[Pickup Discontinued] If you want to enjoy Note, read 'Recommended' and do not read 'Pickup'

*Although the discontinuation of the pickup feature was announced at the end of 2019, I am leaving this article as it is very useful and interesting.

Hello. This is Nozomi-san.
This is a lecture on how to enjoy the familiar Note. It also aims to give creators the confidence to fight against the darkness of nothingness.

This article aims to acquire an environment where you can continue writing about your hobbies. We focus on enriching "creative work," "content reviews," and "lifestyle," but it is highly likely that this will not be useful for "corporate accounts," "viral content," or "information products."

Build a reliable timeline on Note

Actually, there are not many ways to find good articles on Note.
Acquiring reliable friends (mutual followers) and subscribing to magazines with high antennas are steady activities that will bear fruit. Since Note is not Twitter, there are few chances to encounter good articles through friends' RTs, making it a social network where building a reliable timeline is highly important.

* Articles focusing on curation within Note have good reactions, and I think there is a high demand for "summary/pickup" articles, but this time I am talking about writing original articles yourself.

November 2019 update: Unofficial curation of good articles by volunteers ( Reverse Jet Pickup and Note Rare Scenery are active, let's Togetter them)

Let's go, mutual surveillance society

So, where should you go to find such friends? First, it is best to look for people to follow in genres you are interested in. By using hashtags and free-word searches, you can find excellent Noters one after another. Let's follow them aggressively.

Also, even if you are a ROM (Read only Member), you should at least write one self-introduction article. (What kind of person are you?) You should avoid the misfortune of having a "I looked it up! BLOG" appear when someone Googles you. Even just expressing your intentions by saying "I am interested in these things" is a great start.

Mutual surveillance in a small space has a strong influence on creative work and article creation. "Friends with these hobbies and tastes are watching your articles (Big brother watching you)" is a very powerful boost. For the sender, it is natural to think, "Well then, I'll write an article that my followers might be interested in."

So, this is the flow for a standard hobby account. This time, I am aiming for developments beyond that.

Do not read "Pickup".

Note's "Pickup" is basically a mechanism that mechanically displays articles starting from those with high likes and access counts. (All of the multiple pickup conditions behave similarly.) In other words, information products that force likes, hustle-type content that went viral on the internet, and idol-like existences (who get likes just by breathing) flow in a lot. Furthermore, there are cases where information product sellers who were bashed on Twitter advance to Note for article laundering.

November 2019 update: Since then, achievement medals were introduced on Note, and I, who was searching for ways to gain the number of "likes," learned of the existence of "mutual aid societies." I think that the moment a creator relies on others for self-evaluation, they die.

Currently, this area is the public image of Note, but these concepts are incompatible with us amateurs who weave small articles as a hobby. Rather, they are antimatter that buries fun hobby articles. Let's avoid them.

(In the first place, the CXO is also saying to write maniac articles full of love rather than flaming pro-wrestling or information product chicken races)

"Popular Tags" are useless.

Note's "Popular Tags" are ranked by the total number of articles posted to date. You cannot even filter by month, let alone by week. In other words, you cannot follow hot trends.

Specific users and genres that farmed article counts during Note's early days remain at the top, and emerging hot genres cannot crawl up from the bottom. It is in the same primitive state as the "Internet = Hanami spot-reserving theory" published by a US history researcher in the 1950s."Internet = Hanami spot-reserving theory" is its primitive form.

*Example: "Gekifun Practice" earned 1,900 to 2,000 articles in one month and continues to stay at the top even outside the novel award period.

▲ Also, I thought "Hot Tags" would appear when hovering over popular tags, but it was a mysterious specification where the fortune-telling tag, with its latest article from November 2018, was displayed.

Read the "Recommended" section.

So, what information should you trust? Note's "Recommended" section features excellent articles manually checked by the Note editorial department. Compared to mechanical pickups, the quality is far higher and more profound. It even includes articles with single-digit 'likes'—the kind that make you think, '(Wait? You're reading this far?)'—retaining a sense of human warmth.

In short, the Note editorial department has a good eye.Even if an article that doesn't suit your taste is hooked up, it means it is an article with some value that deserves to be widely known. (There are also barter-like articles, so filter those yourself.)

