Save and share resources with the RAINDROP SIGNET manager

I have read a lot of articles and messages to follow what is going on with AI and L&D, as well as improving my educational design and other skills. For many years, I have been using brand tools to save, tag and organize useful resources. Last year, I went to the RAINDROP SIGNET manager to record links and generate blog articles to share these resources. I think each professional L&D can benefit from the use of a kind of tool to capture useful resources so that you can find them. This is one of my best tools to support my own learning. In this article, I will explain my process to save and share resources with the RAINDROP SIGNET manager.

This is not a sponsored or affiliated article – I am just a satisfied customer. You can display and search for all my Collection of more than 2,600 bookmarks on RaindropWho understands almost all the links that I have ever shared on my blog in the past 10 years in a available resource.

Save the bookmarks with RAINDROP

To start, here is my basic process for brand links with RAINDROP.

1. Read an interesting article online.
2. Highlight important points or quotes.
3. Create a raindrop sign.
4. Add a description and tags.

Raindrop has both Free and paid plans. I pay the pro plan, in part to support the tool so that it continues to be available and partly for paid features such as full text research and a private backup of my bookmarks. For $ 28 / year, it's worth it for me. However, it is always a very useful tool even free of charge.

I use the Raindrop's Firefox extension most often for bookmarking.

With the installed extension, you can highlight the text on any page. Simply select the text, right -click and choose Save strengths. The protruding facts help me to seek subjects, and I use these strengths as quotes when I share resources on my blog.

To save a link, right -click on any page and select Create a new bookmark. This lifts a window where you can add tags and a description. I write my descriptions each time I record a link, which saves me time later. As you can see in the screenshot below, my highlighting text appears with a yellow superposition.

I also have the Rindop application on my phone, which simplifies backup links even when I read something away from my computer.

Resource sharing with RAINDROP

Raindrop accelerates my process to assemble blog articles to share links. It is easy to select the links and export them so I can add them to a blog article.

1. At the start, I save all the bookmarks in a Unsecurned collection. It is essentially my signal that I have not yet shared these links on my blog.
2. Every 4 to 5 weeks, when I am ready to create a blog article, I create a new collection for this post nested under my Blog articles collection.
3. I open the non -sorted collection.
4. I export the bookmarks from the unfortunate collection to a HTML page.
5. I copy and collar all from the HTML page exported to a blog article. This export includes the link, the title, my description and the text of all the strengths.
6. I am looking for recurring themes and connections in my recorded bookmarks.
7. I add headers and reorganize the bookmarks and descriptions to group together similar resources.
8. To finish the blog post, I clean everything that is necessary and add an intro and the closure.
9. Once it is done, I move all the unkfreaded signs in the new collection for this blog post.

Raindrop HTML export is only text and links, but it works very well to copy and stick to WordPress. The screenshot below shows the export to My last links to identify links So you can compare what it looked like with the finished product.

When I went from Use of Diigo For Raindrop last year, I started using a separate collection for each blog article. I am not sure that it is actually beneficial, so I could consolidate these separate collections in the collection of blog articles. At the time, I was not quite sure of my process. I thought it would be easier to combine files later than adjusting them. In practice, I don't think I use these individual post collections a lot.

A great thing with the collections in Randrop is that you can create a public page for them. This is how I shared my Complete Signs List as a viewable page: I define this collection as a public page. You can also create specific employees for collections, which could be very useful for teams who wish to bring together resources and work together.

The tools count less than the process and consistency

Although I am really satisfied with Randrop, you can follow a similar process with other tools. I know that some people are a big fan of Evernote or concept or another tool. If you have a tool that you like and that works for you, congratulations! I think that the tool itself is less important than determining a process that you can follow in a consistent way. Of course, if a tool is clumsy or makes you difficult for you to save or share links, it creates obstacles to use it regularly and create good habits for sharing. I really wanted a tool that could highlight the text on a page, which was a key functionality for me in Randrop. Everyone I know who regularly share links like this have a kind of similar system to record links as they find them.

If you do not currently have a tool that you like to record useful links, I recommend that you try Raindrop.

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