Table applications are here: TAPESTRY, Reeder, and a new way to read summaries

People at iconfactory, which once made a wonderful Twitter customer It is called TwitterrificA new application was launched on Tuesday. It is called textureIt is an intersection between the social application and the news reader. The application can absorb extracts of all kinds: a person’s Bluesky posts, your favorite videos from YouTube Creator, new blog posts, and all your podcasts. You can add extracts, and they appear to them in a time order. No recommendations, there are no algorithms, just what is the iConfactory “Personal and Unified Table” of the content you care about.

TAPESTRY contains a set of smart methods to filter your content as well. You can choose the keywords to “mysterious”, which will make them in Tainstry much smaller, or you can conceal them and remove them from the entire timetable. You can search across all extracts simultaneously, and create time schedules within your schedule – I have prepared one for my podcast food, for example, TAPESTRY is a traffic podcast operator. The texture of both your content and your place in the schedule coincides with the devices, and gives you a lot of control of how things appear.

I was using TAPESTRY in the trial version for a period of time, and I love the app completely. It is somewhat essential so far, and many of the best customization features are closed behind a monthly subscription per month or $ 20. But the colored iconfactory aesthetic in this app around this app, there is a lot of DNA for Twitterrific design in Tapestry.

What I love more, though, is the idea behind Tapestry. In fact, there is a full type of applications such as this application, which I took to invite “schedule applications”. To date, in addition to the fabric, there is Readerand illegibleand Feesand SurfingAnd a few others. They all have a little different interface and ideas, but they all have the same basic hypothesis: that everything is largely on the Internet is just a nutrition. And you may want a better place to read.

Table applications are a kind of spiritual back of RSS readers like Google Reader and Feedly. (Some of them, such as Reeder and Unread, are only updated versions of RSS readers for a long time.) Years ago, RSS readers have been designed to help you keep all your blogs and websites in order, when keeping your blogs was a lot of work . Now the task is very more difficult. You are following creators on Tiktok, Instagram and YouTube, keeping pace with your favorite memes on Tumblr and all news on Bluesky, update your favorite Subreddits over and over, and check your favorite news sites several times as well. None of these platforms overlap because its business incentives make your life miserable, but when all these things boil, they are just feeding the content.

You cannot completely Replace your entire presence on the Internet by applying a timetable because many of our presence on the Internet interactive. You can read Bluesky posts in the schedule application, but you cannot love or reply; You can watch a video on YouTube, but you cannot walk in the comments. You may be able to do so – open and open social networks, make this exchange possible, and for this reason I think Surf, which allows you to like, respond and comment in addition to reading only, Wonderful and ambitious idea.

Even in the worst cases, I love the schedule applications as shortcuts; It is actually the fastest opening TAPESTRY and find the latest MKBHD video from YouTube, and click on the subscriptions, and Sidescroll until I see the logo.

The biggest challenge for schedule applications is that they are mainly required to be everything for all people. The Great Timeline app must provide a first -class reading experience and one of the full feature podcast platform and pass away from a beautiful video player. To date, Reeder is the app that you have tried and it is the best that allows you to filter according to the type of content or through the source, it can run almost anything in the queue, and it is good to look at it. He even has a long way, however, most of these other applications are late.

These applications can take some accustomed to. If you are coming from the RSS reader, where everything has the same format – address, image, introduction, link – the schedule application will look desperately messy. If you are coming from Social, where everything moves quickly, and there is more to see it every time you withdraw to update it, the timeline that you get guaranteed is guaranteed to feel bored compared.

But I think that the schedule applications are exactly the thing we need for our Internet now. Perhaps one day we will get everything completely mutual and will be magical and life will be. Until then, there is something strong in taking all your favorite things – and I really recommend choosing your favorite things only – and putting them in one place. Create a timetable that you can finish every day, maybe even every time you open the application. Just scroll what you chose to pass. Then close the application, confident of the fact that you saw the things you care about, and go to do something else. There will be more to catch up next time.