(When it works.)
I have no idea if it works in IE. It does work in Chrome, FireFox, and Safari.
Just grab this link right here: SavePublishing ... and drag it to your browser's bookmark toolbar.
Sharing. It's hard work. You're browsing and want to share an article. But all the sentences seem too long! Wouldn't it be great if you could find just the tweetable sentences?
Just drag this bad boy into your bookmarks bar and expect your mind to be blown: SavePublishing.
I'm told that if you cut and paste that whole thing and do something your mobile browser it will work.
- In Safari on iOS: Copy and paste the bookmarklet source code above.
- Tap the share arrow (next to the URL field in Mobile Safari) and choose Bookmark. It doesn’t matter what page you’re on… you just need the bookmark. Name it “Save Publishing” or “Twitter Thing” or something like that and tap Save.
- Once the wrong bookmark is saved with the right title, tap the Bookmarks icon (looks like a little open book) and then tap Edit.
- Find the Save Publishing bookmark you just created and remove the URL then paste in the code you copied in Step 1.
That’s it!
Or you could just add the bookmarklet to Chrome or Safari on a computer if you have iCloud or Google set up to sync your bookmarks. That would work, too.
Check out our Github repo and go BANANAS.
Paul Ford, ford@ftrain.com. It started as a joke and now it's serious and I use it all day.
Since it's open-sourced other people are helping
SavePublishing runs in your browser. It does not know who you are, or what your Twitter account handle is. It uses no cookies today. In the future it may use cookies so that your browser can remember your preferences.
Basically: It tracks how it's used, but it doesn't track who uses it.
Everyone else has web software that is going to save publishing. Why can't I have some too?