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Say hello to Readable Podcasts.
Highlight podcasts for the first time ever.
[Full screen, volume up 🔊]
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Introducing Unreal Voices
Our text to speech just got a whole lot better.
🔊 Listen here:
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Over the past 3 months we've been quietly working on our biggest update since starting Matter.
Today, we're exceptionally excited to introduce Matter II – a simpler, more powerful reading tool.
Read about the changes and our journey ahead:
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Our love letter to podcasts:
Discover timeless episodes from great shows.
[🔊 Volume up]
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🪄 A magical new way to share
You can now send any article to the top of a friend's Queue – using iMessage!
No more forgetting shared links. Now, they're top of mind *when it's time to read.*
It's the perfect hand-off between your reading app and your messaging app.
WATCH:
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We're launching a new sister site!
Read Something Wonderful (.com)
A portal to timeless internet writing.
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📖 BIG update for
@AmazonKindle
lovers!
With
@amazon
's exciting new line of Kindles arriving for the holidays (hello, Scribe!), we’re making it easier than ever to read internet content on your Kindle.
1/ First, you can now send to Kindle using the Matter browser extension:
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Big news: Today, we’re opening Matter to the world with the launch of our public beta!
We’re also thrilled to announce we’ve raised a $7M Series A led by GV. GV also led our seed, joining YC and many stellar angels.
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Matter is coming to the big screen!
We're thrilled to introduce the beta version of our web app: a lightning-fast reader for your Queue, including the ability to search, highlight, tag, and listen to audio.
Sign in at .
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NEW: Transcribe YouTube to Text! 🪄
We're thrilled to launch a novel interface that makes it effortless to capture ideas as you watch YouTube.
For the first time, you can highlight, copy, excerpt, search, skim, and read your YouTube videos!
It's magical.
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Today we're thrilled to launch Matter's new web app!
📥 Subs and Staff Picks now available on web!
🧭 Redesigned Nav for Matter II
🏷 Create, apply, and filter tags
🌈 Restyled content lists for greater clarity
⚡️ Keyboard shortcuts for fast queue mgmt
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Have you ever been a top 1% Pocket user?
Reply here – we've got a special surprise for you.
(It's going to be a big week for former Pocket and Instapaper users...!)
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52 🖤 Reads of 2021, a thread...
The writing our readers loved this year spanned centuries, disciplines, and ideological coordinates.
We hope you find an idea or two that fastens in your mind and won't let go.
In no particular order... (0/52) 👇
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Nice write up about us by
@TypingPixels
for
@WSJ
. Thanks for the kind words and congrats on your WSJ debut, Jordan!
"Matter improves vastly on earlier read-later apps like Pocket and Instapaper, letting you easily access news and other stories whenever you get the time"
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Curator’s Choice 2022 🖤
Every day, we hunt for the best writing on the internet.
At the end of 2022, here are the pieces that moved us, surprised us, and stuck with us – and our readers.
We hope you find one or two that matter to you.
In no particular order… (1/25)
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Our faster, sleeker, more powerful browser extension is live! It's packed with new functionality *and* saving is quicker than before, with 1-click save.
🏷️ Add tags!
📝 Take a note
🗃️ Archive
🎁 Coming soon: Save to Kindle
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When one of the team's favorite authors pops up in user voice review.
(Turns out, four of us read – and loved –
@oliverburkeman
's Four Thousand Weeks!)
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New iOS onboarding flow released today. If you're already signed in, you won't see it in the app, so here it is. Designed by
@aaron_porter
and built by
@tianskylan
. They put a lot of 🖤 into this, and it shows.
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New: Resume, Lindy sort, and more ✨
It's that time of the year: best of lists abound! If you're like us, your Queue is growing by the day.
So, for our last release of 2022, we're excited to give you new Queue mgmt tools that make deciding what to read next even easier. 👇️
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📖 Calling all
@AmazonKindle
lovers... You can now send any article from Matter to Kindle in 2 taps!
We've been using this as a team the past couple weeks and in our opinion it's one of the most magical features we've built. We can't wait for you to try it. 🪄
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📱PDFs: Listen & Read on iOS
PDFs have always been hard to read on mobile.
All that pinching, zooming, and recentering breaks your concentration.
Today that changes with the introduction of PDF Reflow in Matter!
Now you can:
• Comfortably read PDFs on your phone.
• See…
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Introducing Magic Inbox!
It’s a simple idea: All your favorite writers, in one place.
We've been working to make it a reality.
A preview of today's release:
⭢ 🏋️ New foundation
⭢ 📰 Browse by publisher (Atlantic, NYT, New Yorker)
⭢ ⭐️ Discover writers
⭢ 🧠 Smart rank
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🎉 Big release: NOTES
We've been polishing the little edges for the past couple weeks and it's finally ready for prime time!
