Content curation-automation tool-for-beginners

A F R E E C O N T E N T C U R A T I O N

A U T O M A T I O NT O O L

F O R B E G I N N E R S

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First, we need to set up theprocess


Tools that we will be using

IFTTT Gmail Pocket


Create a Gmail account(If you already have one, go to page 15)


Go to www.gmail.com


Click create account


Next, fill up the what is ask in theform


click Next step if done,


You will see the Privacy and Termswindow,

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Scroll Down


Click I Agree


And you are done!


Click Continue to Gmail


And this is now your Gmail


Create a Pocket account(If you already have one, go to page 29)


Go to www.getpocket.com


Click Sign up with Google


A popup window will appear


Click Allow


Create your Password


The click Finish


Congrats! Your done!


Click Start Saving


Click Connect Now


A popup box appears


Click Add extension


Check this Icon in your browser'sextension


Now you are ready to save!


But before that, let's createa recipe at IFTTT


Create an IFTTT account(If you already have one, go to page 37)

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Go to www.ifttt.com

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Click Sign up

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Enter your Gmail

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Create a Password

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Then click Create account

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And you are done creatingan account!

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Let us create the Recipe!

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Click My Recipes

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Click Create a Recipe

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Click the This word

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Type in Pocket here

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Click the Pocket icon

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Click Connect

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Click Authorize


Click Done


Now we will choose a Trigger


Click the Any new item trigger


Then click Create Trigger toconfirm


Next, click the That word


Type in Google drive


Click the Google drive icon


Click Connect




Scroll down then click Allow


Click Done


We will choose an Action


Choose Add row to spreadsheetaction


Type in your desiredSpreadsheet name


Then click Create Action



Click Create Recipe

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Recipe is now made and active.

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To confirm if a recipe is active,click Check now

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Let us now build queue ofcontents to schedule on.

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Click the Pocket icon in yourbrowser's extension to save your

chosen page

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If you want to add tags, type inhere

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After saving a few websites,

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Go to your Google drive to viewyour queue

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How to view your Google drive?

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(you may skip this and go straight to page 74)


Go to your Gmail

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Look at the upper right corner andclick this icon.

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Then click the Google Drive icon

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You are now in your Google Drive

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Click the IFTTT folder

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Then the Pocket folder

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Click the spreadsheet

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Adjust the height of your rows to seelittle preview images

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Don't edit this data sent byPocket and IFTTT.

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Instead, we will create a newsheet.

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At the bottom left of your screen,click the + icon

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A sheet 2 will be created

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In sheet 2 you can now addheadlines

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Copy the data from sheet 1 by typing=SHEET1!A1 in cell A2

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Drag the blue highlighted box acrossand down the sheet.

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We will customize the sheet tooptimize it.

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Add a Title to column G to Klike this

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For Facebook post, type in=concatenate(H2," ","|"," ",B2," ","|"," ",G2)

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For Twitter post, you can addTitles like this

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Then in J2 type in =concatenate(H2,"","|"," ",G2," ","via @",L2," ",M2)

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Know the count of your Twitter postin cell K2 by typing in =LEN(J2)

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To replicate the formulas youhave made,

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Click and hold the blue box anddrag it down

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Now you can schedule yourqueue of post in batches.

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Hope you had fun with thisstep by step guide.

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And helped you to maximizeyour productivity.

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Share it to help others too!

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