![]() ![]() This makes covering Meta feel somewhat less urgent. “the algorithm”) in ways that both make it less important to publishers’ bottom lines but also make it less menacing a force for social decay and distrust. One reason that Facebook’s influence over newsmedia has shifted is that Facebook has overhauled (several times now) its newsfeed weighting and sorting system (i.e. This is absolutely not to say that “no one uses Facebook anymore” but that a lot of that usage is out of sight for me and my peers. Similarly, Facebook ex-Instagram just doesn’t play as big a role as it once did in the social lives of the American middle-aged millennial urban professional cohort to which I belong. As I imagine most readers are at least vaguely aware, Facebook was once such a disproportionately huge traffic source for digital publishers that it was impossible to ignore (or, for that matter, to overestimate) these days, most successful publishers have managed to diversify the sources of both their traffic and their revenue, which means that Facebook’s power is much less visible to us on a professional level. I write a lot less about the company now, for a bunch of interrelated reasons, like:įacebook is no longer as important to or influential within the newsmedia industry as it was during most of the 2010s. Between, say, 20, I wrote a lot about Meta/Facebook. This is a good question that I’ve been asking myself recently. You won't regret it.What does it mean that Meta doesn’t seem to be very good at things these days? Has their lack of success (relatively speaking) changed your thinking about them at all? - Dan In short, if you are looking for a powerful yet easy-to-use low-friction note taking native app, then check out Notational Velocity. But, that feature is there for you to explore. I use NV locally on my Mac and do not use any synching with Dropbox or other cloud services. I have used many tools such as VI editor within terminal (with grep and sed features), Notepad, Evernote, Simplenote, etc. It has very useful feature to include "links" (hyperlinks) between notes within NV. So, not having fancy formatting is not limiting at all. I have built my own system of using markdown tags, hashtags and identifiers to enter and search for notes. But, offers bold, italic, and strikethrough of the notes text. It does not offer fancy formatting features such as underlines, font size, font color/background color, font type etc. The keyboard navigation is useful with its 'excruciatingly' simple shortcuts! The search is super fast and the highlighting of matching text makes it easy to look for/enter notes. Notational Velocity is pretty lightweight and has a very simple easy to use interface. With my experience, I can relate to it and confirm that it works great to go through my hundreds of notes. NV says that it excels when the content is distributed. NV documentation says that the best way to use it is to create many notes vs having one note with a lot of text. You can create as many notes as you want. no 'save' button all notes get auto saved automatically.search is the main aspect of the app interface and is super simple and fast.It is an attempt to loosen the mental blockages to recording information and to scrape away the tartar of convention that handicaps its retrieval. NOTATIONAL VELOCITY is an application that stores and retrieves notes. I have been using it for the past year or so and I LOVE IT!įrom the Notational velocity (NV) website. I have used many note taking apps in the past and lately settled on Notational Velocity (NV) on a Mac. ![]()
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