🎯 work by
@zgreen_
and
@tianskylan
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Greetings from San Francisco (where we got together in person for the first time ever)! –🖤 Team Matter
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New this week: Spotlight search 🔎⚡️
* Keyword highlighting + full-text snippets
* Search is now local & instantaneous
* Restrict search to any section of your library
Also...
Pull to refresh is back! Happy Thanksgiving. :)
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NEW: Web highlighter 🖍
Now, you can highlight from your browser using the Matter web extension.
Simply enter Reader Mode (Ctrl + R), then select text to highlight.
TIP: Use the 'H' hotkey to quickly draw spring-loaded highlights.
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𐃏 The
#roamdepot
is live!
We’ve long wanted to build a
@RoamResearch
integration and are excited to ship the official Matter-Roam extension with the depot’s grand opening.
Now you can sync your highlights and annotations directly to your Roam knowledge graph.
Big news. We’ve built an App Store for Roam where extensions will be reviewed for security by the Roam team, developers can charge, and where we’ll be sharing some % of our top line revenue with extension maintainers
We’re calling it
#roamdepot
Follow
@hashbrown490
for details
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New celestial Matter icon 💫
With our 'M' mark, tricky to strike the right balance between visual interest and staying refined.
@Gavmn
nailed it. Beautiful work, as he does.
Credit too to
@generosss
for the 'M dot' pattern that's carried through here.
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🖤 Big Update!
Today, we're launching a new Home Tab that delivers a daily selection of the highest quality reading from the world's best minds.
If you've been with us for a while, you know we’ve experimented with several approaches to curation — Staff Picks, Read Something…
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Today, we're delighted to release one our our most requested integrations:
@obsdmd
!
With our new Obsidian plugin, you can sync your Matter highlights and notes to your Obsidian vault.
Here's
@HunterClarke
(who built the plugin) on how to set it up:
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When we launched audio, we were overwhelmed by the reaction.
And, there was a common request: more human-sounding voices.
Today we're excited to bring you just that. A voice so human it can be hard to distinguish from, well, a human.
Give it a listen (tap unmute):
So very excited for what's coming tomorrow.
Won't look like much, but it will *speak* for itself. 🗣️
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We’ve been quiet, we know.
Since folks have asked, no, we’re not retreating from Twitter. We (still) love Twitter.
We’ve just been heads down on a big project.
It's not AI, but it's magical. Shipping in a couple days.
Stay tuned!🖤
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Pleased to feature a wide range of tech writers in our new Discover section!
Great essayists like
@absoluttig
Product leaders like
@scottbelsky
Sharp roundups like
@venturetwins
Product connoisseurs like
@pierce
Big thinkers like
@KTmBoyle
Who else should we include?
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How will Matter make money?
Today, we’ll answer that question.
And as part of the answer, we’re excited to introduce our Patron membership, a special offer for our early supporters (limit 1,000). 👇️
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@readwiseio
is a beloved tool that helps thousands of readers get the most out of their digital highlights.
Today, we're excited to make it our first integration.
(Special shout to
@akiffpremjee
&
@maxwschulz
, two Readwisevangelists who've been pushing hard for this! 🙌)
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NEW: Podcast Chapters + Summaries ✨
Episodes are now divided into chapters so you can quickly jump to the most interesting parts. Not only that, each chapter comes with its own short summary.
A 4-hour
@lexfridman
interview has never been so easy to navigate!
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Activity Tracking – now in Matter!
Read 10,000 words per week to close your ring.
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The practice we’re most religious about is reviewing the User Voice doc as a team every Tue.
UV distills feedback, praise, bugs that have streamed in over the past week.
It's a messy artifact made up of the good, the bad, & the ugly!
We decided to share this week's 👇 (1/4)️
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Big news. Now you can read all your newsletters – free and paid – in Matter!
We live in a golden age of newsletters.
Problem is, your inbox isn't for reading. Most people want to spend less time there, not more.
A better way awaits...
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We rolled out a new architecture that makes the inbox feed 25x faster for the heaviest users (for whom the feed had gotten excruciatingly slow). It's now 3x faster for the median user and loads in <300ms for 99% users.
A bit more background for the technically curious…
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We're kicking off a major cycle to improve PARSING!
(The dark art of turning messy webpages into clean articles.)
While our parser's performance exceeds legacy read-later apps, it's not yet where we know it can be.
We'll be posting updates in this thread. 👇️
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We're delighted to say... annotations are here!
And, they're social.
This is such a neat feature, we made a little demo to walk you through it:
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Introducing THREAD ROLLUPS: Save Twitter threads to your library to read later.
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Typography can be beautiful as well as practical.
Today we're excited to give Premium users an unprecedented degree of control over the appearance of words, paragraphs, and pages in Matter.
Read on for a tour of your new style options.
