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The Ultimate Guide to Creating Faster, More Effective Blog Posts With Evernote. Michael Hyatt is the author of The New York Times bestseller, Platform: Get Noticed in a Noisy World. He is also the founder of Platform University and the massively popular course, 5 Days to Your Best Year Ever. His blog gets almost a million page views a month. This is how he uses Evernote to create and publish his blog posts with Evernote. Evernote is one of the most versatile tools in my toolbox. I use it to store everything. What you may not know is that it is especially valuable as a blogging tool. Over the course of my 11-year career as a blogger, I think I have tried almost every app available. However, I keep returning to Evernote. Why? 1. I have found Evernote indispensable in accomplishing the six most common blogging tasks.

Task 1: Organizing I have written extensively about how I organize Evernote.The bottom line is I don’t use a lot of notebooks. I start with one notebook called, “MH Content Resources.” I use the following tags. Post ideas: These are raw, undeveloped ideas. Quick Guide. In this tutorial, we’ll guide you through adding links to your theme’s description that often displays in the header or sidebar.

Step one: Open the “edit theme” page 1. Log into Tumblr and click on the ’human’ cog icon and Select your blog from the right-hand column. 2. Click the Edit appearance option. 3. Step two: changing your description I’ve highlighted the box where you can add your description. To add to your description, simply type something in the box. When you want to add links, copy and paste this into your box: <a href=" to Quick Guide</a> Replace “ with the website you want people to go to (make sure you include the part, or the link won’t work), and replace “Link to Quick Guide” with words you want people to see.

For example, in my site description box, I’ve added two links to a Tumblr blog, and Instagram account: Now, when I open my Tumblr blog, you can see the links: Other tips. The unofficial, beginner's guide to tumblr. Advertisement Table Of Contents Introduction §1–What’s the deal with tumblr? §2–Let’s make a tumblr! §3–How do we use our tumblr? §4–What do tumblrs look like? §5–How to make our tumblr look fancy §6–Why is the search feature so bad on tumblr? §7–Tools for managing your tumblr §8–Going forward with your tumblr §9–Editing your tumblr’s theme Introduction By now you’ve heard of tumblr. Do you want to try to understand it?

Also, I’ll try to keep this consistent. tumblr spells their name with a lowercase ‘t’, so I will use a lowercase ‘t’ to spell their name throughout the manual. 1. So, you’ve heard of tumblr, but aren’t sure what it is? For however bizarre it is, it’s also extremely important. This manual will be divided into two parts, each of which will be woven throughout the manual. 2. For the most part, tumblr is extremely easy to use. Here’s the first thing you’ll see when you go to tumblr.com: I’ve made a tumblr to help us get started. Whoops, that username is already taken! Congratulations! 3. Posting. Basics How do I post something to Tumblr? Ready to post something to your blog? Grand. Nothing is quite so invigorating as a fresh post. On the web: You've got two buttons to choose from. At the top of your dashboard, you can click the icon of the type of post you want to make.Or, from anywhere on your dashboard, you can click the blue compose button that's always hanging out in the upper right-hand corner.

On mobile: Just tap the blue compose button at the bottom of your screen. I have a few blogs. On the web: In any post form, click the arrow next to your blog name. On mobile: In any post form, tap your blog name. How do I post a photo? You’ve got several options, my little friend. On the web: First, open a new photo post form. Click the camera icon to upload images from your computer.Drag files directly from your desktop into the post form.Or click the globe icon to post a photo from a specific URL. Another tip: Take a selfie using your webcam by clicking on the li’l smiley face.

Sure! Tips. The Beginner's Guide to Tumblr. Tumblr is a micro-blogging platform that churns out millions of posts on a daily basis. There are currently 108.6 million blogs on Tumblr, which might seem intimidating to anyone not already using it. Tumblr could be useful to you for many reasons, depending on what you're looking to get out of it, for example, inspiration, scrapbooking, communication or a portfolio. The site is a mix of bloggers, brands and tastemakers. But to keep it simple, there are essentially two types of bloggers on Tumblr: those who create original content and those who curate, or re-blog posts.

Depending on how you want to utilize the platform, this guide will help you move from a Tumblr novice to power blogger. 1. Getting Started Tumblr registration is simple: You only need an email address, password and username. With Tumblr, you can change your URL later, so if you absolutely hate it down the road, that can be fixed — but keep in mind that change will affect SEO. 2. 3. Here are a few of our favorite themes: 4. 5.