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# Thread Reader Automation
- URL: https://makoism.com/thread-reader-automation/
- Published: 2020-01-05T00:29:00.000Z
- Updated: 2020-01-05T00:29:00.000Z
- Author: Steve Makofsky
- Tags: makoism, #newsletter-makoism, #substack

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/61/8f/618f2076-e6a0-40dc-8037-06080661dee7/content/images/public/images/5d1ad431-c82d-4667-b14c-827c69a79a5c_1600x1064.jpeg)

I often hear people complain that [Twitter](https://www.twitter.com/) is total chaos. To be honest, I really enjoy using it daily as a source of technology discovery, but it didn’t really become effective and under control until I started to move people off my timeline and into curated “[lists](https://help.twitter.com/en/using-twitter/twitter-lists)”.

For example, here’s a few:

- **Portland** — restaurant's, local news, things going on in the area
- **Swoosh** — work colleagues
- **Friends** — close friends
- **Health** — all aspects around health, physical fitness, health devices, etc
- **InfoSec** — security twitter can be incredibly noisy (with both good and bad content), so I have moved it off to something to read when I **want** to, not when its in the timeline.
- **MindChangers** — people that really have great topics/posts that make you stop and research, etc.
- **WorkFlow** — apps and tools feed

My timeline is light, often focused, and is enjoyable to read.

One of the tools that I really enjoy using [ThreadReaderApp](https://threadreaderapp.com/) — it’s premise is simple: “**Transform Twitter Threads into a Readable Page**”. Often people posts long content over a series of multiple tweets (which have a max length of 280 characters), and ThreadReaderApp pulls all of these into a **single** page that you can bookmark, or store as a PDF (with subscription).

Unfortunately, they don’t offer an iOS app at this time, but I’ve put together a useful Shortcut which you can “share” a twitter link with, and it will automatically unroll the multiple feeds and store it on your ThreadReaderApp account.

To recreate it, create a new shortcut as follows:

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/61/8f/618f2076-e6a0-40dc-8037-06080661dee7/content/images/public/images/e01e5c56-907c-4afe-9264-d12d506781f0_1125x2436.png)

Once you have built the shortcut, you can then use the sharesheet to send over a URL to ThreadReader to add to unroll to your collection.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/61/8f/618f2076-e6a0-40dc-8037-06080661dee7/content/images/public/images/6d7875da-9eba-4f5e-b65a-9f82549bef18_1600x1202.png)

Enjoy!