one

You spent all that time creating multiple email, twitter, and Facebook accounts to keep all your identities separate. You created sexyblond@yahoo.com for online dating, MrSold@gmail.com for selling real estate, sportsahole@gmail.com for posting on sports message boards, opinionatedahole@yahoo.com for posting political messages, and geekmeister@hotmail.com for your tech reviews. You then created five corresponding separate twitter accounts. You also have a Facebook account.

The idea was good back then, but now you are just sick of logging into 11 different accounts. You just want to simplify.

How do you go back to being a single entity? You can combine all your different personas back into one with threadsy.

SETUP:
To begin using threadsy:
1. Go to threadsy.com.
2. Choose a username and password that you will use for your unified threadsy account.
3. Add all the email accounts that you want to lump under this threadsy account. For each account you want to add, you'll need to enter that account's password only once. After that, threadsy will remember all your different passwords and you'll only have to login to one threadsy account to open all those included accounts. This is definitely a time saver. By the way, you can always delete email accounts off the list if you decide later you don't want certain email accounts included in the threadsy account. The supported email types are Yahoo Mail, Gmail, Google Apps email, Hotmail, and AOL!
4. Add all your twitter accounts the same way you added your email accounts.
5. Add your Facebook account. Under Facebook terms, you are only allowed one Facebook account. Threadsy follows this rule thus only allows you to add one Facebook account to threadsy.

Now you are ready to rock and roll.

LOGIN and fire up all of your various communication accounts at once.

Up pops a nice layout with two neatly separated panes.

READ all of your emails in one centralized place:

The layout is divided into two panes:
1. The left pane shows all your Inbound messages. Inbound messages are those messages that the sender purposefully wanted you in particular to receive and address to you in particular.
All of your email inbox messages from all of your various email accounts
Direct messages from Facebook and Twitter (i.e. post on your Facebook wall, direct message to your Facebook inbox, @yourusername post from Twitter) as opposed to news feeds which were broadcast to everyone not you in particular.
2. The right pane shows all your Unbound material. When you are not looking at any email message in particular, threadsy displays your general streams from Twitter (status updates) /Facebook (news feeds) on the right pane.
3. If you click on a particular message in the left pane, the right pane will show you the bio, status, and updates from the person who sent you that message.

In the Inbound pane, you can see ALL of your messages from ALL of your accounts in one list. Icons on the right of the messages in the message list tell you which account the message was from. If you only want to concentrate on one particular email account, click the dropdown box and select which email account you want to display. By default, your email account names may be something like yahoo1, yahoo2, yahoo3, etc.

SEND while choosing any of your accounts as the sender:

You can choose to reply straight from a message or compose fresh with New Message. One useful feature is no matter which email account you received the message, you can reply from any of your email accounts. For example, what if one of the Laker fans who taunts you at your sportsahole@gmail.com account ends up asking you for house information? No problem, you can click the drop down menu and select MrSold@gmail.com as the sender.

SEARCH all of your accounts at once:

Now you can search for a keyword in ALL of your email, twitter, and Facebook messages all in one spot at the same time. If I enter "cloud computing" in the search box, threadsy will show all emails, twitter, and Facebook messages that have "cloud computing" in them.

BE CAREFUL:

Don't forget that you created all those separate accounts for a reason. Now you have to be careful when accounts for different purposes mix. For example, no matter which of your email accounts you email from, threadsy will, by default, attach a threadsy signature that mixes elements of all your accounts. You may have wanted to be somewhat anonymous, but in your haste you did not notice that threadsy created your signature using your profile pic from twitter which happens to currently be your face photoshopped onto Jon Bon Jovi's body, your online dating email address sexyblond@yahoo.com, along with your real estate slogan "By the way, I'm never too busy for your referrals." Ouch! Your contact will be referring you all right, but not for what you expected.

SUMMARY:
Threadsy is a powerful tool for simplifying your communications if used correctly. Just be aware of what info is showing on your threadsy-generated email signature. Safer yet, just click off this threadsy signature. Enjoy!