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Creativerly @creativerly.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Another year reflecting on the apps that became my favourite ones throughout the past year. Thank you Tot @iconfactory.com, Book Track @simonemontalto.bsky.social, Reeder @Silvio Rizzi, Croissant @benricem.bsky.social + @vegh.ca, Ripples by #MykolaHarmash 😊✌️ creativerly.com/creativerlys-...
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Creativerly's Favourite Apps of 2025
It is time again to sit down and reflect on the apps that became my favourite ones over the course of the past twelve months.
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Creativerly @creativerly.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Flyleaf is the read-it-later app that gives you a truly unique reading experience: flip through your articles like you would read a book. creativerly.com/read-article...
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Read articles like books – with Flyleaf
Flyleaf is the read-it-later app that gives you a truly unique reading experience: flip through your articles like you would read a book.
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Creativerly @creativerly.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
The sixth part of Tiny macOS utility apps I love, focuses on apps to enhancing your macOS experience, helping you finding files fast, and quickly checking your camera before your next call. Read it here: creativerly.com/tiny-macos-u...
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Tiny macOS utility apps I love – Part 6
The sixth part of Tiny macOS utility apps I love focuses on apps to enhancing your macOS experience, helping you finding files fast, and quickly checking your camera before your next call.
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Creativerly @creativerly.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Creativerly 348 is out with a new post about the threat of AI-powered browsers, #Capacities introducing Kanban view, #KagiNews wants to help you keeping up with news, lovely articles by @justincox.com, @Freethink.com, @anildash.com, Annie Mueller, and more. creativerly.com/the-internet...
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The Internet Was Doomed From the Start & The Web Does not Need AI Browsers – It Needs Us to Fight Back
Capacities introduces Kanban view, Kagi News uses AI to help you keeping up with the world, make rules, break rules, and more in this week's issue of Creativerly.
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Creativerly @creativerly.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
"Browsers" like ChatGPT Atlas aren’t progress, they’re a threat to the open web. They replace real browsing with corporate summaries, privacy risks, hype. The web thrives on your control, not AI middlemen. Let’s fight for a web that works for us, not tech giants. creativerly.com/the-web-does...
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The web does not need AI browsers – It needs us to fight back
AI browsers like ChatGPT Atlas don’t improve the web, they replace it with corporate-controlled summaries and surveillance. People rush to adopt them, ignoring privacy risks and ethical flaws. The…
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Popt App @poptapp.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
While we're busy adding cool features to Popt, @creativerly.bsky.social published the first in-depth overview of our baby and it's positively glowing!✨  creativerly.com/p/463a8d54-3... There's still much work ahead. But we're so glad that Philipp gets what makes Popt special 🫶 
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As smart and seamless as note-taking can get – with Popt
Tired of complex note-taking apps? Discover Popt, a smart, simple iOS app that auto-tags contacts, places, and dates, making notes fast, fun, and effortless. Read on and learn more about it.
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Creativerly @creativerly.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Why do we polish our words for the public, but keep it real with friends? The best writing feels like a conversation, not a performance. What if we just wrote like ourselves, everywhere? creativerly.com/approach-wri...
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Approach writing in public as conversation instead of a performance
On why online writing often loses its personal touch in favor of polished prose, exploring how authentic voices like 404 Media and Marisa Kabas are changing the game, and why crafting engaging…
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Creativerly @creativerly.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
The sixth part of "Tiny macOS utility apps I love" is out. This time I wrote about Supercharge by @sindresorhus.com, #HoudahSpot, and #HandMirror by #RafaConde. Find the post below + make sure to check out the previous parts to discover lovely tiny macOS apps. creativerly.com/tiny-macos-u...
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Tiny macOS utility apps I love – Part 6
The sixth part of Tiny macOS utility apps I love focuses on apps to enhancing your macOS experience, helping you finding files fast, and quickly checking your camera before your next call.
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Creativerly @creativerly.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Creativerly 345 is out with #Sublime introducing Chat, #Space – a new app for guided planning, @Poptapp introducing Movie and TV Show auto tags, lovely articles by #ChristianWaugh, #CurtisMcHale, #ChristopherButler, #RichardFisher, and more. Read it here: creativerly.com/how-to-do-me...
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How to do mental time travel & Space is a new app for guided planning
Sublime introduces Chat, Popt now supports Movie and TV Show tags, Writing in the Age of Endless Options and Bad Advice on how to be Productive, and more in this week's issue of Creativerly.
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Creativerly @creativerly.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
With all the ongoing #browser enshitification, by injecting #AI everywhere, I am incredible thankful for cozy, simply, and focused browsers like @gethorse.com. Modern and clean interface, intuitive features, privacy-focused, keyboard-focused, simply lovely. creativerly.com/i-do-not-lik...
