Why Creatorzel reads the pin from the page

Many scheduling tools ask you to copy a pin into their editor. You write the idea in your notes, paste the title, description and link into a second tool, and upload the image again. Now the pin exists in two places, and the two copies start to drift apart the moment you edit one of them.

Creatorzel takes the other route. The pin lives in one place, a row in your Notion calendar, and that row is what gets published.

What the row contains

A row holds a title, an image, a board, a description and a link, plus the date and time and a Status. When the time on a Scheduled row arrives, Creatorzel publishes that pin. There is no second editor to open and no second copy to keep in step.

Compare that with the copy-and-paste routine. There, when a pin looks wrong you have to work out which copy is the real one. Here there is only the row, so there is only one place to look.

What it means for your files

The image stays on the row in Notion. When a pin is due, Creatorzel downloads it only for as long as it takes to publish, then deletes it. Creatorzel does not build up a library of your pictures.

What it means for your accounts

To publish, Creatorzel needs access to your Pinterest account. That access is stored encrypted, and you choose the boards when you connect the account.

What the row tells you afterwards

The same row is also your record. Once the pin is published, Creatorzel writes the status back to the row and keeps the link to the pin. The plan and the result sit side by side, so you don't have to search Pinterest to find out whether something went out.

The catch

This design asks you to be tidy in Notion. If a row is missing its image or its board, there is no second copy to fall back on. A row with no image is a row with nothing to publish.

So read each row once before you flip it to Scheduled. Check the title, the image, the board, the description, the link, and the date and time, in that order, and set Status last.

We think the trade is a good one. A calendar you actually keep in Notion beats a scheduler you have to keep in sync with it.

It also means this approach suits people who already plan in Notion. If your plan lives in a spreadsheet or on paper, a copy-and-paste scheduler may feel more natural, and that is fine.

Questions about your data

For anything about how your data is stored, or to have your account deleted, write to privacy@creatorzel.com. The Privacy Policy and the GDPR page go through the details.