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This is a simple way to use the Pocket Chrome Extension as a way for you to easily save articles you come across on Desktop and Mobile (via Chrome browser obviously) to an evolving Google Document which you can use for populating a weekly/daily newsletter. In the version I’ll describe, we are going to add all the entries (automatically) to Airtable as a mini-database and way to reference back/add filters/tags/etc. But you can just skip the Airtable step altogether and link Pocket Chrome Extension to Google Docs directly. I’ll be using Zapier to perform all the automatic tasks involved here.
First, you need to download the Pocket Chrome Extension. Take it for a quick spin and see what it looks like when you go to a webpage and click the Pocket icon to save a page. You’ll see the dropdown allows you to tag things. If you add a tag that isn’t in your account it will add it. So let’s go and tag a test post ‘newsletter’. Check it goes into your Pocket account.
Now head over to Zapier.com (create an account if you don’t have one already.) and make a zap. Choose Pocket from the list of apps to start with.
If you don’t want to use Airtable as a database, skip ahead.
Before you create an action item using Airtable we need to set up the table and base. Here’s what I did:
Now lets create our Action item in Zapier.
There is data in this step because we did a test on our Pocket extension before. If you have no data, then that’s why — add an article to your Pocket with the extension and use a tag you want to capture for your newsletter…for convenience I tag everything ‘newsletter’.
Side note: you can catch lots of different types of fields here. But sometimes when you map fields using one article, it won’t translate necessarily to another article written on another platform (medium, wordpress, ghost, custom site etc) — but just make sure you get the basics in…
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