How I Use Matter to Organize My Research, Reading, and Writing Process

I’ve been testing a new tool that I’m completely obsessed with, and it’s quickly becoming the backbone of my research and content workflow.

It’s called Matter, and it’s been a game-changer for how I read, save, organize, and return to everything I come across online.

I’ve talked a lot about this pain point before: I consume a lot of content — articles, newsletters, podcasts, YouTube videos, even TikToks — and I needed a central hub that could hold everything I want to reference later. Matter has finally solved that problem for me PTL.

Matter was created by Robert Mackenzie and Ben Springwater. (It was also born out of YC which I didn’t realize until I started writing up this piece!)

Springwater is the founder of Pocket, the original “save for later” app, so it has much of the same ethos. But this is more than a bookmarking tool; In many ways it feels like Pocket’s older, sophisticated cousin that just got back from college.

Matter is built for people who think deeply, write regularly, and research across formats.

I have Matter installed on both my phone and computer, and I use it daily to save:

If you can’t tell, I’m clearly a visual learner, so I find it so helpful to be able to see this all visually and it not live in some hidden dashboard or folder.