Help me snark more efficiently

June 22, 2009 8:50 AM

I need a third party Blogger app that'll help me manage draft posts. Either that, or instructions on how to do this in Blogger itself.

I keep a lot of draft posts until I can collect them into daily sets of related posts and post them, but I'm having trouble in Blogger itself identifying the ones that go together.

I tag them with keywords, but there's no way to see just the keywords as they apply to draft posts, rather than all posts. I'm not interested in whether I have existing posts tagged with X, only if I have enough draft posts tagged with X to do another set about X.

I tried tagging things with draft and removing it before I published, in hopes that I could view posts that were tagged both X and draft, but that doesn't seem to be possible, unless I'm missing it.

So, is there a third party blogging app that will work with a Blogger.Com blog, and allow me to view my tags within a certain post status, or view posts that are tagged with two different tags?

I've found Blogger's list of third party tools, but I'd rather not install and check each of them to see if they do what I need, and it's kind of specific, so isn't generally mentioned in the overview of how the product works. Is anyone using one of these apps and knows it does what I want?

posted by jacquilynne to computers & internet (6 comments total)

Mac or PC?
posted by Happy Dave at 9:35 AM on June 22

PC.
posted by jacquilynne at 9:36 AM on June 22

Windows Live Writer is truly outstanding.

I'm not sure if this will 100% do what you want, but there's a large number of plugins you can download which may well do it if its not right out of the box.
posted by kaydo at 9:02 PM on June 22

I'm not interested in whether I have existing posts tagged with X, only if I have enough draft posts tagged with X to do another set about X.

I suggest you change the way you tag your drafts. Instead of tagging a draft "green", tag it "Draftgreen". Then once you are ready to publish them, change them all to the non-draft version of the tag.
posted by soelo at 11:47 AM on June 23

That's a good thought if I can't find a software solution. Since I tag everything with 4 or 5 tags it'd be kind of a pain in the ass, but it would work.
posted by jacquilynne at 12:22 PM on June 23

I've had success with w.bloggar, which despite it's weird name, is a pretty usable, free desktop app that connects well with Blogger and a bunch of other services.

Download here.
posted by Happy Dave at 3:14 AM on June 25