To me, Steemit is missing one key filtering feature for our home feed. I wish for the ability to refine the selection of people we are following. Specifically, I'd like to designate certain people as "My tribe" or "My circle of friends," in order to focus first on the posts generated by the specific people I choose. Know what I mean? I figured out a workaround, and I'll share it here.
“Keeping Tabs On Our Tribes”
The Issue
Note: The Steemit home screen is effective and attractive to me, but I'd like to see another button on the right-side column: "My tribe" or "My circles." Something like that.
Clutter is a challenge. I believe this is the single most important stressor that turns people away from Steemit–especially in the beginning. There's just so much to surf through! I do believe the current filters work well, allowing us to see posts by the people we follow, and track the categories, trending posts, new posts, hot posts... but we can't currently target the posts of our specific selection of friends.
As an @OCD curator, I've demonstrated my expertise at finding the gems in the general feeds, but I've missed many posts by my closest friends because I haven't found an efficient way to track my tribe. I find myself feeling overwhelmed, and wishing to see more posts by my favorite content creators. Can you relate with me?
The Solution
Today, I figured out how to keep a closer tab on my tribe. My answer to the task of keeping in touch with "My tribe" is to create a button that opens multiple tabs in a web browser, each tab holding the blog page of a selected friend. This is achieved with three simple steps:
- Open your friends' blog pages in a web browser. Give each one a new tab.
- Bookmark these blog pages. Use the "Bookmark All Tabs" button for a shortcut.
- In the "Bookmark Manager," keep tabs on your tribe with just one click!
The Visual Aid
The first step is to open your friends' blog pages in a web browser. Give each one a new tab.
Next, you'll bookmark these blog pages. In the "Bookmarks" drop-down menu of Google Chrome, you'll see a button that reads: "Bookmark All Tabs," which saves these tabs in a folder. This folder will become the button that clicks to gold.
Note: Successful bookmarking looks like this. If you look closely at my "Steemians" folder, you'll see a fantastic list of people you might like to follow too!
In the "Bookmarks" drop-down menu, you'll find the "Bookmark Manager." Here, you'll have options for organizing your bookmarks.
The Conclusion
Of course, the first selection process begins with the people we follow. I am currently following 491 people, for example, and I'm very selective of the people I follow. My preference is to continue following these fine folks, as I'm grateful when someone surprises me with a great post! But honestly, I'm here to nurture deeper connections, and I believe I can do this best if I focus on the 40-50 people in my tribe.
I'm just doing my best to make time for Steemit while working my job and keeping track of my kids, so I'd love to know if another option currently exists to keep tabs on my tribe. I imagine there are other efficient ways to narrow down our field of focus, right? Do you have any suggestions or solutions? To me, the natural answer is a single button, i.e. "My tribe," that creates a Steemit feed based on our selected groups of people. The cherry on top would be some more advanced filtering options that might enable us to track our favorite events and challenges too. Yes please!
