Matter App | Tips & Tricks

I love writing Threads on Twitter. But I get it, not everyone enjoys using Twitter. No worries! Now you won’t miss a thread cause they’re all right here. Enjoy!

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Erica Drayton @EricaDrayton

The @matter app has been one of the best additions in my life this year. Here are some reasons why. I'm also including a few tips on how you can increase all the knowledge you soak up in the form of articles, threads, emails and more. 🧵 Ahead...

Erica Drayton @EricaDrayton

Twitter Threads No more will you need to mention some third party service, disrupting the OG poster with all those replies that aren’t real. Instead, share to the app and that thread is now in post form.

Erica Drayton @EricaDrayton

TIP: Your Twitter Thread If you’re like me, you want to save your own threads in post-form. Might I suggest putting the “title” of your thread at the beginning. Matter will take that first sentence and use it as the title when you save it.

Erica Drayton @EricaDrayton

Newsletters Your inbox getting cluttered with all those newsletters you signed up for? Matter will find them & pull them into the app. One convenient location. Also, just use the special email address they provide you with to sign up so they bypass your inbox entirely.

Erica Drayton @EricaDrayton

TIP: Newsletters Instead of unsubscribing to a newsletter, just change your preferences with that newsletter to update the email address to the one Matter gives you.

Erica Drayton @EricaDrayton

ARTICLES I use Flipboard to search for interesting articles to find. But sometimes you click a link inside Twitter. You can use Instapaper to save something you’ve read someplace else. But now you can do it all in one app and save it to Matter.

Erica Drayton @EricaDrayton

TIP: Articles Once you save an article to Matter, might I suggest using their Tag feature to find things you save much easier? Especially, if you’re saving several articles per day. It can become overwhelming. But you can filter within the app by that tag to see just those.

Erica Drayton @EricaDrayton

Favorites / Queue / Archived Everything you save goes into the Queue. If you don’t want it to stay there indefinitely, Archive it out of that bucket. Use those two interchangeably to move from “read now” to “already read” and only Favorite those you want to reread or go back to.

Erica Drayton @EricaDrayton

Tip: Web Version I initially had this down as a request but turns out they DO have a “web version” in the form of their Web Extension. Which is great for viewing all that you have saved on your computer to use for a future thread, article, email, etc.

Erica Drayton @EricaDrayton

Tags Your list of saved threads & articles getting out of hand? If you apply tags to them using key words it can be useful when searching for something from days or weeks ago. Revisiting great content is only as good as the tagging system you employ to find (& use) later.

Erica Drayton @EricaDrayton

Tip: Tags Try not to have too many tags. I find a lot of the extra tags I’m making could easily be incorporated into one I already have. Again, don’t make searching that much harder on yourself by having as many tags as you do things saved.

Erica Drayton @EricaDrayton

It takes a lot for one app to capture my attention. It’s made my ability to create (and save) content that much easier. Oh, did I mention it’s free? So, check it out! And while you’re at it, follow me for more awesome 🧵 to come, or subscribe to my Sunday Snippets. Link in bio.

Erica Drayton @EricaDrayton

One More Thing: I just noticed that if you switch to another saved article after reading some of a previous one, Matter will save your spot and put you right back where you were when you return to it. Nice little touch I appreciate.