Tips & Tricks Tuesday: Keeping track of shipments with a quick task

If you’re as addicted to online shopping as Bob is, check out this week’s tip. rossgoodman shares a simple way to add a link via Twitter from Amazon or another site that gives you a link to track an item’s shipment.

If you buy lots of items from Amazon (guilty as charged) it can sometimes be difficult to keep track of what you have ordered and when it should be coming and occasionally something can slip through the cracks.

As I have my RTM account and my Twitter account linked, there is a handy feature you can use.

When you complete a purchase with Amazon (UK version at least - I’m assuming it’s the same in the international versions) they give you an option to share with your friends on Facebook, Twitter or Email that “I just bought …”.

If you select the Twitter option and then always make sure you prefix the message with D RTM then the item can be added to your list.

I tend to edit the “I just bought …” to become “Confirm delivery of …” and then add the suffix “#Shopping ^1 week” so that it is categorised correctly.

You can also use the email feature to do the same - but “your” RTM email address is a bit harder to memorise.

Thanks for sharing this tip, rossgoodman! You’re our Tips & Tricks Tuesday winner this week.

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