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7 Clicks to a LinkedIn Feed That's Actually Useful ๐คฏ
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Hey #FaciliFam, Let me take a wild guess. Your LinkedIn feed sucks. ๐ Generic posts from people you don't know, half of it AI-written. The people you actually want to hear from? A few posts if you're lucky. Sound familiar? ๐ LinkedIn isn't just entertainment (he said, posting 7 memes a week). It's where your clients post before they hire you, where past participants share what they built, and where the facilitators you learn from share their good stuff. Miss that and you miss work. So stop scrolling it. Start checking it. This is the workaround I've been using for two years. Takes only a few minutes to set up. ๐ The bookmark trickBuild a LinkedIn search filtered to people you pick. Bookmark it. Open it, and you get their posts, newest first. No algorithm in between. One bookmark per group. Clients. Facilitators. Your team. Set it up๐๐ฝ Start with this template. Filters are already set. You just add your people.
1. Click All filters at the top
2. Under From member, click + Add a person
3. Type a name, pick it from the dropdown, repeat up to 20 people
4. Hit Show results
5. Bookmark the URL
6. Open it whenever you want ๐ค
Works in any browser. Not in the LinkedIn app. The page pulls the newest posts every time it loads, so you set it up once and forget it. โน๏ธ 3 things that helpName your bookmarks properly"LinkedIn Clients", "LinkedIn Facilitators". You'll be opening these daily. Organize them in one folderChrome, Safari, whatever you use. Adding people later changes the URLIt becomes a new link, so save it again and delete the old one. I run 15 lists. Five minutes a day and I've seen everything worth seeing from the people I care about. Beats 45 minutes of scrolling through slop. ๐จ๐ฝโ๐ป My workflow๐ก Optional upgradeI keep mine in raindrop.io. Free, better than browser folders once you have more than a handful, and useful well beyond LinkedIn links. Start with folders though - no need to over-engineer this. ๐คก Enough Said |
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