Content production on the mobile side is nothing new, the popularity of micro-blogging, micro-credit and Instagram makes the production of fragmented content a habit of people, on the one hand it can be seen as the creation of civilians, on the other hand, the disadvantage is also obvious--fragmentation of the content to indicate the idea of fragmentation People are getting away from immersive thinking, and most people are impatient to knock down 140 words, and it's hard for the information flow to precipitate valuable content. Zine (currently only iOS version) the mobile end of the writing, sharing tool is to make a balance between the two, hope that people can use it to the day-to-day inspiration, serious thinking capture record.
Zine, magazine, wants to record something for the user on zine as beautifully as a magazine, which distinguishes it from other note-taking applications. In order to do this, zine also really in the writing environment to build up a kung fu, whether it is the font, paper and pictures are very elegant, such as font is the purchase of the founder font fonts, but also from hundreds of of fonts selected from. Paid members can use richer fonts and paper.
The user does not need to select a piece of text editing content, just specify the cursor in the paragraph, slide the way to select the font, color, font size, and layout, this is to take into account the ease of writing mobile end. Zine even provides voice input (technology with KEDA to provide), the identification of Standard Mandarin is no problem. Also, zine supports writing to save and cloud synchronization.
Zine support share to Weibo, friends Circle, impression notes, Facebook and many other platforms, Zine founder Louis said that the user to share the content, for the creation and extraction of the user almost half, the length of more than 1000 words (also someone to write a novel), Write travels, make recipes, Write a diary, even write a hardware test. At present, zine is encouraging users to produce more high-quality content, the main way is the way users contribute, the recruitment of manuscripts through the Zine-la this micro-letter public number, users can upgrade to membership. Zine also hope that some of the micro-letters from media users to use the zine tool to write, to provide people with a more enjoyable reading experience. Also considering the need for some users to write long writing, zine also launched the web version.
From a production tool to a consumer (quality magazine), of course, it takes a lot of quality content to inject, moving end to become the production tools of the trend I do not doubt that the writing field of creation should be no exception, as a provider of tools zine of course hope can form from writing to reading the closed loop, It is possible to explore more in the business model. The famous blog platform medium a few months ago also launched the mobile end products, but can only read can not write, I believe that the polishing will be made up later.
According to Louis, Zine launched 10 months since the accumulation of users about 100,000. The company behind the product is called Aura Marker, previously made a painting tool called finger painter (still in service), but the feeling threshold is slightly higher, which is one of the reasons to turn to the field of writing.