So when I was initially introduced to Flipboard on my iPad, I was quite excited about the idea. Your own iPad magazine. Awesome! At the time it turned out that you can only add articles from already established Flipboard recommended sites. Which was okay, but got boring after only a read or two.
I wanted to add my OWN articles – the stuff that I’M interested in. So then later I started recommend Feedly. Feedly is awesome in that it uses RSS to generate posts. Nice for website owners to automate their post advertising and nice for readers interested in specific topics.
However, upon some investigation, Flipboard is not so bad after all. It’s actually awesome!
After you get over their initial signup process where you add a bunch of recommended ‘Pics’ you can actually go and make your own magazine! It is almost like a combination of Pocket and Feedly. You add articles manually, from any source on the web and then display it in a nice readable way. What is also nice is that you can add other Flipboard account holders to also add posts to your magazine, ‘Flip’ (share) directly from one magazine to your own or share articles via your favourite social media account. Even NextScripts’ SNAP has a feature where you can automatically post your newest WordPress articles directly to one of your Flipboard magazines.
Up to date the easiest way to add articles to your magazine(s) is to use Chrome’s + Flip It extension.
Flipboard is a very nice way to follow content that you are interested in – and it’s free!
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