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I do not like horses except this one - with Horse Browser
Horse Browser is a minimalist internet browser, designed for research and work, packed with intuitive features, and an overall cozy and quiet place for all your projects.
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Creativerly @creativerly.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Note-taking does not have to be complicated, messy, and system-driven, it should be smart, seamless, simple, and fun. @Popt is an iOS app that auto-tags contacts, places, and dates, making notes fast, fun, and effortless. creativerly.com/as-smart-and...
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As smart and seamless as note-taking can get – with Popt
Tired of complex note-taking apps? Discover Popt, a smart, simple iOS app that auto-tags contacts, places, and dates, making notes fast, fun, and effortless. Read on and learn more about it.
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Creativerly @creativerly.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Creativerly 344 is out now with @pagecord.com - a super simple and easy way to publish your thoughts online, @detahq Surf 1.0 launching today, lovely articles by @tante.cc, @asmartbear.com, @taramcmullin.com, #TheTinyWisdom, + more. Read it here: creativerly.com/tiny-steps-a...
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Tiny steps and a long walk & New ways to collaborate with Creativerly
Pagecord lets you publish your writing effortlessly, Deta Surf 1.0 launches on October 1st, when being an "expert" is harmful, and more in this week's issue of Creativerly.
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Creativerly @creativerly.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
#Mastodon and #Bluesky are constantly growing. Decentralized social networks are here to stay. What is even more exciting about this, is that an increasing number of developers build lovely apps to interact with those decentralized social networks. creativerly.com/the-tools-fo...
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The tools for decentralized social networks – How to interact with Mastodon and Bluesky
Discover the rise of decentralized social networks like Mastodon and Bluesky as traditional platforms increasingly face criticism. Learn about essential third-party tools enhancing these networks,…
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Creativerly @creativerly.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
I am not the first to tell you that, but you don't need Google Analytics. There are loads of privacy-focused, ethical, alternatives, respecting your visitors' privacy. I gathered a bunch of them in a post, so you get an overview of some of the available options. creativerly.com/google-analy...
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A list of privacy-friendly Google Analytics alternatives.
If you want to get insights about the traffic happening on your website you probably came across Google Analytics. Let me tell you: it is bloated, hard to use, and scraping user data. In this blog…
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Creativerly @creativerly.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
#Creativerly 340 is out and packed with a new deep dive about @poptapp.bsky.social, fresh news and updates from @anew.social, #Chaps, #DetaSurf, and lovely articles by @Annie Mueller, @philipptemmel.com, and others. Read it here: creativerly.com/seeding-for-c... Thank you Popt for sponsoring this
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Seeding for creativity & Rediscover iPhone notes on the go
As smart and seamless as note-taking can get, A New Social introduces Bounce Beta, ritualize anything, and more in this week's issue of Creativerly.
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Creativerly @creativerly.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
In the newest deep dive I wrote about #Almus, an app that transforms your #journal into an intelligent companion by analyzing your journal entries to discover patterns and useful insights to help you making the most out of your journaling practice. Read more here:
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Transforming your journal into an intelligent companion – with Almus
Struggling to start or maintain a journaling habit? Discover Almus, a simple, AI-powered journaling app that helps you capture thoughts, uncover hidden patterns, and reflect with ease. No complex systems, just meaningful insights from your own words.
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Creativerly @creativerly.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
ICYMI, the newest Creativerly newsletter is out with - A new deep dive about #Almus, an app that transforms your journal into an intelligent companion - Fresh news by #Capacities and #Anytype - Lovely posts by @conversationalist.org, #Psyche, @chockenberry and more!
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Liquid Glass. Why? & Transforming your journal into an intelligent companion
Seeding for creativity, Capacities introduces Label property, how to thrive as a highly sensitive person, and more in this week's issue of Creativerly.
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Philipp @philipptemmel.com · 06/05/2025
For @creativerly.bsky.social I wrote over 7,000 words about apps that make it even more joyful to interact with @#Mastodon and @bsky.app. No matter if you are looking for third-party clients, apps to cross-post, edit and update threads, or other things, I hope I got you covered.
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The tools for decentralized social networks – How to interact with Mastodon and Bluesky
Discover the rise of decentralized social networks like Mastodon and Bluesky as traditional platforms increasingly face criticism. Learn about essential third-party tools enhancing these networks, from clients like Ivory and Ice Cubes to cross-posting apps like Croissant.
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Creativerly @creativerly.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
#Perplexity, the AI startup that plagiarized, dodged paywalls, ignored robots.txt, and shattered the foundations of trust of the web, announced its own browser. Based on Perplexity's past and its CEO's behaviors, looking ahead I try to prepare myself for the worst.
