This is a pretty simple method for saving and organizing your Steemit posts to a local drive; it is a reposting, the first time I Steemed this was 4 months ago
- First, you are going to download and install Zotero, a reference database piece of freeware. The benefits and webiste for Zotero can be found here:
Zotero for scholars, students, and archivists - a free tool for organizing and citing your research
You are going to be using Zotero 5.0, which is a standalone application; ignore references to previous versions which could be used as various browser add-ons.
Next, you will need to install the Zotero connector, depending on your browser
https://www.zotero.org/download/Once you are set up, you can save your posts (or going off topic, any other posts on the web you would like to save to your own hard drive in an organized fashion) to Zotero with one click from your browser (you have to keep Zotero open)
You will see a message in the lower right corner (you may have to refresh the page and try again, if the page doesn't add the first time)
You will see your item has been added to the database
IF you plan on using this entry as a cite/reference, you'll have to change the relevant entries manually: Author, Creator, etc. If you just need to archive, you are fine. This saves the page, so you'll have pics and links handy, but see the next step if you would also like to save the posting markdown
You can also save the Markdown as a Note
You just select all the text, click Add in Zotero, and copy/paste ( this is a sample, the text is not the same as the post...just for illustration here)
This is what I did for this reposting of the original, just copied and pasted the Markdown from the original posting that I had saved to Zotero the first time I published it
AND you can add additional notes to record the dates you post, the other sites you post to (twitter, face book, Minds, Reddit, etc etc)
Finally, you can add tags in Zotero as well; this can help you organize your archive and make it easier to find your work
It will also help you to build your indexes, into which I'll go into some detail on my next post
I hope you find this tutorial helpful for organizing and saving your posts on your local computer for saving your Steemit posts for archiving, searching, referring to, and reposting!












