The Activity section shows the highlights of users you follow, the weekly roundup (list of articles weekly curated for you), and who is following you. Shuffle is cute but not entirely useful for my use case short and In progress are good options it will be great to see when we can filter by content type (video, podcasts, etc.), but tags bring some magic to content organization. Sorting articles is at the moment has four options ( Shuffle, Short, In Progress, and Tags).
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The other sections are Favorites, Recently Viewed, and Archive - their function is self-explanatory. Still, it is helpful to revisit your highlights ( although they do share with Readwise and Notion, more on that later). You then have access to the other sections, Highlights (where you can see articles you highlighted with the number of highlights and tags) - weirdly, there is no action possible inside highlights. The default tab is your Queue, and here - due to the number of tabs - it works as a drop -bottom menu - it's an intelligent choice and great design. The UI looks great (both in IOS and IPadOS), super smooth, works as it should, has fluid animations, everything is great to watch and smooth to use, and the Library is not an exception. You can like or reply to a comment, save an article, add to favorites or hide (by clicking ".") - but as a swiping action, you only can save the article. Still, you can occasionally find interesting content here. In this section, you can check curated articles with comments from other users curated by Matter - it's a bit of a rabbit hole. dispose of, not everything you follow or save is worth it, and the Inbox workflow is excellent to do this. This section helps you separate what you want to keep vs. If you add via IOS share extension or a browser extension, it will go directly to your Queue, making the sorting workflow less straightforward. The content you add should show up here, but for now, only content you forward or subscribe via email does. This section also displays the content you have in your Inbox - you can click on an article, or you can sort then by swiping (left to add to Queue or right to remove). Whenever an author adds content, it will show in your Inbox. The first option to action in the Inbox is to add (so you can later see and filter) some Authors you like. Still, you have a lot of ways to get content inside Matter, and their roadmap does seem to include most of the lacking features. The number of authors is limited, and you cannot add an RSS feed by yourself (you need to ask the Matter to do it). What about Youtube? Or Podcasts?įollowing an author adds some value, author thumbnails look good, and Matter makes it easy to follow an author and get notifications. In theory, it seems like a lot, right? You will quickly see that it is not. You can subscribe to newsletters (with your matter email address), forward them to matter, add content via Chrome, Safari, or Firefox extensions, or subscribe to authors inside the app. Matter does help with that with our content TOFU (Top of the funnel). However, the top of the funnel is still to be solved - how do we select the suitable sources and have a quick and efficient process to sort this content (to decide what to read now, later, or never). We could debate that this process does not need social features (and one of the apps that could help on content overload, Matter, does focus on this). That means unsubscribing to newsletters, containing scrolling on an infinite feed of social media, actually curating what they read, see or listen to.ĭavid Perell makes a good point in a recent article when he says," Measuring your learning with a scorecard of consumption is anxiety-inducing.", and Cal Newport also reinforces the value of "Slowing down," but what does that mean? How do we slow down? How do we curate our content consumption? Do not get me wrong both apps have qualities worth mentioning if we are in the early 2010s, but, IMHO, both are very far from 2020s incumbents like Superhuman, Clickup, or Notion, but hope is not lost.Ĭontent overload might be a self-fulfilling prophecy we accumulate multiple sources of content, save things for later that we never get to read (ever), and most users don't stop to filter what is essential for their current goals. 5 min Photo by Niklas Ohlrogge / Unsplashįor a long time, Pocket and Instapaper have ruled the read-later space, not because they have a perfect product fit for modern content consumers, but because there was no better alternative available.
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