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Comet by Perplexity – Will AI reinvent the web browser?
SPOILER: It will not.
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Creativerly @creativerly.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
This move by @obsidian.md shows once again, that they keep on innovating, making their app even more accessible, while also fostering a community of supporters.
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Obsidian is now free for work – Commercial license becomes optional
Obsidian announced that the previously needed Commercial License to use the app for two or more employees within an organization, now becomes optional, making the app even more accessible.
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Creativerly @creativerly.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
#Amazon keeps delivering more and more reasons why you shouldn't use its platform, as it now announced that it will remove a feature that put users in control over the ebooks they bought through #Kindle.
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Download your Amazon eBooks now, or you will get locked in
Amazon delivers yet another reason why you shouldn't give its platform any attention, as it now announced to remove a feature that put users in control over the ebooks they bought through Kindle.
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Creativerly @creativerly.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
From building and designing a non-functional AI wearable, that was overpriced, did not solve any of technology's problems, now produced a ton of waste, to helping inject artificial intelligence into... in-house printers. creativerly.com/hp-acquires-parts-o…
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HP acquires parts of Humane, the solution to none of technology's problems
It shouldn't be any surprise, but it still feels insane that a company who raised $230 million, made huge claims, failed to deliver, tried to sell the whole thing for $1 billion, still gets partially acquired for $116 million. The story of Humane.
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Creativerly @creativerly.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
My post on the need for a better #Goodreads alternative recieved an update: section headers + table of contents component to better browse/navigate through the post, as well as 5 additional apps and services. 😊 creativerly.com/there-is-still-the-…
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There is still the need for a better Goodreads alternative
Goodreads is still providing the worst experience when it comes to book tracking. Oku and Literal tried to create the modern Goodreads alternative users were hoping for. But are they still active?
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Creativerly @creativerly.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
Creativerly‘s Favourite Apps of 2024 is out, the last newsletter of the year is scheduled, and I am logging off for the rest of 2024. Thank you for your continuous support 😊 See you all in 2025 ✨and only the best for the new year. creativerly.com/creativerlys-favour…
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Creativerly's Favourite Apps of 2024
As we wrap up 2024, it is time again to gather Creativerly's Favourite Apps of the past year.
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Creativerly @creativerly.bsky.social · 23/10/2024
Creativerly 296 is out w/ a new post about what matters most when choosing a note-taking app, news from #Adobe, #Fable, #GSAP, as well as insightful articles by #ClearerThinking, #BrianElliott, #MariannaPogosyan, #CarlPullein. Thank you mymind for sponsoring this issue ✨
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Measure By Time, Not Output & Webflow acquires GSAP
Adobe announced Project Concept, Fable is winding down, the wrong way to define productivity, remember everything, and a lot more in this week's issue of Creativerly.
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Creativerly @creativerly.bsky.social · 09/10/2024
Creativerly 294 is out with a new post about half-life #productivity software, news and updates from #Reddit, #Croissant, #Muse, #Juno, #Halide, and #Sketch, and articles by #BrigidSchulte, #ScottHYoung, #JillSuttie, and #TeresaMira. buff.ly/4dHrB1V
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Creativerly @creativerly.bsky.social · 02/10/2024
Creativerly 293 is out w/ a new post about the topic of why finding the right browser is an overwhelming task, news from #iAWriter, #Raycast, #Frond, #Firefox, #Figma, and insightful articles from #MaricelaArizaga, #LindseyEllefson, #Pirijan, #JonathanLethem Read it here:
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Towards a better whiteboard & The web of choices
Why finding the right browser is such an overwhelming task, iA Writer shutting down its Android app, Raycast raises $30m Series B, and a lot more in this week's issue of Creativerly.
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Creativerly @creativerly.bsky.social · 01/10/2024
Team messaging apps became bloated, complex, and overwhelming. Instead of supporting our work, they are disrupting it. Somehow, people are defaulting to instant messaging, and colleagues get bombarde with constant notifications. Not everything needs to be instant.
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Team messaging is broken
Team messaging apps became bloated, complex, and overwhelming. Instead of supporting our work, they are disrupting it. However exciting new apps are here to change that.
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Creativerly @creativerly.bsky.social · 25/09/2024
Creativerly 292 is out featuring a new post about why #teammessaging is broken, updates and news from #Bear, #Setapp, #Linear, #Noor, and #Readymag, as well as insightful articles from #ScottHYoung, #ArthurCBrooks, #AnnaBorges, and #TeresaMira. Read it here:
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Mastering our mind for better ideas & Setapp Mobile beta is here
Team messaging is broken, unlock your full potential today, Linear launches mobile apps, eight ways to banish misery, and a lot more in this week's issue of Creativerly.
