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    <description>How to keep context across Claude, ChatGPT and the rest: memory, Markdown notes, MCP, and running more than one brand with AI.</description>
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      <title>Instagram Carousel Template: Layouts and Fill-In Copy</title>
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      <title>Claude Connectors: Add an MCP Server in 2 Minutes</title>
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      <description>Claude connectors link Claude to outside tools through MCP. What they are, which plans have them, how to add a custom one, and a worked example.</description>
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      <description>ChatGPT can use remote MCP servers as tools. What MCP means in ChatGPT, where to add a custom server, what can block you, and a worked example.</description>
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      <description>Five carousel makers compared: Canva, Contentdrips, aiCarousels, PostNitro and Karou. What each one does, what the free plan allows, and who it suits.</description>
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      <description>Carousel design rules for Instagram and LinkedIn: type size, fonts, contrast, color, margins and slide rhythm. With font pairings and a pre-post checklist.</description>
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      <description>Carousel ads on Facebook and Instagram: how many cards, what size, what to put on each card, how to set one up in Ads Manager, and how to make the images fast.</description>
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      <description>How to use a Canva carousel template for Instagram and LinkedIn: pick one, lock it, fill it fast, export right. Plus when an AI chat renderer is quicker.</description>
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      <title>aiCarousels vs PostNitro: Which One, and a Third Option</title>
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      <description>aiCarousels vs PostNitro compared: how each makes carousels, free plan limits, scheduling, and when an AI chat renderer like Karou is the better fit.</description>
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      <title>LinkedIn Carousel Maker Free: 6 Options and Their Limits</title>
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      <description>Free LinkedIn carousel makers compared: what each free plan allows, where the watermark sits, and one that renders the PDF inside Claude or ChatGPT.</description>
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      <description>A ChatGPT carousel prompt that writes slides that fit: hook, one idea per slide, a close. Plus how to get finished PNGs and a PDF back in the same chat.</description>
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      <description>A repeatable way to convert a thread or newsletter issue into a carousel: what to keep, what to cut, the slide map, and the prompt for Claude.</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:00:00 -0000</pubDate>
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      <description>What a LinkedIn document post is, how to upload a PDF carousel, what to write in the post body, and the mistakes that make a document post sink.</description>
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      <description>The PDF dimensions, page ratio, file size and slide count that make a LinkedIn carousel readable on the phone, and how to export one without a design tool.</description>
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      <description>The Instagram carousel sizes that hold up in 2026: 1080 x 1350 portrait, square, 9:16 for stories, plus safe zones and how mixed ratios get cropped.</description>
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      <description>The prompt, slide structure and formats that make a carousel work when Claude writes it: hook first, one idea per slide, a closing slide, 4:5 for Instagram.</description>
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      <description>Instagram allows 20 slides; six to ten is where carousels get finished and saved. Why that range works, when to go shorter or longer, and how to cut a long one.</description>
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      <title>Connect Karou to Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor</title>
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      <description>Forty carousel hook ideas grouped by mechanism: the number, the mistake, the contrarian claim, the question, the confession and the promise.</description>
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