Signal-though-the-noise
Any website, app, or content producer can (and will) inundate you with an endless stream of content. But, Annotote’s not about holding you captive — it’s about getting you straight to the point.
If you read a lot, you also spend a lot of time sorting through noise. We all want to read more and learn more, but our days aren’t getting longer and the noise is getting louder. Not only are we drowning in content, but even the good stuff buries the lede. You don’t need another app to serve you more blogs, news, and views; what you need is a way to get straight to the point.
Don’t forget, the point is to remember what you read, but the more ancillary information you take on, the harder it is to retain core knowledge. (It’s not about the hunt, it’s about the harvest!) That’s why Annotote gives you a better way to read — highlights by you and for you — providing the most direct access to knowledge possible.
Whether you’re getting informed or informing others, don’t waste time or attention. Get straight to the point!
A solution for the age of abundance
Despite the digital revolution, the product and service of media remain status quo — at least as far as content producers are concerned. For consumers, however, the entire media experience is obsolete.
Everyone is inundated by media, so it’s a struggle to both find and internalize the signal-through-the-noise. So, we improvise to cope: 58% of us suffer from information overload; 81% of us skim everything we read; our attention span has dropped 31%; we only finish 9% of the content that we start; then we forget 90% of that knowledge within a few days!
Suffice to say, the media product in the marketplace today doesn’t meet our wants and needs as consumers.
Throughout history, the media business was predicated on scarcity. There were huge barriers to entry, like expensive printing presses and distribution infrastructure. So, if you could afford the startup costs of a newspaper business, your reward was an effective monopoly: one newspaper and hundreds-of-thousands of subscribers.
Accordingly, when the product was scarce, the balance-of-power always lay in the hands of producers. However, today, the internet has eliminated the barriers to entry, and now anyone can produce, distribute, and access content. In this age of abundance, the balance-of-power has shifted to us, the consumers. Yet, we content consumers still have to waste way too much of our time to get way too little value out of our user experience!
Innovations like blogging and social media have improved how content is produced, but nothing has made it easier or better to consume. Now, Annotote is the antidote!
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