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What tools do you use to curate news for your newsletter?

Hi newsletter crew,

Looking to start a newsletter in the African and Diaspora tech and innovation ecosystem as there are currently 3 I know off.

What tools do you use to curate news and your experience Witt them?
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on September 12, 2020
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    I use Airtable to organize my newsletter content section by section. Incl. links, images and people I need to tag when I re-post on social.

    You can read my bi-weekly digest here.

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      Great awesome!

      Is this similar to @gill_works workflow in Zapier?

      Does the news come to you or you go to it?

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        Michael's better :)

        Both - my contributors will submit content and I will scout content from a few credible sources.

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          OG :)

          Ok great awesome thanks for your that!

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    I publish my newsletter with Revue, so to curate content I use their Chrome extension that works like a read later link saving tool. I shared more details on my newsletter publishing process.

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      Thanks very helpful

      So you go looking for the news ...
      It doesn’t come to you?

      Eg. A workflow where all feeds come to a specific place say slack via automations .

      Or a mention on the web sends it to a dashboard ready to be selected?

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        My workflow upstream of the Revue Chrome extension is largely manual and spread across a number of news aggregation tools and sources like Feedly, Twitter, Gmail (for newsletters), and my own web surfing.

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          Very helpful @PaoloAmoroso
          Thanks a million.

          Also great English 😉

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            You're welcome.

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    I read extensively (50+ newsletters or more per week and 150+ articles) so I have plenty of content that I'm constantly saving.

    I use a mix of Pocket, Google Sheets Bookmarklets to capture the data and directly input into MailerLite

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      Amazing feat !
      150+ articles.

      So you go to the content.

      google sheets coming up a lot in the 🧵 thread.

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    For https://bootstrap.email I keep a text file where I add things I like during the week. Nothing fancy :).

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      Simplicity , the ultimate sophistication!

      Great ,how do you ensure you haven’t missed anything juicy?

      BTW lovely landing page!

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        Thanks!

        I probably miss some stuff. But I think I do a decent job finding gems. There are only so much you have time to read/listen to :).

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    I use Roam to organize content for It's Past Midnight

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    While not exactly the same end result, I think it's the same concept - I use a mix of Zapier and Feedly to automate content for myself, and have used it to automate websites built around specific content (ie: https://blog.myarcade.games/ ) - This is a more raw example that I definitely don't have perfected in any way, but you can use the tools to automate the grabbing of content, sorting it into buckets/categories, and then organizing it however you see fit to prep it to be exposed in a newsletter, etc.

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      Thanks for the contribution.

      Yes ! The same concept.

      Has it improved SEO ?
      I mean content curation like what you do for arcade games?

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    I don’t really use any tools per say, but I do have a a google sheet template that I use to organize my newsletter with, and for links, I just save everything I potentially want on my newsletter to the Bear App.

    I’m not a big browser extension person, I absolutely hate clutter, so I keep a very minimalist chrome browser, and I prefer sheets.

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      Got you on that!

      Organized in themes I guess?