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Sometimes a quote is so good, plain text won't do.
So, by popular demand, we've made it easy to generate bold quoteshots, optimized for Twitter readability.
Just draw a highlight and tap:
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Djokovic, Nadal and the Inevitable End by
@JPosnanski
“One of the most superb pieces of writing I have ever seen. If you love tennis, this is a must read. If you don’t love tennis, you should still read it for the beautiful writing.” —h/t
@AnnieDuke
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Audio & highlights are both powerful. Trouble is, you can't highlight if you're not looking at the screen.
Until now.
Introducing AUDIO HIGHLIGHTS: Capture highlights while you listen! 🎧🖍️
To make an audio highlight, simply squeeze both volume buttons at the same time.
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Some personal news...Matter now supports RSS!
You might be wondering, what took so long? Here’s the story... 🧵
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As iPad-first readers, we're *very* glad to ship a number of upgrades to the iPad experience:
* Landscape mode
* Split-screen mode
* Margins are a touch target for scrolling
* Instant highlighting with Apple pencil
PS. The smart keyboard will come in handy next week!
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Introducing our NEW BROWSER EXTENSION! 🧭
Now, in addition to saving for later, you can convert any web article into a beautiful reader mode that toggles dark with a keystroke.
This is our extension's biggest upgrade to date. It won't be the last. ;)
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We love working as a remote team but there's no substitute for getting the gang together.
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The latest version of the Matter Obsidian plugin now includes custom templates! You can tweak the output of all of your Matter highlights and notes to fit your personal knowledge system. Shoutout to
@HunterClarke
for putting together this highly requested feature 🙏
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We've been on the hunt for communities full of thoughtful, curious minds to be Matter's earliest members.
On Deck was a no-brainer.
Welcome,
@beondeck
fellows to Matter!
Come read with us:
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Introducing Minimaps!
It's often useful to get a visual overview of an article so you can quickly gauge its contents and jump to sections of interest.
We've created Minimaps so you can do just that.
From any article, two-finger tap to see the Minimap.
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Most of the best writing was *not* created in the past year.
Yet our feeds are dominated by the past 24 hours, in what
@david_perell
calls the "The Never-Ending Now".
is a counterweight to that, an access point to writing that stands the test of time.
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Audio queuing is finally here! ⏯️
Now you can listen to your newsletters, blogs, and articles as a playlist.
Read while you walk. Read while you drive. Read while you fold laundry. You get the gist. 🤓
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📲 NEW: iOS Share Extension v2
💫 New save endpoint for FASTER response
⏳️Loading state for more accurate request status
📝 Take a note to add context
🗃️ Archive from the extension
🏷️ Now you can tag + archive
🙏 Thanks,
@tianskylan
, for the major upgrade!
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iOS 16 is here.
It opens the gates to a feature that will change the game for readers.
It’s not widgets, lock screen, shortcuts, or anything on this list.
Coming soon...
Your iPhone is about to receive a new update on Monday.
And it's going to transform how you experience your phone forever.
Here are 9 new features that will change everything:
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You’ve probably felt the spark of joy that comes from rediscovering an old idea and seeing it in new light.
We want to give you more of these moments.
So, we’re thrilled to introduce Rediscover: A new feature that surfaces your past insights.
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🚀 We're live on Product Hunt!
Please take 30s to help us launch, and thank you all for the phenomenal support.
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Matter is now significantly faster. ⚡️
(Thanks to a major round of optimizations from Notorious R.O.B. and
@HunterClarke
.)
Look at these beautiful, sharply declining charts. 📉
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We’re looking for exceptional people to help us push the frontier of reading technology.
Are you a designer or engineer who *really cares* about building great software? Let's talk.
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Introducing your new reading Inbox!
Getting newsletters should be joyful, not stressful.
This update makes it fast and *fun* to sift through the latest from your favorite writers.
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We’re hiring – one software engineer!
It's a dream role if you want to use LLMs to shape the future of reading.
Ideal candidate: Experienced backend engineer with data + ML + NLP orientation. Actively tinkering with LLMs. Loves reading. Hates meetings.
Email ben
@getmatter
.com
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Hot on the heels of Notion unveiling its API (beta), we're excited to release an integration with Notion!
Sync to Notion to have your highlights where you write.
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✨ A little quality of life improvement for the long weekend: Drag to reorder your Queue! ✨
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Rolling the Boulder Uphill
(How Matter Approaches Parsing)
One of a reading app's most important jobs is converting unruly web pages and email newsletters into “reader view” — a beautiful, distraction-free interface optimized for reading.
At Matter, the benefits of “reader…
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Dear Newsletter Lovers:
Today, we're excited to announce a much easier way to get your newsletters in Matter!
As an alternative to forwarding, you can now *connect your Gmail* in just a few taps.