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Creativerly @creativerly.bsky.social · 24/09/2024
Are you on the hunt for a minimalist internet browser, designed for research, packed with intuitive features, an overall cozy place for all your projects? In my post about #HorseBrowser I explored what sets it apart, how it assists your workflows, and why it is worth $99.
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I do not like horses except this one - with Horse Browser
Horse Browser is a minimalist internet browser, designed for research and work, packed with intuitive features, and an overall cozy and quiet place for all your projects.
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Creativerly @creativerly.bsky.social · 23/09/2024
If you have been writing in the past, publishing your writings, and you do exactly that still today, you do not need AI in your writing processes. Those processes are personal, and AI will not turn you into a better writer, or make you more creative.
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The state (and issues) of AI-powered writing apps
AI-powered writing apps are still on the rise. In this post, I explored the current state and issues of them, why they are not turning you into a better writer, and why you should avoid using them.
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Creativerly @creativerly.bsky.social · 12/09/2024
Although the #internet gets flooded with new content every day, with the rise of #AI powered writing apps, people created even more bland and generic content. Writing is creative work, it's personal, and you don't need AI anywhere near that creative work.
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The state (and issues) of AI-powered writing apps
AI-powered writing apps are still on the rise. In this post, I explored the current state and issues of them, why they are not turning you into a better writer, and why you should avoid using them.
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Creativerly @creativerly.bsky.social · 11/09/2024
Creativerly 290 is out featuring a new post on the state of AI-powered writing apps, news like #DetaSpace shutting down, #NaNoWriMo position on AI, Silvio Rizzi's new Reeder app, which is live now, and more Thank you to this week's sponsor, which is Exist (exist.io).
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To be a designer is to be a facilitator & Deta Space is shutting down
The state (and issues) of AI-powered writing apps, track everything and understand your life, the new Reeder app is live, and a lot more in this week's issue of Creativerly.
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Creativerly @creativerly.bsky.social · 10/09/2024
„Tiny macOS utility apps I love“ quickly became the most popular content series on Creativerly. Part 4 is now out, and this time I wrote about an app that gathers powerful switches, one that simplifies time tracking, and another one that keeps your Mac awake. Read it here: buff.ly/3IL5iMu…
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Tiny macOS utility apps I love – Part 4
Tiny macOS utility apps is back with Part 4. In this post I gathered an app that gathers powerful switches, one that simplifies time tracking, and another one that keeps your Mac awake.
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Creativerly @creativerly.bsky.social · 22/08/2024
#Framer + #Webflow became the leading visual development tools, providing almost everyone with the ability of building modern and dynamic websites. #Webstudio is a new app entering the area, it is open-source, feature-rich, and allows the integration of any CMS.
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The open-source Framer and Webflow alternative – with Webstudio
In case you are looking for an open-source Framer or Webflow alternative, Webstudio is the tool you need to check out. Powerful, feature-rich, and offering a lot of flexibility.
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Creativerly @creativerly.bsky.social · 21/08/2024
Creativerly 287 is out featuring a new deep dive about #Webstudio, the open-source #Framer and #Webflow alternative, updates/news from #Humane, #Flipboard, and insightful articles from #StaceDErasmo, #JoannaWeber, #ChaseMcCoy, and #AnilDash. Read it here:
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Between Process and Vision & Flipboard continuing its work for Fediverse
The open-source Framer and Webflow alternative, Humane's daily returns are outpacing sales, the problem with growth, and a lot more in this week's issue of Creativerly.
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Creativerly @creativerly.bsky.social · 20/08/2024
Summarizing research papers, extracting the most relevant and important data, and synthesizing your findings are all time-consuming tasks. However, Elicit makes those tasks pure joy, thanks to powerful features, a beautiful UI, and intuitive actions.
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Summarize papers, extract data, and synthesize your findings – with Elicit
Elicit is the research tool of your dreams, powered by AI, and using it to serve meaningful and thoughtful purposes. It is beautifully-designed, powerful, and ethical. Learn more about it in this…
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Creativerly @creativerly.bsky.social · 19/08/2024
Musk's messy Twitter takeover has pushed people to juggle multiple platforms to stay connected. This has sparked renewed interest in smaller, private spaces. Despite Mastodon’s growth, it still feels cozy. But why do we thrive in smaller communities?
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Intimacy, trust, and friendship - On thriving in smaller community spaces
The defragmentation of social networks has lead to a revived desire for smaller community spaces, focused on specific topics, and fostering meaningful connections and conversations.
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