Mark as Read
I predict a change.
Twitter, Facebook, Flipboard and other social websites should all have "mark as read" functionality. Obviously I don't want to open up today's newspaper and see exactly the same stories as yesterday.
Sites like Twitter.com should be encouraging me to reach inbox 0.
The implementation that's the best is seen in Google's Reader, which I highly suggest.
It's very simple. As you scroll through and read a post, it gets a check as being read, which you can undo to save it for later. Above the feed is a toggle between all posts and just new, so you can get to everything. This is also like Archive and All Mail in Gmail.
I hope dearly that this comes to G+ soon. It makes perfect sense to me.
1. They already have a super elegant selector highlighting the feed item you're looking at, on the left border of each post. Just add a checkbox ala reader.
2. You have the pain and gain of having to record each "read". I'm sure you can find some interesting ways to use that data.
3. Also this solves all the whining about superstars with content that dominates the feed, without having to use mute?
My question is, Why not?
Twitter, Facebook, Flipboard and other social websites should all have "mark as read" functionality. Obviously I don't want to open up today's newspaper and see exactly the same stories as yesterday.
Sites like Twitter.com should be encouraging me to reach inbox 0.
The implementation that's the best is seen in Google's Reader, which I highly suggest.
It's very simple. As you scroll through and read a post, it gets a check as being read, which you can undo to save it for later. Above the feed is a toggle between all posts and just new, so you can get to everything. This is also like Archive and All Mail in Gmail.
I hope dearly that this comes to G+ soon. It makes perfect sense to me.
1. They already have a super elegant selector highlighting the feed item you're looking at, on the left border of each post. Just add a checkbox ala reader.
2. You have the pain and gain of having to record each "read". I'm sure you can find some interesting ways to use that data.
3. Also this solves all the whining about superstars with content that dominates the feed, without having to use mute?
My question is, Why not?