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 N
T 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 the
process

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 the
form

click Next step if done,

You will see the Privacy and Terms
window,

Scroll Down

Click I Agree

And you are done!

Click Continue to Gmail

And this is now your Gmail

Create a Pocket account

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's
extension

Now you are ready to save!

But before that, let's create
a recipe at IFTTT

Create an IFTTT account

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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 creating
an 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 to
confirm

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 spreadsheet
action

Type in your desired
Spreadsheet 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 of
contents to schedule on.
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Click the Pocket icon in your
browser's extension to save your
chosen page
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If you want to add tags, type in
here
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After saving a few websites,
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Go to your Google drive to view
your 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 and
click 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 see
little preview images
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Don't edit this data sent by
Pocket and IFTTT.
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Instead, we will create a new
sheet.
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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 add
headlines
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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 across
and down the sheet.
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We will customize the sheet to
optimize it.
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Add a Title to column G to K
like this
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For Facebook post, type in
=concatenate(H2," ","|"," ",B2," ","|"," ",G2)
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For Twitter post, you can add
Titles 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 post
in cell K2 by typing in =LEN(J2)
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To replicate the formulas you
have made,
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Click and hold the blue box and
drag it down
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Now you can schedule your
queue of post in batches.
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Hope you had fun with this
step by step guide.
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And helped you to maximize
your productivity.
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Share it to help others too!
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