How to Track Online Favorites
How to Track Online Favorites
Use Favs to manage and track Facebook Likes, Twitter favorites, and more
We are increasingly encouraged by social networks to flag things we find online that we like. The Facebook "Like" button is now almost ubiquitous, popping up on myriad websites, but you’ll also find similar functionality in Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, and many other networks.
The majority of such interactions are of the "that’s nice" variety, akin to real-world scenarios where you give someone a passing comment or compliment about something, never to think of it again. However, flagged items can also be used as bookmarks, enabling you to build up a curated list of things you enjoyed discovering.
The problem with most social networks is that accessing previously marked favorites isn’t nearly as simple as it should be. Social networks by their very nature have content that is fleeting and transient. Searches are often unwieldy or plain absent, making it nigh-on impossible to unearth things you’d essentially bookmarked only a short while ago. Naturally, this can be hugely frustrating. Favs solves the problem by enabling you to bring all of your favorites into a single app. This not only gives you a much easier means of finding old Facebook Likes and favorite tweets, but it also means you have a local copy of your favorites, accessible without visiting the original networks.
Favs is reviewed and is available for $2.99 from the Mac App Store. A free trial version can also be downloaded from http://favsapp.com. Note that the trial limits access to only the most recent favorites in each of your defined accounts, but it should nonetheless give you a flavor of what the app is like. You can use either version to work through our tutorial, which primarily details how to use Favs with Facebook and Twitter.
What You’ll Need:
>> Favs 1.0.3+, OS X 10.7+, an account with one for more compatible social networks, and internet connection.
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