Question 1

What manual work in Curated can be automated?

Accepted Answer

The core Curated workflow - collecting links, filtering them, adding commentary, and publishing - is manual by design. However, you can automate the upstream link collection by feeding sources from RSS feeds, web monitoring tools, or notification systems directly into your Curated workflow, reducing the time spent hunting for content. You can also automate the downstream distribution by sending published digest notifications to communication platforms or triggering follow-up actions in other business tools when a digest publishes.

Question 2

How does data move between Curated and other tools?

Accepted Answer

Curated publishes digests as emails to subscribers and generates web-hosted pages, but it has limited native integration points for pulling data in or pushing data out to other systems. Links and content typically move into Curated through manual curation or via RSS imports, while published digest URLs and email delivery are the primary outputs. To connect Curated digests to downstream tools like CRMs, databases, or communication platforms, you will need to capture the published digest link or metadata and route it through an automation platform.

Question 3

What breaks when automating Curated workflows?

Accepted Answer

Curated's strength is the human curation step, which cannot be automated - automations that attempt to auto-publish digests without human review risk sending low-quality or off-brand content to subscribers. Additionally, digest metadata (publish dates, subscriber segments, custom URLs) may not be fully exposed to external systems, making it difficult to trigger conditional logic or detailed reporting based on digest performance. Links added to Curated must already exist as valid URLs; automation workflows that generate or validate links before adding them to Curated require pre-processing in another tool.

Question 4

How should I organize Curated to support automations?

Accepted Answer

Structure your Curated account with clear digest channels or topics if the platform supports segmentation, so incoming link feeds can target the right digest buckets. Establish a consistent naming convention and tagging system for digests and sources so that automation platforms can identify and route published digest data accurately downstream. Maintain a documented list of your digest URLs and subscriber segments outside Curated so automations can reference them when triggering on publish events or when routing digests to other tools.

Automate the manual work in Curated

Curated by the numbers

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Duplicating content across Curated editions

Tracking Curated subscriber engagement manually

Updating Curated content sources by hand

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What you can automate in Curated

Add favorited Pocket articles to Curated

Add new Curated publication subscriber to a Mailchimp list

Add new Mailchimp subscribers to a Curated publication list

Add saved Feedly articles to Curated

Get Slack notifications for new collected Curated links

Post Curated published issue links on Facebook

Tools commonly connected to Curated

Curated Automation questions

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