There’s so much content floating around the Internet, it’s incredibly easy to feel like one’s drowning under it all, to feel like one’s gotten lost in the constant, continual surge of information. It’s not even how much data we’re processing, so much as it is the wide array of sources we’re processing all of it from. Many of us don’t even have the time – let alone the energy – to expend looking through every single social site, blog, and content platform we follow in order to keep with the times. How, then, does one stay on top of everything?
Like so many other problems, the answer is in an app.
Nextly is one of a growing breed of platforms designed for the easy and efficient exploration and consumption of content online – platforms which, as the amount of information online steadily increases, are becoming more and more desperately required by the end user. Using an exquisite yet simple interface, Nextly makes it possible to browse through posts and updates from a whole array of sources; including Reddit, Facebook, and Twitter coupled with a whole array of other content sources.
Nextly equips you with the ability to organize your content based on source or topic, at which point you can easily skip from one article to the next through the interface. Ironically enough, this leads to an experience which feels somewhat reminiscent of channel surfing. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, of course: it most definitely streamlines the process of content consumption. Even better, Nextly allows you to instantly share anything you find interesting or relevant through Facebook, Twitter, or Email.
If you find a particularly interesting piece of content and you either want to revisit it later or don’t have time to examine it right away, you can bookmark it within the application. This will make the page accessible from the application’s main menu, allowing you to go back whenever you see fit. Lastly, navigation is streamlined even further by the ability to use the arrow keys on your keyboard to jump from article to article.
The app, though incredibly useful, isn’t necessarily perfect. Sadly, there’s no option quite yet to post something on Reddit, even though the site exists as a content source, and it also doesn’t allow users to add any websites of their own choosing to the content streams. In that way, it falls short of many of the other content platforms currently circulating the net. Given all of its merits, this is a definite shame, and hopefully a minor issue that the developers fix in the very near future.
Still, in spite of its (relatively inconsequential) flaws, Nextly is a powerful, lightweight, and easy-to-use means of sorting through content on the Internet. While plenty of alternatives exist, you could certainly do worse.
Those of you who are interested in giving it a try can check out Nextly here. Signing up is as simple as linking it to your Twitter or Facebook account.
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