You Can Create Your Own Feed on Medium

Here’s how

Like many of you, I suspect, I enjoy the fact that Medium “pushes” certain topics, authors and publications my way. It’s easy and works to my benefit … mostly.

However I’m always exploring ways to change up this dynamic and be more in control of the content that comes my way.

Warning: I’m a techno moron, but I think I’ve figured something out here.

Look above in the screenshot and focus on the upper left hand corner.

To the right of Melanie J.’s name (and to the right of “1.2K followers” and “about” are two “buttons”.

One of the buttons is the “follow”/”following”. Clicking that allows one to follow Melanie J. (as one should, IMHO).

The next one to the right is where it gets interesting and shifts the information feed locus-of-control to you. Clicking the button with the little envelope in it means that every time Melanie J. publishes you’ll (I’ll) get an email.

I’ve done this dozens of times and continue to do so for all the authors I come across that interest me.

This does mean that on a daily basis my gmail account is bursting at the seams, but I’m OK with that. I simply “run the list”…