Below, you can learn how to use the Itemsy newsletter creator to send out emails with inspiring link curated by you:

Finally, here is what you newsletter sign-up form would look like in action:

Set up your Itemsy account today. It’s free!

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• stop using multiple reading lists, notes, keep tens of tabs open
• always be able to go back to or find new interesting reads
• when time is right, receive my personal email newsletter

One-click save

You come across an interesting article, website or video. Simply save it for later using Itemsy Chrome or Firefox extension. Add a note to remember why you’re saving it.

Alternatively, add it to your Saved items at itemsy.com or email the link to my@itemsy.com.

Scroll through Picked for you

Feel like discovering something interesting to read? Go back to itemsy.com and check out items Picked for you.

We developed an algorithm that looks at content you like, click on, share or save and suggests what else you might find interesting.

What’s picked for you is based purely on your interests, not on how much advertisers bid on a particular link or how “clickable” it is. Suggestions get better tailored to your taste the more you use Itemsy. Needless to say, no two user’s Picked for you will be anything alike!

Personal newsletter — just for you

Don’t worry about remembering to actually go through the items you’d saved. They will be delivered to your inbox as an email newsletter. You can set it to fit your schedule, for example at 5pm on weekdays.

Start using Itemsy today. It’s free. Register at itemsy.com, download our Chrome or Firefox extension or simply email items to read later to my@itemsy.com

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This short blog post explains how to add a newsletter to your blog using Itemsy in 3 quick & easy steps.

Step 1/3

Create an Itemsy profile:

Step 2/3

Every time you post on your blog, publish the link on your Itemsy profile

Step 3/3

Share your Itemsy profile for people to subscribe to. They will receive all new posts straight to their inbox.

P.S. In case you need inspiration, that’s one interesting profile set up on Itemsy:

3 Random Wiki (3randomwiki) - I T E M S Y

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Last Friday, we launched I T E M S Y on Product Hunt with almost no preparation. We were very positively surprised by the response and wanted to share some lessons learned.

1. Great product is the single best marketing channel

It may seem like a good idea to spend time asking friends for support. But in the end it’s a numbers game and what counts is upvotes from Product Hunt regulars who visit the website every single day. So you might as well focus all your energy on making a product people want rather than spend the whole day asking your friends to create an account and upvote. It’s convincing the daily Product Hunt users that is key to success!

2. Quickly launch the most basic version of your product

This will help you in two important ways: you can launch sooner and you’re more likely to test whether your core product actually solves a real problem. If it’s unclear what your product really does, all your experiments will give ambiguous results.

Bonus: people who comment on Product Hunt are likely to request the exact features you’d already built but haven’t yet unveiled . That’s what happened to us and that’s a good place to be!

3. Your one-liner must be crystal clear

Hopefully, the above one-liner is 100% clear 😉. If someone who read just your one-liner is unable to explain to their friends what your product does, you’ve failed. Ask yourself if you would have (i) understood exactly what your product does and (ii) visited your website only having read your one-liner, nothing else. Also, fewer photos that are clear and simple is usually better. Most people will spend very little time on your PH profile.

4. People want to instantly try out your product

This obviously puts more complex products at a disadvantage but is very important. At an early stage, you want to make it as easy as possible for people to try out your product and teach you how to improve it (that’s through analytics that you carefully set up before launching, didn’t you?).

Signing up to I T E M S Y takes 10 seconds and just your email. What’s even cooler is that you actually don’t even need to sign up! Just start using it by sending links to my@itemsy.com. The way we onboard users is that everyone is already onboarded.

5. Choose the right day of week

Landing in top 5 Products of the Day is what you want. Top 5 make it to the next-day Product Hunt newsletter which is a big win. But be careful, Friday is an exception where you need to compete with Saturday and Sunday people for the Monday newsletter spot (which we learned the hard way…). On the other hand, competition for the top 5 is probably more fierce Monday — Thursday (curious, can anyone confirm?).

Final thought

Product Hunt is not a one-off effort but rather a long-term asset that brings traffic to your site. Keep it in mind and make sure it ages well.

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Whenever I’d get down to catching up on reading, I would face several 100+ long reading lists (Pocket or otherwise) which make it no easy task to decide what to pick up next:

🤔 … do I go for old content that’s potentially outdated, irrelevant that I can’t remember why I’d saved in the first place? Do I go for new content and never get round to going through the old stuff?

I asked myself: what would my ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ experience be like?

• I would like someone to take over keeping track of all the content I’d saved for later,
• I would like to have it delivered in bite-sized and thematically consistent chunks,
• I would like to have it delivered according to my schedule 😎.

That’s the experience we were going for building I T E M S Y.

Giving it a go couldn’t be easier

Step 1: Copy the link you want to save

Step 2: Email it to I T E M S Y

If you’re on mobile:

As soon as you do, your personal newsletter is underway and will be delivered to your inbox.

It will take you 10 seconds to sign up at itemsy.com

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How it works

1. You came across an interesting article, blog post, tweet, video, podcast etc. that you want to read/watch later (which happens to you all the time).
2. Email it to Itemsy (feel free to add comments: why is it interesting? where did you find it?).
3. Sit back and enjoy a customised personal newsletter delivered straight to your inbox.

Why

🤯 All those reading lists and notes you’re currently using are getting too long.

☕ It should be up to you, not a newsfeed algorithm, when and how you consume content.

🏝 Switch to just dropping everything onto Itemsy and don’t worry about anything else.

Sign up at https://www.itemsy.com/

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