Face Facts — Digital Round Up | #2
Gobs of information sits in the cloud, just waiting for us to ask Siri important things like “how to tie a tie” or “where can I catch a Pikachu?”
We have access to limitless amounts of information, and even when we’re not bothering Siri, it vies for our attention, bombarding us like Boom Beach artillery.
Most of it’s junk. But when you stumble on that rare nugget of gold, that article written by the muse of inspiration, herself, how do you save it?
Whatever you do, don’t lose your good reads in a sea of tabs or the next computer restart.
Here are some apps and extensions that will change the way you save and organize info.
Facebook “Saves” the Day
Or do they? By now, you’re probably familiar with Facebook’s Save feature. It lets you save posts, pages, and events for later. So when your super interesting friends or favorite companies post stuff, Facebook saves it by category.
It’s helpful but limited. Sure our friends are interesting, but most of our inspiration comes from surfing the web, not Facebook.
As cliche as it is, knowledge is power. If your browser’s bookmark isn’t cutting it (hint: it’s not), there are several apps and extensions you need to know about.
Pocket automagically organizes links by article, image, or video, and then you can throw your own tags on it too. Available offline.
Evernote lets you take screen shots, write notes, store links, and organize them all with notebooks and tags. The screenshot feature is nice if you don’t care about the whole article, just a blurb.
Instapaper has similar functionality to the previous two, but it lets you highlight and take notes on article text. Like Pocket, content is accessible offline at no additional fee.
Obviously, Facebook’s Save feature can’t compete with the functionality of these highly focused tools. But hey, maybe it can replace your weather app!
Taking Facebook’s Temperature
Facebook’s heating it up with their new weather feature. Accessible from your newsfeed or mobile app’s “more” menu, you’ll be able to see a full forecast of the coming week straight from weather.com.
Why weather? According to a spokesperson, this feature is part of their ongoing initiative to “connect people to the things they care about most and create moments of joy in people’s day.”
But weather isn’t new to Facebook. This feature is simply an updated version of Weather Greetings. Now a year old, it provided brief weather updates at the top of your news feed. The new feature adds to that by providing a link to the full week’s forecast.
It’s currently available to 95% of Facebook’s global users, and by the end of the month, they expect push notifications for weather updates to roll out.
Now you can ditch that weather app and free up 43.29MB of space on your phone. Yeah, we know it’s negligible, but we get excited about efficiency. If one app can do the job of two, why keep both?
Speaking of Efficiency
Hopefully these tips help you organize your links when something strikes your fancy. Hopefully it saves you 43.29MB of space and keeps you from getting caught in the rain.
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