A quick search for “Trimit” will give you a male grooming product at Amazon. The next result in the search will give you an iPhone app that lets you succinctly summarize content on your mobile device. Recently released in the iTunes App Store for 99 cents, Trimit takes large amounts of text and automatically shortens it for you to use in a variety of social network apps like Twitter andFacebook.
For Twitter, with its 140-character maximum, this comes in especially handy. You can either paste in text or import it with a URL. Once it’s in the editing window, you can shorten it for Facebook, Tumblr, StumbleUpon, LinkedIn, Reddit, Twitter, email, or SMS by simply shaking your phone. You can also download the summary as a .txt file for later use and it can be synced with a computer.
If you’re worried about your text becoming indecipherable, you can rest assured. The app uses a special algorithm to decipher which words and letters are important and shouldn’t be changed. It looks for proper nouns, dates, facts and figures, and places. You can also choose to turn off/on the option to exclude vowels and abbreviations. Of course, there’s an option for URL shortening, and also for acronyms.
Sure, Trimit could be useful for shortening a text message you want to keep down to just one message instead of three, or for getting that tweet down from 300 to 140 characters. However, it can also be practical for figuring out the important parts of a longer article. Trimit supposedly will suck out the important content and put it in a neat little package for you so you don’t have to read that entire five-page article to know what’s going on.
As of now, the app is only available for the iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad and requires iOS 3.0 or later. Watch the video below for more info.
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