Dedicated tab for brainstorming ideas#2323
Hi Publer Team,
I hope you’re doing great!
I wanted to share a suggestion that could enhance the user experience around managing drafts and ideas within Publer. I’m a big fan of the platform and find it very useful, but I noticed that the current workflow for saving and organizing draft posts could be even more streamlined.
Specifically, I really like how Buffer handles drafts and ideas, both in their desktop platform and through their Chrome extension and mobile app. They make it super easy to quickly capture ideas, and the workflow is smooth and visually engaging. I find that this approach keeps content planning flexible and creative, especially when working on the go.
Additionally, it would be fantastic if, when using labels for drafts or posts in Publer, the draft posts would visibly show the label color or icon. This would make it quicker to visually sort and manage content at a glance.
I believe these tweaks could make the content creation and planning process even more seamless and enjoyable for users.
Thanks for considering this suggestion, and thanks again for your awesome work on Publer!
Best regards,
Anna
Hi Anna, and thank you for the valuable feedback.
Great timing as we have already finished prototyping this and plan to have it developed in Q3.
Stay tuned!
I love this! great job!
Please RESTORE the feature to create draft posts without having to specify and social platform (from the Chrome extension, Android share, etc.). Now, if you don’t specify a platform, it forces me to save it as an “Idea”, but that’s a completely different workflow that’s inferior to draft posts. Just please put that feature back, thanks.
Update:
We’ve rolled out 4 new improvements to Publer Ideas:
• Multi-select ideas to apply bulk actions
• Reorder columns to match your workflow
• Get notified when an idea is assigned to you or when you’re mentioned in notes
• Improved media preview inside Ideas
List view is coming next. Stay tuned. ⏳
I would like to share some product feedback regarding the new kanban :
First, I do not really understand the purpose of the Title field. It seems to automatically become the beginning of the post content. If that is the case, I do not see much value in it. Either the field should be removed, or it should be completely separated from the post content so that users can freely use it to identify a draft internally.
Second, I do not see the benefit of the text formatting features. Most social networks (especially LinkedIn) do not support rich text formatting anyway, so this adds complexity without bringing much value.
The paragraph blocks that can be moved up and down are also confusing. In practice, a simple copy-paste workflow works better. The interface gives the impression that there is a line break between blocks, but visually it is not always clear, which makes editing harder.
Another issue is that when converting an idea into a draft, the whole text often needs to be reformatted again. This adds extra work instead of saving time.
At the moment, the feature makes the drafting workflow more complicated than before. For my use case, it is unfortunately not really usable in its current form.
Hi Arnaud,
Thank you for sharing your feedback.
With the latest updates, the Title field is optional, so you can simply ignore it if you don’t need it.
The formatting options are mainly there for flexibility. For example, headers appear in bold and can help teams organize content while drafting.
If you’re still experiencing issues with formatting when converting an idea into a draft, please share a short screen recording with us at [email protected] so we can investigate further.
Thanks again for the feedback.
Update: With List View now live, Publer Ideas is fully refined.
All improvements have now been rolled out across the web platform and mobile app.
Explore the updated guide for the full walkthrough:
https://publer.com/blog/plan-collaborate-and-turn-ideas-into-posts-in-one-place-with-publer/
Thanks for the feedback, we hope you enjoy the upgrade.