Yury Molodtsov

COO and Partner @ MA Family, where we run communications for tech startups and VC firms.

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Use Raindrop Instead of Native Bookmarks on Twitter and YouTube

Twitter, YouTube, and many other services have built-in bookmarks and playlists encouraging you to save content for later. I encourage you to try using a third-party service instead of them. Raindrop is a great alternative.

Read More March 26, 2023

How to Read Newsletters In An App

Your email app isn’t the best way to read newsletters. Especially if you’re subscribed to dozens of them. Try a separate app for this.

Read More March 25, 2023

How to Start Your Blog in 2023

Running your own blog helps you keep an online journal of your life and thoughts that doesn’t depend on unreliable tech platforms like Facebook or Twitter. But this process is still needlessly complicated and certainly not user-friendly for regular people.

Read More February 19, 2023

Switch to a Modern Read-Later App Already

Read–later apps are simultaneously popular and outdated. A lot of people use them. They’re now embedded right in our browsers and there’s a couple of age-old names, but if you’re still using any of these options you should reconsider.

Read More December 14, 2022

Workflowy is the Platform to Build Your Ideal Notes System

Time and time again, I’m getting back to WorkFlowy as my primary system for notes and knowledge storage. It is truly a bicycle for the mind that helps you structure your thoughts while providing unparalleled flexibility.

Read More June 4, 2022

The Updated Guide to Workflowy

I’ve updated my guide to Workflowy, the king of outliners, which I wrote almost two years ago. Since then, Workflowy has added many great features, including rich media support and backlinks, so the previous iteration felt incomplete.

Read More May 23, 2022

Mailbrew: Get Personalized Email Digests of News and Content

Mailbrew is the only app that allows you to receive news and content from the web in the form of regular digests. The idea behind it is to avoid the anxiety and guilt caused by endless feeds in social apps by doing bulk delivery of content at a pre-defined time throughout the day.

Read More March 16, 2021

Feedbin: One App to Consume All News

It’s one thing to read a lot of content, it’s another to spend hours jumping between apps trying to get a dopamine hit and then getting caught in them. Feedbin is the best RSS service which collects RSS feeds, email newsletters, Twitter feeds, and YouTube videos.

Read More February 19, 2021

Browsers Are Outdated And Somebody Has To Do Something

Our browsers are astoundingly outdated and their developers seem to be oblivious to that. We went from basic HTML pages sprinkled with a little bit of Javascript to running full-scale applications like Figma or Descript yet browsers have practically the same UI as they had ten years ago.

Read More December 13, 2020

A Comparative Review of iOS Browsers

I compared all third-party iOS browsers to check if they’re ready to be used as default ones. Only if you really want to.

Read More September 19, 2020

The PARA Method in Workflowy

PARA is a universal productivity methodology that can be implemented in any app or service. It helps you categorize your notes, thoughts, documents, and files.

Read More August 16, 2020

The Basic Guide to Workflowy

Workflowy is the ultimate productivity app that closely mimicks the way I want to work. It might be overwhelming at first, so I wrote a guide that covers all the basics.

Read More July 16, 2020

The Evolution of Outliners

Outliners are apps which force you to write in hierarhical bullet points, helping you to structure your thoughts They are are a very curious category of software products that have been mostly used by a small number of geeks but recently captured more attention with the launch of Roam Research.

Read More July 11, 2020