Recommendation
Content that Note editors think is good or should be spread to the world. It is introduced in "Recommended," "Official Magazine," "Official Tweets," "Editorial Meetings," etc.
《Random thoughts on information products on note Quoted from 》

Excellent articles often share common expression techniques even if their coverage differs from yours. Articles by professionals often reveal their HOW-TOs generously and are very useful. By reading them without being picky, you may acquire new weapons and ammunition. Following them may also open up new worlds. (Especially recently, I have gained a lot of knowledge about e-Sports.)

*It's a personal preference, but I have a habit of reading "HOW-TOs in fields I'm not interested in," and I was laughing out loud at a Note article picked up the other day titled "HOW-TOs in fields I'm not interested in" that was picked up the other day, titled "There is a strange custom on Instagram of scattering flower petals on tables, which has led to the bizarre sight of flower petals being scattered on nikujaga (meat and potato stew)." Let's cherish bugged aesthetics.

Read the "Content Meeting" and you write too.

"#ContentMeeting" is a tag for outputting consumed content in a review format, operated by the official Note team. Articles with this tag are premised on being read by third parties, so the readability and calmness of the articles are incomparably higher and you can read them with (relative) peace of mind.

Also, there is an official weekly article called "This Week's Content Meeting," and you can aim to be featured in it as motivation to keep writing articles on Note. The Note editorial department has a good eye for picking up not only the latest content but also old content without any problems. Even if it's not a hot topic, "what you thought right now" is important. We want to know what you like.

November 2019 update: Since then, Note has abolished the weekly report of the Content Meeting. It was changed to a monthly publication and then gradually abolished, so this method is no longer effective today. The stage for official praise has decreased, and cheaper currency for praise called "This is a trending article notification" has begun to circulate. (A little lonely.)

We are beings of a higher layer.

We must not forget that we are beings of a higher layer than influencers and curators.

Daisuke Sawayama (editor)'s article on the matrix of "Buzz-worthy Planning" is a very interesting article, so I hope you read it. In short, this article is "from an editor's perspective," so it is not useful for creators, but one thing I want you to recognize is that we #HuranCluster and creators (the 1,900 people who applied for the Gekifun Novel Award) are beings of a layer far above the matrix.

You must not forget that the moment a creator sends out information is "the rarest," "the most real," "the most internet," and "the fastest." It is not a matter of confidence, but a difference in rank. It is about the same difference as between "demons" and "Taikaishu" in Taikaishu.

▼ This article was salvaged from Note's recommendations. Even for an article as important as this one, with only about 100-200 likes, it could easily get buried in the Pickup section. This shows just how meaningless the Pickup section is.

Writing interesting articles is our job. Riding the wave of trends and promotion is the editor's job. I wrote an interesting article, but the traffic isn't increasing! It is a waste to get trapped in the "darkness of nothingness" over something like that.

Another very helpful article has suddenly popped up. People who are good at being fawned over can attract even more fawning. This is an article by Reizoko-san that hits the core truth of this. Let's raise our #VesselOfFawning and get fawned over. (I'm not good at being fawned over, so I want to do my best.)

By the way, I made a big claim that "it's easy to get featured if you write interesting articles," but the next day, a Togetter summary of mine was featured as a top pick. As expected! #TheyHaveAnEyeForQuality

What you should aim for is an article that reaches your readers. It shouldn't be an article that tries to please influencers or editors, but rather a substantial, REAL article that makes people feel good about fawning over you. That is the best kind.

▼ Postscript: There was an interesting article about how editors feel regarding "articles I like but that don't get much traction." It's very encouraging.

Hayashi: It was shocking, I thought, "What is this..." The fact that the tweets and shares weren't growing at all was also the best part.
Harajuku: Well, they don't usually grow, do they?
Hayashi: It's good that it doesn't grow.

◆"Leisure" is the ideal editing technique. How the editors-in-chief of Omocoro and Daily Portal Z talk about creating an interesting "team" from ◆

To the future

Note is a social network where we can interact with each other. By you writing articles, those around you are inspired, and the world gradually becomes a better place. To create a better environment, please share the things you love.

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