The Post Curation Tool (PCT)
A couple of months ago I had the idea to create a tool that could solve my problem of finding the right posts to manually curate with the current feeds of the front-ends.
After a discussion with 
I'm not in the development team, but I do feel a bit responsible for promoting this great tool since I think it would be a very useful tool for lot of you Hivers. Especially when you do manual curation like me.
I've been posting update posts of this tool for a while and will be doing this as long as the development team keeps the updates coming.
Please let me know if you have used it already and what you think about it in the comments.
And if you haven't already; Go check it out!
https://thecrazygm.com/hivetools/pct
(or read on for the latest updates and info!)
Updates!
The team has been working on some nice updates of the PCT which makes it even more versatile.
That's why I'm sharing my opinions from my point of view as a user of the tool.
When you perform a search you now have more info in the search results. Below you see a result of my search for posts with the tag photography in a community with the word photo in it (so Photography, Photography lovers etc.)
If you have used the PCT before you might notice there is a lot more information below the search results. For instance it shows the current rewards in HBD. This way you can easily decide whether you think a post deserves some more rewards. Or maybe find those posts that are under rewarded according to you.
Next to the rewards is the word count. That's not only a value that is shown, that is also a value you can filter on.
This was one of my personal feature requests that has been implemented. When searching for cool photography posts I often had low effort blogs in my results. When I opened the link to those blogs I found out that some post were only one picture with a couple of words.
With the word count filter I now can set a minimum number of words the blogs should have. By setting this to 250, most of the low effort posts are filtered out. A great improvement! Well done, team !
For those who didn't know it yet; you can save your favorite searches as a bookmark.
Here is the link I used for the example above:
https://thecrazygm.com/hivetools/pct?author=&tag_filter=photography&body_len_min=&body_len_max=&word_min=250&word_max=&read_min=&read_max=&title_filter=&community_filter=photo&app_filter=&sort_order=desc
Mobile
Apart from using it on my laptop, I'm also using it on my mobile. What I'm using it for is to check on the posts of my Friendlymoose Photo Contest. Contestants put the tag #FPC on the posts which makes them easy to find with the PCT tool!
After performing the search I can scroll through all the entries. When you click on an entry you get a question in which front-end you would like to open it.
Requests
With the filter on minimum number of words implemented, there is another one from the list.
There are still a few requests on the list.
If there is any feature you would like to see, just let me know in the comments and I'll add it to the list as this is not my tool! It's a tool for all Hivers!
Indicators for the age of the post()
And/Or filtering of variables()
Minimal number of words(- Filtering on post rewards (
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- Filtering on age of the account (
- Filtering on language (
- Exclude filtering on subject (
(list is not ordered on priority by the way).
Donations
The development team (
If you appreciate what they do, please consider donating something. You can easily do this with one of their own tools; The TipJar (which you could also use yourself by the way!).
https://thecrazygm.com/hivetools/give/mithril.donation/2/HBD/Hive%20Curation%20Tool
If you choose to send a tip to this blog, I'll forward it to the team.
A shoutout to 
Mentions
I'm mentioning the people that have donated something to this project in the past to keep them informed about the latest updates of the tool.
If you want to be removed from this list, please let me know and I'll remove you from the list!
Use the tool!
If you haven't already, use this tool! It can really help you with your manual curation.
https://thecrazygm.com/hivetools/pct
So use the tool and spread the word!
Friendlymoose
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