Something else I noticed is how you use italics words in between to stress the importance of that word. Thats a nice little touch. I will use it for my work emails to emphasize a word. 👍🏻
With bold and italics, less is often more. Rule of thumb is that italics indicates word or syllable stress in the way you'd hear someone emphasise a word when they speak. Bold highlights importance of a word or phrase.
For larger chunks of text, italics can just visually set apart a section, e.g. to clearly indicate it's a quote or a side note.
Remember that italics and/or bold isn't obvious to everyone, due to screen settings and general attentiveness. Where used in extreme moderation, putting a word in caps or between asterisks can ensure the emphasis WILL be seen without being annoying.
This is very helpful Kyna, thank you. Especially as I’m just getting started so I can put this into action straight away.
The article itself is a great example because as I was reading it my mind experienced a “satisfaction” and felt minimal resistance. Only conscious of the fact because you were explaining it. Thanks.
In your usual adherence to truth, you lay out how, with intent, conscious formatting and clean thought, your work reaches such a high caliber. Your pursuit of attaining a high degree WWR is what often makes me consider your work concise. (I like how this key concept has it's parallel in power sports: Power to Weight Ratio. Something the top performers strive to attain an edge with.)
The intent of the formatting is what dictates it, not the rule for structure itself, is what came to the surface for me In your video. Proper presentation makes it palatable, intriguing and, engaging. This also has the added benefits of greater recall for the reader as well. You're not just hacking the psyche, you're pre-organizing for ease of filing and retreaval, further increasing the value!
Basically what my dad said, too — applications way beyond trading! 100% applicable in the workplace. Shocking really, how many people (even 'professional' writers) don't realise formatting isn't just about aesthetics.
Hi Kyna - Those are good points to take note of.
Something else I noticed is how you use italics words in between to stress the importance of that word. Thats a nice little touch. I will use it for my work emails to emphasize a word. 👍🏻
With bold and italics, less is often more. Rule of thumb is that italics indicates word or syllable stress in the way you'd hear someone emphasise a word when they speak. Bold highlights importance of a word or phrase.
For larger chunks of text, italics can just visually set apart a section, e.g. to clearly indicate it's a quote or a side note.
Remember that italics and/or bold isn't obvious to everyone, due to screen settings and general attentiveness. Where used in extreme moderation, putting a word in caps or between asterisks can ensure the emphasis WILL be seen without being annoying.
This is very helpful Kyna, thank you. Especially as I’m just getting started so I can put this into action straight away.
The article itself is a great example because as I was reading it my mind experienced a “satisfaction” and felt minimal resistance. Only conscious of the fact because you were explaining it. Thanks.
Great to hear, Courtney!
I've always had a knack for writing, but I could definitely improve my formatting skills. Thanks for the post!
Glad it helped! And yes, formatting is shockingly overlooked — huge impact on overall quality, yet so simple to improve :)
I was looking forward to this one, great job. Hmmm "word-to-wisdom ratio" I like that 😝
Also, don't know if it's just me but the audio on the video is not working
It has audio. I don't know if that's a bug, or a muted video or tab your end. It's also viewable in Loom: [removed link].
Got it to work... issue on my ends whoops lol
It's always a pleasure to read your articles.
In your usual adherence to truth, you lay out how, with intent, conscious formatting and clean thought, your work reaches such a high caliber. Your pursuit of attaining a high degree WWR is what often makes me consider your work concise. (I like how this key concept has it's parallel in power sports: Power to Weight Ratio. Something the top performers strive to attain an edge with.)
The intent of the formatting is what dictates it, not the rule for structure itself, is what came to the surface for me In your video. Proper presentation makes it palatable, intriguing and, engaging. This also has the added benefits of greater recall for the reader as well. You're not just hacking the psyche, you're pre-organizing for ease of filing and retreaval, further increasing the value!
Thanks Kyna.
Thanks, Mark! Yes, you need to understand the 'why' behind any technique to know which to use when, and how to use it to maximum effect.
Great post. Not just for trading. It applies for every professional activity including business slides presentation. Thanks. Keep the awesome work. 🙏
Basically what my dad said, too — applications way beyond trading! 100% applicable in the workplace. Shocking really, how many people (even 'professional' writers) don't realise formatting isn't just about aesthetics.
Glad you found it helpful, Nuno :)