Folder watch pipelines
Point a pipeline at folders on your machine and every new file that lands there becomes a campaign on the next check. The Directories tab watches the paths you choose, reads the file types you pick, and turns each arrival into channel-ready content without a paste or upload step.
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A closer look at Folder watch pipelines
Why you need this
How it changes your marketing workflow
The material you would post is usually already on disk — a folder of release screenshots, an export, a directory of notes — and the only thing standing between it and a published post is the manual work of uploading it and explaining what it is. A folder pipeline treats the folder itself as the input, so finishing the work is what triggers the content.
How it works
From open to result in a few steps
Add the folders to watch
The Folders tab takes any folder on this machine, with Include subfolders per folder and a live preview of what would be picked up.
Choose the file types
File types offers Markdown, text and data, images and video, plus any extra extensions you name yourself.
Decide what counts as one post
Every file is a post makes each file its own campaign; Every subfolder is a post bundles a subfolder's files into one.
Add notes and set the interval
Notes for the writer describe what lives in those folders, and the check interval runs from Every hour to Every week.
Without 1MarketingTool
The old, fragmented way vs. one local app
The hard way
The 1MarketingTool way
Key capabilities
Everything included with Folder watch pipelines
Why it matters
The payoff of having automation built into your workspace
Marketing stops being a separate step
Screenshots, release notes and exports already land in folders as part of your work — the pipeline picks them up from there instead of asking for an upload.
Pointing at a full folder is safe
Ignore files that are already there is on by default, so a folder holding 400 files does not turn into 400 campaigns the moment you save.
Half-copied folders never publish
A subfolder bundle waits until every file inside it has finished copying, so a folder still being written does not go out incomplete.
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