That’s kind of ironic obviously given the fact that Flipboard was created for the iPad.īe aware though that synchronization doesn’t work well between desktop and app, when creating my magazine I’ve had to logout on my iPad and login again because it would not automatically refresh after making changes from my desktop. Personally, I find the latter easier to use, mostly because of the option to change the order of the stories. The first is via the Flipboard app on your iPad or iPhone and the second is via the editor. There are two ways of going about creating a Flipboard magazine. Still, it’s kind of cool to assemble things you find beautiful or interesting and make them into a mobile magazine, so let’s have a look at how to do this. And even doing that isn’t as user friendly and intuitive as one would hope. You can choose articles, photos and videos and more or less decide on the order you want them in and you can determine the photo for the cover, but that’s about it. In that sense these magazines aren’t that different from the pinboards on Pinterest.Īlso, the editing possibilities for these magazines are very limited. So, if you were interested in all things Mac for instance, you’d create a magazine once called ‘All things Mac’ and then you’d keep adding to it. Flipboard magazines aren’t periodical for example, they’re created once and then you keep adding to them (and deleting older entries if you want). Secondly, the word magazine is a bit deceptive here. That’s because usually most of the content you use won’t be your own, but content from others you ‘curate’ into a magazine.
First of all, create is not really the right word here, it’s actually curating. So let’s dig a little deeper into creating such a Flipboard magazine. But in the beginning of this year, they opened up the option for users to create their own magazines and that gave Flipboard a whole new dimension. Originally, Flipboard was ‘just’ a reader, albeit a nice one.
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