"Ever since we started it, Backpack has been what we use for organizing the Rails Envy podcast every week," writes Jason Seifer of Rails Envy, a two person team that codes, blogs, and podcasts about Ruby and Rails.
Jason emailed to tell us how it works:
Gregg and I each figure out our own stories to do for the podcasts and do a short write-up in Backpack. Since it's essentially a rails news podcast, we have to keep organized the stories we get and attempt to not step on each other's toes.This is why Backpack is so great. For each podcast we set up a different page in Backpack with the title as the episode number. From there, we create a note for each story. We add these throughout the week or when we clear out our RSS readers.
When it's time to create the blog post about it, it's really easy to go in and copy the headlines and URLs and paste them back in to Textmate (where we have snippets set up to make creating the blog post really easy).
We're loving the new multi-user Backpack. We don't have to worry about sharing every page with each other. It also makes it a snap to see at a glance what stories the other person has added since we last logged in.
Every story is a note with the headline, a write up, and a link to the article.
More screens after the jump.
The Newsroom lets the Rails Envy team see who's been editing what quickly.
"I'm not sure how we did without the Changes page," he writes.
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