Mappery Social Inbox

A lot of the posts that we share on Mappery come via our social feeds at Mastodon and Bluesky as either an @ message or a hashtag #MapsintheWild. Up till now our workflow to turn the social posts into blog posts on Mappery was something like this: Check the note that we keep of where we finished in our last posting session Search the social platform for the next @ or # Download the image in the social post Copy the text of the post if it is relevant to quote Start a new post in our WordPress dashboard Upload the image to WordPress Paste in any content from the social post Finish editing the post, save the draft Schedule for publishing Repeat! This workflow worked but it was tiresome, relatively slow and open to user error. Today I wondered whether I could build a tool that would simplify and speed up this workflow.I started out by brainstorming the project brief for the tool with Claude Chat, a serious of iterations helped me to define the project well, reduce the technical complexity…