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Three beautiful, free SaaS Platforms for your writing portfolio

Yes we love you Medium, but there are also some cool, effortless online places available for writers to expand their reach.

Paper notebooks are so v0.1

Establishing your online writing portfolio is no easy task — firstly you have to be organized enough to have one. At this point, it’s a terse but pertinent moment to mention that writing is often a messy task — deadlines, note taking everywhere, functional caffeine use, building up momentum to allow creativity to flourish, 100% distraction levels during the research process…and the rest.

For journalists at least, it was the horrifically titled (and priced!) Muck Rack, or nothing. Thankfully, there were a few SaaS founders out there who were smart enough to disrupt this space and make it work — beautifully.

Oh and you don’t have to only be a journalist to use these — they’re very fluid, free to use, and have UXs to die for.

Here’s the top 3 that have stood the test of time:

1. Clippings.me

Clippings.me is quietly huge. Advocated by journalism schools, writer-influencers and even the University of Oxford, this platform is a bandwidth-light, but perfectly formed portfolio tool for writers to essentially create a signpost page quickly, pointing to all the best places they’ve written for online. It’s not exclusively used by journalists — marketers and technical writers like myself use it too.

It’s free and faster than digging in to develop your own website.

 

Clippings.me also looks really nice too — transitioning to a portfolio approach as opposed to a personal website approach is certainly easier to maintain. It’s not just for links, though — you have the option of uploading PDFs, screenshots and snippets, and images. This is a good thing: there is always a risk that you could lose your work if a domain ceases to exist, so the practice of exporting pages to PDF is a good one anyway. You get up to 10 links for free, and more and you’ll need to upgrade.

There is a pro version of course, which allows a huge amount of links, and also allows you to be featured as a writer. For the pros, there is a marketplace-style side of this platform could also help sustain your writing business, as it invites commissions and publishers to seek pitches and go on a writer search.

 

2. JournoPortfolio

JournoPortfolio is exactly what is says on the tin — a writer’s portfolio bookmarking site, aimed directly at journalists. There’s no reason a writer can’t use this free tool too; although it might be confusing indeed if you are not a journalist by trade. Meh — the good news is the UX has such flexibility and ease-of-use that you can simply have the portfolio simply say your name at the top, and display the links, titles and blurbs exactly as you wish.

Mine is over here as an example:

The flexibility also includes being able to drag and move your articles around the page, so you can put what you’re most proud of right at the top. You get 10 links for free (again including PDFs and media uploads as well as links) — and more, and you’ll need to upgrade. The Pro features allow you to have your own website and regular backups, which brings you closer again to having your own website.

 

3. Wakelet

Wakelet is a SaaS platform… I think. Possibly? See, they’re free to use — and have been for many years now.

Same Winona, same. I’m wondering if that’s because they’ve got eyes on Pinterest (which of course is a visual, internally-networked search engine and not SaaS, cue the in-fighting), but well soon see…

Is Wakelet a SaaS platform or a visual search engine, like Pinterest?

Wakelet is a curation and scrap-booking tool which aims to make curating materials from all over the web as seamless as possible. It’s a fantastic way for writers, and even community managers and teachers to create interactive bookmarks and a library of resources. It can even be used to encourage content creation / user generated content.

It’s been around for years. Wakelet has a primarily UK audience, which seems to be quite loyal. For example, huge brands collate their achievements, blog posts and links to webinars there as a ‘permanent’ resource — well, writers do too — particularly content writers and those engaged in copywriting.

 

Example of Wakelet’s functionality with their Chrome extension.

In the wake of the 2020 pandemic, like many platforms that support content production, these three curation platforms have seen massive uptake by writers.

One of the most compelling facts is that teachers and students across the globe have also, like writers, been looking for free spaces to collect and share lessons and lesson plans, notes, homework submissions and more. All three are worth checking out, if only for the curiosity factor.

 

And there we have it — 3 x free, beautifully designed SaaS curation platforms for writers to collate links to their various materials in the wonderful WWW.

 

 

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