An irregularly-scheduled roundup of Brett’s favorite web discoveries.

An irregularly-scheduled roundup of Brett’s favorite web discoveries.

Charles Broskoski tells the history of Are.na, a platform for doing research online, so far—why and how it began, questions that guided its development, and how it promotes life-long education using today's internet with access to almost infinite information.

With The Iconfactory launching Project Tapestry this week, I was reminded of an indie app that I first started testing a few months ago. feeeed – that’s with four ‘e’s – by Nate Parrott is a feed reader app unlike any other I’ve seen on iOS. Today, with our favorite content scattered across social media

Guess I’ll join in the Duel of the Defaults 😄 I’ve held off since it seemed that most people were iOS users and I’m a Windows/Linux gal. But so many others have joined in and the list was fun to put together. 📧 Email Client: HEY 🕸️ Website: Micro.blog & Namecheap 📝✅ Notes + Todos: Tiddlywiki via Tiddlyhost.com 📸 Photo Management: Amazon Photos 🗓️ Calendar: Outlook 🎁 Cloud file storage: Onedrive 👽 Contacts: The standard Android app 🌐 Browser: Brave (desktop) & Kiwi (Android) 💬 Chat: The standard Android app 🔖 Bookmarks: Micro.

Yesterday, Apple released Apple Music Replay, its annual recap of Apple Music subscribers’ listening habits. The site is beautifully designed with images of artists coming to life with video when you’re not scrolling the page. Included this year are: A highlight reel Top artists Top songs Top albums Top genres Top playlists Top radio stations

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An irregularly-scheduled roundup of Brett’s favorite web discoveries.

Last year we named RSS client Reeder 4 the Best App Update as part of the MacStories Selects awards for a good reason. Reeder has been one of the best-designed RSS apps available for a very long time. With the release of version 4, developer Silvio Rizzi rebuilt the app on a modern foundation from

Links are the currency of information overload and distraction. There’s more media available than we could ever get to in a lifetime, and more things we might want to buy, places may want to visit, and other things to explore online than can be fit into a day. The same problem exists in our work

With a relatively recent update around views in the beta of Readwise’s Reader service beta, I am now getting deeper into its use and building it into my various workflows in an aim to help me better manage and process the various feeds of information I have coming in. The Reader service includes an option to accept input via e-mail for newsletters, etc. While I plan to set up a number of e-mail redirect rules in my personal Gmail account to push some newsletters into the service, I also have a backlog of newsletters I want to pick from and pass them to Reader. I didn’t want to blanket forward sets at this point and drown my Reader feeds, so I decided I wanted to redirect on a per e-mail basis. Fortunately, I use Mailmate as my Mac e-mail client of choice, and I ended up scripting something I think provides an easy way of adding this sort of functionality for yourself.

An irregularly-scheduled roundup of Brett’s favorite web discoveries.

OptOut aims to be a daily news app "100% free from corporate media narratives."

Saving articles and links from the Internet for later isn’t new, but it’s something that has drawn renewed interest from developers over the past year or so, including the makers of Matter, who are reexamining the approaches of the past through a modern lens. Apps like Instapaper and Read It Later, which became Pocket, pioneered

“People like to talk about music. This is a tool to easily see other people’s music taste.”

An irregularly-scheduled roundup of Brett’s favorite web discoveries.

I’m really excited about the latest update to GoodLinks for iPhone. The app has always had some of the best automation support of any link management or read-later app I’ve used. However, with version 1.7, which was released last week, GoodLinks has taken its automation tools to a new level, opening up more ways to

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