Good morning Steemians! It's been quite a while since I said this... Welcome to another episode of 'Kenny's 2 Minute STEEM Tips!"

If this is your first time stumbling across this series, welcome :-) I am doing my best to cover all of the ins & outs of the Steemit world in short, digestible posts. I know there is a pretty steep learning curve for this platform, and my goal is to help flatten it out just a bit :-)

If you've got any questions about the platform, please feel free to ask them in the comments; not only will I answer them (if I can), but maybe they'll be the basis for my next episode (in which case I will mention you as the inspiration).

The Series So Far:

Today: Episode #36

SteemPeak.com -> The Replacement for Steemit.com

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Wow, episode 36. It's wild to be back here after a 4 month break from this particular project, because I felt I had sort of run out of tips to give out. Of course there are all sorts of new things going on with the STEEM blockchain, and many things coming up in the next few weeks/months (SMTs & HF20 for example), so it felt like I should probably get this going again, and I knew exactly what the next episode needed to be: @SteemPeak

SteemPeak.com is a relatively new front-end site for the STEEM blockchain, similar to steemit.com & busy.org, but better than either one, in my opinion. I want to give a shout-out to @TheMarkyMark for bringing this site to my attention 3 weeks ago with his post Why are you still using Steemit.com?

SteemPeak uses SteemConnect to log-in, same as @dTube, @dSound, and many others, offering as much security as we can really expect at this point. Basically, the site includes everything that steemit.com does, plus back-end features most of us have been using SteemD, SteemDB, and SteemWorld for, and much more. Here are some of the big highlights of SteemPeak in my opinion:

The ability to hide re-steems when looking at someone's blog!!
The ability to schedule posts
The ability to save multiple drafts & templates for posts
No mandatory "beneficiary" (most third-party sites take a cut of any content published through them)
Choose-Your-Own-Beneficiary: You can set any account to receive a cut of any post you make
You can easily see what % someone voted with, and how much $ that added to a post
When choosing a voting weight %, you can see beforehand how much $ it will add
NOTIFICATIONS!!! You actually get a little red number that shows if you have new votes, comments, rewards, etc.
2 different options for how to look at blogs (single column vs 4 column)

There's a whole lot more too, and honestly if you're already using Steemit.com, you don't have to learn much of anything new, you just have more options. Simply connect your STEEM account via SteemConnect and you're good to go!

Some Feature Examples, with Screen Shots

Here's what a blog-roll looks like with the tiled view, and you can see in the upper left the option to hide resteems

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Here's a look at the wallet's transaction history, where you have the option to filter by transaction type (including hiding all the 0.001 transactions we all get spammed with)

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This is definitely the best activity log I've found anywhere, not only giving you the whole list of things done by your account (like Steem- D, DB, and World), but letting you filter those activities as well, on the fly.

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When you go to the topics/tags page, not only can you look at a topic and sort by value or newness, but you can save topics as favorites, and access them with one click!

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How long have you been waiting for notifications? I'd say it's been about 26 months for me... The act of keeping up with incoming comments on steemit.com has been painstaking, and I often go back to look at a post and find a wonderful comment I never noticed... No more!

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Create a new post (which will automatically be saved as a draft as soon as you add anything to it), pull up all your current drafts, or make a new post from one of your templates... OPTIONS!

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Whenever you're working on a post, you'll see options at the bottom to schedule, save as draft/template, or publish. Here's a look at the scheduling pop-up.

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Here's what it looks like when you hover over the number of upvotes that a post has, making it easy to see who is supporting, how much they're supporting, and what it gives you. This one has been quite the boon when working with @TribeSteemUp votes for articles that get more than usual, or when someone gets shorted due to a curation trail follow.

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Here's a glimpse at the Dashboard, where you can see a lot of the information that used to require pulling up another site like SteemD & SteemWorld.