Update: If you are interested in this post, you may also like to read a later one I wrote that uses the wp plugin “Everpress”.

I’ve been, and always am, looking for ways to streamline the process of getting the things I see online or come across on my computer out into the Intertubes – usually through one of my blogs. You know, reduce the amount of steps involved between getting something from my head as idea to a digital object.

 

The problem is there’s a myriad of things I might want to capture as a blog post, from a myriad of sources and a further myriad of apps.

 

This is where Evernote excels, at capturing ‘bits’ on the fly from anywhere on your computer.

 

What I really wanted was something that worked like Evernote but could publish to a blog. I even put that very thought out across Twitter, not really thinking about what I was saying.

 

  

Of course, I couldn’t just leave it alone there for some Evernote fairy to come along and create what I wanted, and I got thinking about a way to munge a solution.

 

The answer came to me in the middle of the following night and was actually simpler than I thought as I’d alread had the majority of the puzzle solved in the process I’ve been using to get my thoughts about things I discover out onto my Lifekludger blog.

 

The process on Lifekludger is I collect things I see in a delicious account. I save the url to delicious and add as much complete thoughts about what I’m saving as posible in the notes field of delicious. I even try include urls to images and other links I’d want to use in my final blog post. I then make sure it’s tagged with a unique tag I use that flags it as a future blogpost. Then I’m done and move along to whatever I was doing.

Meanwhile, I have on my blog a plugin call wp-o-matic [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-o-matic/].

 

This is a plugin that takes any rss feed and turns each item into an individual blog post. Now, delicious is clever and can spit out a rss feed of just about anything – including a particular tag. So I setup wp-o-matic to grab the rss feed of the  special tag in my delicious account and it automagically creates plog posts in the backend of my blog. I set it so the posts are drafts, then go into my blog backend when I have time and clean up the drafts, format a little, and then publish. Sometimes if there’s a few drafts, I’ll schedule them to release in some time in the future.