Organizing Your TikToks

One thing I borderline hate about social media platforms like Instagram is their inability to let you organize your content. While most probably don’t care about that, being themed accounts or with content they’ll rarely or never care to reference again, being more concerned about Likes and number of Followers in the moment, I am one who creates content I would like to reference again in talking to people to show them or tell thing about things, rather than caring for how many Likes or Followers I have. As a result, I want to be able to find things I have posted quickly, or see similar content all at once, as well as show or direct others to do the same thing without making them scroll though an endless amount of posts eventually. That’s why I have a handful of Instagram accounts themed on different things like origami, fashion, flags, and such, rather than jam them all in one account.

Well, with TikTok, I have found a way to organize my content by any topic I want, using their Collections feature, so I don’t need multiple accounts for differently themed content to keep them organized unless I foresee enough content to dedicate to a separate account. I show you how to organize your TikToks in the way I mentioned in more detail below.

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Potentially Popular New Strava Monthly Challenges

The Strava platform has a bunch of monthly challenges that makes things fun for users. For example, run 100, 200, or 300 km, or walk 50 km, or cycle numerous distances.  These are great! However, I am surprised they are missing some that are not only beneficial for users, popular from science backings in at least Western culture, and just systematically to be comparable across activities. I have listed some below and hope Strava will add them as I don’t think they would be hard to add, considering there are already algorithms for some similar challenges in place, so it should just a matter of switching the limits. For other challenges, there is other data available from fitness apps that Strava takes into account for other calculations, like # of steps for average stride length calculations, so it’s a matter of the new data totals and a limit, or two changes, to existing algorithms, to create new challenges that would be fun and beneficial beyond fun for users!

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An Algorithmic Idea for Strava to Eliminate Cheating

The Strava platform has a definite cheating problem. Not definitely got a cheating problem. They got a definite cheating problem that is unquestionably possible to prove. People are able to complete their segments at record speeds not even possible in a car to get top place in those standings. They are able to traverse distances or elevations not even possible in machines accessible to the normal person to top the standings in monthly challenges. Some of this is unintentional, due to fitness device GPS confusion, but a lot of it is not. Data just don’t, and definitely can’t, match up like with lower than even regular cadence in running point to point distances, resulting in multiple blocks per stride.

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Tomlov G1200 7″ LCD Digital Microscope First Impressions

I haven’t written in a while, prose or poetry, because I’ve been preoccupied with a few other things. One is time sensitive, which is learning about investing, so the market won’t make a correction before I am ready to jump in. The other is not, which is taking my interest in artistic photography of the microscopic to another level to get some prints in the future. For that, I have gotten myself a portable digital microscope capable of producing 12 megapixel images, with this Tomlov G1200 7″ LCD Digital Microscope.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CTC0Aa2LPNN/

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