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Do you have any suggestions? I have some already in my list which I am still not satisfied yet:

  • medium/media
  • asset/assets
  • publication/publications
  • resource/resources
  • source/sources
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One of the senses of content is a pretty close match.

1.4 Information made available by a website or other electronic medium.
        ‘online content providers’
Lexico

From a different source (which expands content beyond online mediums):

In publishing, art, and communication, content is the information and experiences that are directed toward an end-user or audience. ... Content can be delivered via many different media including the Internet, cinema, television, radio, smartphones, audio CDs, books, e-books, magazines, and live events, such as speeches, conferences, and stage performances.
Wikipedia

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  • Thanks @jxh for the suggestion. I am looking for a word that would cover both digital and physical content.
    – Thriverist α
    Commented Jul 13, 2020 at 22:58
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    @Thriveristα: Content is not restricted to online mediums. I expanded the Wikipedia quote to indicate that.
    – jxh
    Commented Jul 13, 2020 at 23:02
  • @Thriveristα I am looking for a word that would cover both digital and physical content. "Content" does that - it expresses a general set of contents of any sort of anything.
    – Greybeard
    Commented Jul 13, 2020 at 23:09
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    Ordinary people do not refer to their books, videos, etc. as content any more than they refer to them as media, so if the aim is to find a word that an ordinary user would perceive as natural (rather than a part of a jargon), then content is not much of an improvement over media.
    – jsw29
    Commented Jul 15, 2020 at 15:29
  • @jsw29: Media seems more technical, because it actually refers to the delivery channels of information, and not the information itself. I suggest content as a fairly contemporary way to refer to the material being provided to and obtained from various sources.
    – jxh
    Commented Jul 15, 2020 at 16:29
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How about stuff? From Lexico:

stuff: Matter, material, articles, or activities of a specified or indeterminate kind that are being referred to, indicated, or implied.

You could use stuff to describe one's books, videos, articles, podcasts, movies, music, artwork, etc.

You could say, "Add your stuff", "Find your stuff", "My stuff", etc.

Stuff would encompass physical and digital content.

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  • thanks for your comment. "Stuff" makes a lot of sense in covering the content, but it sounds to me a bit "trivial". But its the nice suggestion, I'll put it in the list :)
    – Thriverist α
    Commented Jul 14, 2020 at 7:56
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    @Thriveristα, it begins to look like you are imposing two contradictory constraints on the term you are seeking: in the question you say that you don't want the word to be too 'technical', but now you also say that you don't want it to be 'trivial'. The first requirement seems to amount to its not being a part of a jargon, the second seems to amount to its being a part of a jargon.
    – jsw29
    Commented Jul 14, 2020 at 17:13
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After comments under my original answer that clarify the question, I have had to change my answer.

The context for this is provided in the question Different word for “idea” in book, videos, articles, podcasts, movies, music, artwork, etc.?

In that question, it asks for a different word for idea. As such, this answer and that answer are in a kind of lockstep. In that question, I proposed that the alternate word for idea should be information.

As such, the the word to describe the medium that conveys information is source:

[Merriam-Webster]
1 b (3) : one that supplies information

As such, the phrases in the question can be paraphrased as follows:

  • Add your information source.
  • Find your information source.

Note that source was considered and rejected when this question was posed. However, it's only not entirely idiomatic when thinking of an idea source, where idea was the other word making up a resultant phrase. If the other word is information, then information source is completely idiomatic and common.

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  • thanks a lot for the suggestion. I think "aid" matches the meaning but I feel like it doesn't fit the context.
    – Thriverist α
    Commented Jul 14, 2020 at 7:59
  • @Thriveristα What is the context you're thinking of, if not a learning aid? Or let me put it another way. What's an example of such a thing that is not a learning aid? (Or educational aid or entertainment aid?)
    – Jason Bassford
    Commented Jul 14, 2020 at 13:01
  • My bad not elaborate. You could read also one other of my questions to clarify the context. In general, the system has different types of content (aid). Each content has different ideas. Now, if I say "let's discuss an idea from an aid", it sounds a bit weird. :)
    – Thriverist α
    Commented Jul 14, 2020 at 13:22
  • @Thriveristα I looked at your other question. I still think my suggestion makes sense. Rather than idea, you would have knowledge (which would be the answer to that question), and aid would be the corresponding word here. In short, it wouldn't be idea medium but knowledge aid. Still, it's confusing that this question doesn't have the context it needs within the question itself—or that the context is still in flux, pending the answer to the other question …
    – Jason Bassford
    Commented Jul 14, 2020 at 15:41
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    @Thriveristα You're right. When you say information source, it's the source you're talking about. But when if you say source information, you're talking about the information that belongs to the source.
    – Jason Bassford
    Commented Jul 15, 2020 at 13:38
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My consideration: asset. Definition of asset: a useful or valuable thing or person.

Now, let's break it down. asset is not a less of jargon than medium or content, but it is a common word, which people are using in a day to day life. Also, given the system is about storing valuable media, sharing its idea, I think asset would signify a bit of the meaning there, like treating these media like assets.

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  • The connotation of asset is one that provides some sort of net-positive value, and there is an associated antonym, liability. So using asset may unfairly bias the ideas/materials/information toward some direction that would be considered "positive". This works, though, if you are wanting to impart the concept of something that needs to be guarded or protected.
    – jxh
    Commented Jul 15, 2020 at 23:55
  • Although, it is true that asset can, according to dictionary definitions, be used for anything that has any kind of value, the term is most often used for things that have substantial commercial value, so some people may find it odd to to hear it used for something that may have, commercially, only nominal value. Of the terms listed here, I would 'vote' for materials.
    – jsw29
    Commented Jul 16, 2020 at 16:01
  • @jsw29 you had a good point because I was also afraid of the same thing. Do you mean material in place of medium? Then what would you suggest for the idea of materials?
    – Thriverist α
    Commented Jul 16, 2020 at 18:33

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