I spend a significant amount of my time each day writing, reading and engaging with content on LeoFinance. Sometimes, I am around for a while so I'm able to just read anything interesting that I see.
But often, I'm on the go. I'm in and out of certain meetings, dev calls, design ops and even - shocker - walking around using my mobile phone in IRL.
What's a guy to do when I want to read a post but don't have time to read it right now?
Up until now, I used Pocket to save links to articles both on mobile and desktop. This let me easily see LeoFinance articles that I wanted to read when I had spare time but couldn't read the moment I saw them.
The only problem with this is that it did take some time to open a different app, link everything together, etc. The User Experience is not cohesive when you need to open multiple apps. @edicted wrote about this in a post a few days back.
Enter Bookmarks
Bookmarks are like Pocket integrated into LeoFinance directly.
Now, you can just tap the Bookmark icon and then review all of your Bookmarks later on.
So when I see an article I want to read, I just tap the bookmark icon and I can read it later. Maybe I'm running in and out of calls and I don't have time to read @taskmaster4450's latest work of art.
So... I bookmark it and then maybe 2 hours later I'm sitting and waiting for some food. Then I whip out the bookmarks page and boom! Task's article appears.
Not only can you bookmark Posts, you can also bookmark threads. I bet people are going to come up with fun and useful ways to utilize this.
One great way to utilize it is if you/someone else makes a prediction about something. Imagine easily being able to just bookmark that thread and revisit later.
What if you wrote a thread and want to check back on the comments continuously? Bookmark it for easy locating and replying.
A simple, yet powerful feature.
How to Use Bookmarks
I'll write a really short guide here because it is stupidly simple to use Bookmarks.
Whether you're bookmarking a thread or a post, just head over to either Threads or "Explore" (or any other content feed). When you find something you want to bookmark, simply tap the icon:
Once it's been bookmarked, it instantly will appear in the /bookmarks tab (https://alpha.leofinance.io/bookmarks).
Now, I've bookmarked @taskmaster4450le's article and it's here waiting for me to read it.
Now let's say that I've read the article and it's time to clear out the bookmark. Just tap the x top right of the bookmark and poof! Be gone!
Simple, Powerful and Elegant
The thesis of the LeoFinance UI is to be simple, powerful and elegant. We want users to come to this UI and instantly know what to do and how to do it.
You see here that I wrote a short and sweet article on how to use bookmarks... but was it really necessary to write an article?
I mean you literally tap the bookmark icon and poof, it appears in your tab. Then once you're done with that bookmark, you click the x and poof, it's gone.
Now that is good UX!
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WOW bookmark threads! Just wow!
LOL actually sucked me in with the post, who knew bookmarking something could be so fun! I'm going to give it a try, sloths are always losing their favourite threads!
https://leofinance.io/threads/@khaleelkazi/re-leothreads-2ckgdmdz2
https://leofinance.io/threads/@rmsadkri/re-leothreads-284yaukiu
https://leofinance.io/threads/@globetrottergcc/re-leothreads-7kkmkc7f
https://leofinance.io/threads/@adambarratt/re-leothreads-plkks9on
https://leofinance.io/threads/@rentmoney/re-leothreads-hpgmy
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For now, I bookmark one of my own long form contents so that I can easily open the article, review comments, reply and come back to threads. Doing this, i do not need to switch between new and old UI. A tad innovation but yes.
The bookmark is saved across operating systems, right?
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Nice feature don't forget to bookmark my article 😂
What an amazing feature!!!
I love the feature too. Being able to bookmark a post and return later to read is awesome.
good feature, i started using it for my own threads that I may want to remember, already use it on Ecency when ever there is a long post I want to read latter, for when Im not at my computer Im using keychain browser although images doesnt seem to preview when upload but still works fine to post text, hope the rest of the features for threads come soon, the basic is there and working fine, I also post a thread for a feature that lets you select the default front end to open Hive links, for example someone post a Ecency link but I want to open it with Leofinance or Peakd so it changes the URL by default, Hive going places
An excellent addition to the front-end.
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This is a good one you guys have done this time. These your team are always bringing good tidings to us all everytime. Kudos to the team👍
Things are moving in the right direction when it comes to Threads. I am really impressed with what is beginning to take shape. 👍👍
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Great update! Thanks! I just bookmarked two threads. It's cool.
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I tested bookmarks and really like them. Really useful and easy to use.
By the way, have you had a chance to look at the "Listen to Post" feature on PeakD? While the reader is too machine-like (I've seen better readers in the past, or better configured), in many cases, this is a great feature, to be able to listen to a post instead of reading it.