The Swipe Files Strategy for Part Time Creators

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useHooks(🐠)

Don't be so literal about what a swipe file is — pay attention to the spirit of the thing. Mental Models are swipe files of perspectives to analyze given situations. A tweet thread of frameworks is a swipe file of playbooks. My Cheatsheets are swipe files of code, as is useHooks:.

#Development Tools #Developer Tools #JavaScript Framework 20 social mentions

Swipe files lend themselves to marketing and design, because by their very nature they are visual and public. Here is swipefile.com, with just a couple paragraphs of commentary on each example:.

#Marketing #Software Marketplace #Advertising 5 social mentions

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Marketing Examples

Yes, people hate popups. Yes, they work. Yes, you can blanket it with social proof, like Harry Dry does on MarketingExamples.com.

#Marketing #Digital Marketing #Cheat Sheets 37 social mentions

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Little Big Details

Wow, look at you! Email newsletter, Auth, Storage, Community... you're starting to need some serious software now around your swipe file, and you STILL need to figure out your social media distribution. You don't HAVE to have a separate platform — I often use my own Twitter as a flexible social Swipe File, and Little Big Details is a Swipe File hosted on Tumblr with distribution, storage, and social features built in.

#Productivity #Design Tools #CSS 3 social mentions

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Klart

The work gets a lot simpler and faster when you use a tool that is designed for capturing swipe files. Here's Klart:.

#Design Tools #Color Gradients #Color Tools 1 social mentions