After reading the book Skip the line by James Altucher, I decided to experiment with the 10 ideas rule in my life. I decided to try that with Medium where I will add 10 ideas that might help improve Medium.
This is my first attempt, and I decided instead of sending these to Medium (honestly I think most of them are too naive :)), I will write an article on Medium. I also wanted to write something on Medium for a very long time, so this killed two birds with one arrow.
Some of these might already exist, but I’m writing these to the best of my knowledge.
10 Ideas to improve Medium.
- Showing on the UI the articles that I have read/open and how much time I spent on that. Sometimes it’s not the best experience to see the same articles popping up throughout the day.
- Related to the first item is an activity timeline where I could see the history of what articles I opened/read and all my actions.
- Have something like Anki builtin(or integration with Anki) that will send the remainder to review the articles on a specified date or an interval. I feel reading article is most effective when you are able to review them again.
- Schedule reading of an article on a given date when I’m adding that to my reading list, say I want this article to pop up on Saturday. This would provide more clear and actionable reading goals.
- Groups in Medium where you can create groups, add members, and the group’s timeline could be based on member’s activities and suggestions based on member’s activities.
- Audio version of articles, sometimes I like to listen to articles while doing a workout or taking a walk, some browsers like Firefox support Reader View with an option to listen to the articles but it would be great to have something like this supported in Medium.
- Personal notes/summaries from the article, most of the time when I read an article, I want to summarize that for me and take some actionable out of that. There should be an option to summarize(personal summary) an article in Medium that I can save, search, read and export the summaries.
- Include different sections/tags for reviews, say if I want to search/read all the reviews of a book, I should be able to look at that section/tag, although the Medium search kind of works but it is still not the best experience. Authors can tag their articles with correct tags.
- A content view on the side of the article so one can directly jump to a heading/sub-heading.
- Ability to save the articles offline to read later.
Lastly, this is my first article, so please feel free to provide suggestions/corrections.
