Comments on: Three Tools To Help Create Roundup Posts

By: DoYouDaveRamsey

DoYouDaveRamsey — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 17:09:46 +0000

3 sites I know use a google document tool…

The Wisdom Journal
Fiscal Geek
Debt Free Adventure

All have an automated round-up drop. I can’t speak for the back end process but I assume it’s smooth.

Hope this help.

Dave

By: Jason @ Redeeming Riches

Jason @ Redeeming Riches — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 04:31:00 +0000

I know I’m late to this post, but I was wondering if anyone has come across a Round Up plugin that actually drops posts into a round up format with the link etc to reduce teh work. ?

Thanks!

By: Craig

Craig — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 14:08:24 +0000

@ FFB Agreed about Evernote. Just started using it recently and love it. Great way to organize things for a weekly roundup.

By: FFB

FFB — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:40:15 +0000

I have two main ways to keep track of articles: 1) I use Google Reader for RSS and I STAR any article I like that I might want to go back and include in a round-up. It also has a great search feature if I ever want to look for a specific term in an article. 2) Evernote. I used to use Google Notebooks but since development ended on it I switched to Evernote. There are different ways you can clip a url to save it. You can even take clips of a site (I haven’t played with that yet though). What’s real nice about EN is you can access it on your desktop, online, or on your phone.

By: Do You Dave Ramsey?

Do You Dave Ramsey? — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 12:57:40 +0000

@ Ken – I’m new to this and technically challanged as well, but I’ll offer how I post links… If there’s a better way I’ll be looking for that commentary as well!

I’m using 2.7 so your details may vary…

– prepare you post as normal in the Edit Post Window
– at the top right of this window, I toggle from Visual to HTML
– I learned that if I use the Paste from Word function my HTML is much cleaner
– In a seperate window, open the page you want to link – if a post get the post page not the front page where the post happens to be today – copy this link
– Back in your Edit Page, HTML version… I have “Link” button in my tool bar – clink this
– this opens a window into which you can post your link, then click OK
- the html link code wil paste into your HTML view – click over to Visual to see how it’ll appear… I’ll then save and open a preview so I can test the link

I hope this helps!
Dave

By: Ken

Ken — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 02:02:07 +0000

I am working with Wordpress and I can’t figure out how to paste a url in a roundup post….I’m technologically challenged. Any advice is appreciated.

By: Su Prieta

Su Prieta — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 11:54:45 +0000

@ObliviousInvestor – Thanks. I’ll give it a try.

By: ObliviousInvestor

ObliviousInvestor — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 11:30:32 +0000

@Su Prieta – At the bottom of every post in Google Reader, there are a bunch of options “Add star, share, share with note” etc. The very last one is “edit tags.” Click on that, and just type in “roundup.”

Then when you go to prepare your roundup post, you can just click the “roundup” tag, and it’ll show you all of your posts. As I write the roundup post, I remove the tag from each post that I include. Once I have nothing tagged for roundup anymore, I know I’m finished.

By: Su Prieta

Su Prieta — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 22:08:03 +0000

I’ve only done two and the actual posting is the lightest work I do all week. But, I usually have to go from memory. I remember there were a couple stories I wanted to highlight and then at the end of the week I go searching. It could only be in my feed reader or on Mixx or something, but it is rather time consuming. Plus I am usually in two locations during the week, so if I wanted to flag something I’d have to be able to send it to myself through email or flag it online somewhere where I log in.

@ObliviousInvestor – how do you flag stuff on google reader? I’ve looked around for a way to flag stuff and haven’t found it. That would make my life easier.

By: Joy (from Just Plain Joy)

Joy (from Just Plain Joy) — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 22:12:55 +0000

I don’t do roundup posts because they are so time consuming…and I think most of my readers follow lots of other blogs anyways. But, I follow Simple Mom (simplemom.net) and have noticed that she used Tumblr. Anyone tried that?