There’s a whole world of content discovery tools out there, waiting to make your life easier

An unconfirmed rumor about publishing platform Medium, a tool I am happy to use regularly, prompted me to reflect on content discovery, an absolutely fundamental feature for me and anybody else who relies on being able to access information quickly and easily.

The rumor is that Medium wants to include a Save to Medium feature that would allow readers to store longer articles from other sources to read later in its excellently designed format or share with others.

For me, Medium has gone from being the place where I publish my entries in English to a tool for content discovery, which I use systematically every morning to read the articles its recommendation system offers me.

Medium is a subscription platform, which already puts it in the minority, but for me, in addition to being proof that I am interested in anything that its founder, Evan Williams, is doing, is among the many subscriptions I pay that easily justifies its price: it not only reflects my belief that my content should be freely accessible, but also makes a bit of money for me. According to this month’s metrics, 57% of the authors who wrote at least one story for Medium earned income, 7.4% earned more than one hundred dollars, and every month there are several cases of…