It’s that last option which caught me off-guard - by the time I had logged into Matter and started looking around, I discovered I had new writing already waiting for me.
Here, you will find new writing from writers you follow, newsletters you’re subscribed to, and writers you follow on Twitter. Tap Inbox (or tap the Home button again in the bottom nav bar) to jump to your Inbox. This Discover tab is a goldmine for phenomenal writing and you could get lost for hours saving great writing to your Queue. These articles are algorithmically discovered and often come with a comment from another Matter user. In Discover, you can explore popular articles across the Matter community. The Home Tab in the bottom left navigation bar opens the Discover and Inbox views. If you can learn and understand what each branch of the app does, moving through Matter becomes a lot easier. In some instances, Matter can become confusing. These different branches correctly imply how much Matter can do. You’d likely need the Queue view to uncover past highlights at some point in time, but you could use Matter not so much as a read-later app but as a newsletter reading app. You could skip the Queue branch (mostly) and use Matter as a place to receive and read all your favorite newsletters. You can even set the Queue to be your Start Screen. These five branches are surprisingly mutually exclusive - you can use the Queue to save articles from across the internet to read later and you can avoid the Discover and Inbox branches entirely. There are a few branches to Matter that can be discussed largely on their own: The app has a phenomenal reading experience, a unique audio transcription feature, frictionless highlighting, and cool quote shots for sharing your favorite quotes and quips on Twitter. Matter is designed as a modern read-it-later app, capable of storing Twitter threads, blog posts, random URLs, YouTube videos, PDFs, and more.
There are other apps that are built only for the iPad (think Pixelmator Photo), and while Matter isn’t that, it’s the closest thing you can get to an iPad-only app that is also available for the iPhone. Though available on the iPhone, Matter is best used on the iPad. Walking Around Matterįirst things first: Matter is available only for the iPhone and iPad right now (and M1 Macs as an iPad app). It has just the right number of features and sets the bar really, really high for Readwise.
I’ve been using Matter’s private beta for the last few months and the app has graduated to being one of my most-used iPad apps in that time. Today, we’re looking at Matter, a read-it-later app with a beautiful design and a social network element built in. We’ve seen numerous updates to GoodLinks, a simple light-weight link-saving option. Readwise is putting together its own read-it-later option that looks promising. It’s high time for read-it-later disruption. There have been some great Pinboard clients as well, though Pinboard clients don’t see the type of updates we’d like anymore (9 months and 4 years respectively for Pushpin and Pinner, our former favorites.) Pocket and Instapaper have long, long, long been the best two options in this arena. Read-it-later apps are having their day in the sun right now. Same goes for weather apps back in the day, or Twitter apps, and even productivity apps (though it feels perhaps like GTD apps are due for an uprooting). Then, out of the blue, apps like Roam Research, Notion, Craft, NotePlan, Agenda, Obsidian, and GoodNotes seemingly sprung up out of nowhere to provide more choice than any note-taker could have dreamed of. For the longest time, we recommended Bear for typed notes and Notability for handwritten notes. App categories seem to go through rainy seasons and dry seasons - an entire category will go years without any major update, any major splash, or any major new competitor, then suddenly the entire category is uplifted from its roots and the cobwebs get shaken out.
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