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RE: How I curate posts in the Steem Links Community
This is great!
Makes me think a checklist tool might be a really helpful tool for Steem Linkers! I've wanted to build a tool for generating a post (especially useful for mobile, if I could do it), amd maybe this would be a good iteration on top of an MVP.
I used Netbeans to build a rudimentary java/Swing form up to the point where I can fill out the fields and generate the markdown/html code and copy/paste it into the web browser.
Next step is to figure out how to post it through the API. Not sure what's involved in that...
That's great!
I tried making a simple java program the other day with the same objective in mind. And I got stuck not knowing how to run the compiler. It was an IDE I've never used before, and I must be missing something. I've used Netbeans before though. Maybe I should get back to that instead of trying something new.
Not sure if you saw it yet, but I just posted yesterday about my work with Java from this week. I started with Eclipse, but fell back to Netbeeans.
I saw it now. It's great! Nice work on the program, too.
I've used both Eclipse and NetBeans before, and I remember NetBeans feeling easier to use as a beginner.
A generating tool with a checklist would definitely be useful. I have been thinking about trying to put together a simple java or python desktop app for my own use that could build and submit a post with six fields:
Eventually, such an app could be updated to make use of Open Graph in order to auto-populate some of those fields. It wouldn't be immediately useful for mobile use, though. You're right that this is most important there, but unfortunately, I know almost nothing about developing for mobile.
Something else that might be useful would be a "sharing service". In TheOldReader.com, they have a "Send To" option that lets you share links from your RSS feed in TheOldReader to other platforms, and it even has a way to configure sharing to your own preferred services (these and others).
How cool would it be to just do "Send To -> Steem", enter our own commentary and then let the sharing service worry about pulling the image, web site name, and excerpt from the "Open Graph" fields?