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reMarkable

A few folks on the Carney team recently adopted the reMarkable Type Folio keyboard and have been loving it. Here’s Rich’s take:

“Using the reMarkable Type Folio keyboard helped me realize how much of the writing process is really just putting off writing… Opening a blank document, monkeying around with font choices, clicking back and forth to different tabs for ‘research’ and inspiration.

The reMarkable clears that all away so that you are forced to get down to the business of actually writing. Text options are intentionally limited, but sufficient for actually writing something. Margins and whitespace are generous.

The cursor is positioned in the middle of the screen as you type. That means you don’t see too much of what you’ve already written, tempting you to scan back up the page in the name of ‘revision’ when you really should be writing.

And if you really need to look up a fact somewhere else, you can go to another device. But since the entire Internet is not a tab away, there’s just enough friction to make you pause and consider if you really need to break the flow of your writing to go down a digital rabbit hole this very moment. Turns out you usually can come back to it later.”

Told

Told is a simple popup survey tool for collecting feedback from your users and customers. Use the no-code editor to prompt feedback at the right time across apps, websites, and survey links.

Validate your idea, measure long-term customer satisfaction, evaluate your payment funnel, measure your product market fit, or gather suggestions.

Also, the colorful gradient design is easy on the eyes.

mymind

Our minds have been taken captive—say the minds behind mymind—by social media, vanity metrics, data tracking, external pressures, newsfeeds, and ads.

mymind is a private database of your notes, images, quotes, and highlights—each filed, categorized, organized, and tagged by AI. It’s an extension of your brain and a personal search engine, all in one.

ChatSlide

ChatSlide is an AI generator that can very quickly turn any website, video, or document into a presentation or social post. No tedious copying and pasting.

Plus, convert slides or content into video seamlessly with customized digital avatars, voiceover, and automated scripting.

Diversify Your Blog Traffic

It’s been a turbulent year so far for bloggers. As Google core updates and SERP shakeups continue, it’s critical that content creators diversity their traffic sources in 2024. Here are some viable options:

Microsoft Bing. Submit your site to Bing Webmaster Tools, set up a sitemap, and take advantage of IndexNow real-time indexing. (Hint: This is built into Yoast, RankMath and AIO by default).
Pinterest traffic. Pinterest is the third fastest-growing platform and can send considerable traffic to blogs. Take a Pinterest course or work with an expert to invest in Pinterest as a monthly priority.
Facebook traffic. It’s the third most-visited site behind Google and YouTube. Over two-thirds of all monthly users are online daily. Commit to understanding the algorithm and creating a strategy to exploit it.
Instagram traffic. Instagram is still your top choice if your target is between 18 and 34 years old. Optimize Stories and Reels to boost engagement with Gen Z and millennials.
Reddit traffic. Reddit has benefitted from Google updates and recently introduced Reddit Pro BETA. Sign up to try additional tools for understanding where and how to communicate on the platform.
YouTube traffic. Bloggers can’t ignore a potential ad reach of 2.49 billion users and over 100 million paid users on YouTube.

Check out Search Engine Land for more strategies to recover traffic.

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Google Sheets: Convert to table

Google Sheets users! Depending on where you are in Google’s rollout, you can now Format > Convert to table.

What does this mean? You can turn your data into pretty little self-contained tables, with filters and sorting rules, in just one click.

Sheets automatically creates filters, formats your columns and adds visual separators to rows. Voilà.

Bookmarkish

All good blogs and articles start out as open tabs. And if they’re lucky, some open tabs will get earnestly bookmarked for later.

But the vast majority are simply neglected and closed out forever. Cue that Sarah McLaughlin song.

Bookmarkish gives good content a second chance by emailing you 2 of your bookmarks to revisit every week. #SaveTheBookmarks

Boom

Another day, another dull remote meeting full of talking heads.

Boom is a MacOS camera app that makes video calls more engaging with fun UI, branded designs and overlays, camera presets, muted notifications, reaction GIFs, screen-share magnification, and more.