This has been long in the making, and we hope it's worth the wait. Happy reading
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🎧 We just rolled out a major upgrade to our audio backend that makes audio available for all articles with reader mode, including those in your Inbox. (No more "audio is unavailable" messages.)
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Hot on the heels of Quoteshots, we're excited to release our first widget — curated highlights!
Everyday, we'll select fresh highlights showcasing noteworthy articles & writers.
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So very excited for what's coming tomorrow.
Won't look like much, but it will *speak* for itself. 🗣️
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✨INFO DENSITY
We've redesigned the Queue to be more info dense.
Now, instead of seeing 4-5 items on an iPhone, you'll see 7-8.
Icons for tags, favorites, highlights have been compressed and restyled.
Small touch: Old dates are accented to draw attention to evergreen content.
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Our last release of the year, a bundle of small improvements to make reading in Matter just a tad smoother:
- code block rendering
- save links from long press
- return to location
- better publisher metadata
- autoplay: on
- undo actions
Happy holidays from the team!
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In our world of content overload, curation has never been more vital. Curators cut through the noise to help us find ideas that matter.
Today we're excited to give you a new place to curate your reading to the world: your public profile.
<your_handle>
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Today your profile gets a makeover!
Are you a writer? You can now add a button linking to your newsletter, Patreon, or other signup page.
Are you a curator? Your recommendations and public highlights have a new home on the fourth tab.
Update to Build
#407
for your new profile.
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Today, we're excited to introduce a major upgrade to our article parsing engine: you can now save articles when you're signed into paywalls!
PS. We're continually improving our parsing. This week, we've also added support for code blocks.
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In other news, streak tracker launching today. 👀
.
@matter
is App of the Day 🎉
Congrats to the team and especially our ace iOS engineer
@tianskylan
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Words are my matter. (Ursula K. Le Guin)
It's been a motto of sorts, now passed to our Patrons.
Who, like us, believe ideas are primitives, every bit as real as matter.
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🥂 Highlighting Upgrades: Today, we're excited to bring you an even better highlighting experience on iPhone and iPad!
1/ Edit
2/ Go to location
3/ Export
4/ Offline mode
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Today, we’re making it easier for you to see highlights from the people you follow in Matter.
We’re particularly excited about this feature because we love marginalia! And, have heard from so many of you that it’s part of what you love about reading in Matter.
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UPDATE ✨ Do you look forward to our weekly roundups? You can now find our weekly roundup in the app every weekend!
Fun fact: This feature was built by our intern, Rhea
@rheamalik0612
who was 15 when she wrote us a great cold email to start it all... 🧵
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✨ Readable Podcast improvements:
• Filter Queue for Podcasts, Articles, and/or YouTube.
• Play sheet is more delightful (see: button animations).
• Scrubber is more streamlined.
• Transitions are smoother.
• Haptic feedback is more dialed.
Chapters + Summarization coming…
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Update: This is a big one! If parsing is blocked by Javascript or cookie requirements, we re-parse using a more powerful technique.
This resolves 138 bug reports and 21,000 pieces of incorrectly parsed content. Woot!
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Beyond the obvious (Figma, Slack, Notion, etc), special gratitude to these 5 apps, which we use dozens (sometimes 100s) of times per day. Each shaves seconds off repetitive tasks and is well-crafted and fun to use.
@linear_app
@getcommande
@CleanShot_app
@loom
@Superhuman
Product Managers: What's in your software stack?
What do you use to organize your roadmap, track personal todos, write specs, brainstorm, communicate, etc.?
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Update:
* We now properly parse Reddit posts
* We now handle LinkedIn posts
* New heuristic to improve publish date detection
* Improved Daring Fireball cosmetics
* We now handle multipage articles from MacStories
Lots of progress in two weeks. *Lots* more to come.
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Apologies to the folks with XL Pocket/Instapaper libraries who've had slow imports over the past couple weeks. This will no longer be an issue, thanks to a big infra upgrade courtesy of
@HunterClarke
.
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Big thanks to
@david_perell
,
@_TamaraWinter
,
@kevin2kelly
,
@devonzuegel
,
@ByrneHobart
,
@nayafia
,
@AdamMGrant
,
@andy_matuschak
,
@absoluttig
,
@calvinfo
,
@s8mb
,
@TheAnnaGat
,
@craigmod
,
@eliotpeper
,
@mollyfmielke
,
@dksf
,
@zebriez
,
@dwarkesh_sp
,
@danshipper
,
@domcooke
,
@nbashaw
,…
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Tags are here! 🏷️
As your library grows, tags can be a powerful way to organize your content.
We've designed tags to be scannable, easy to manipulate, and fast.
This feature has been requested more than any other and we're delighted to finally bring it to you. :)
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Ever want to read an article on (gasp!) paper? Now it's easy to print by exporting any article to print-ready PDF.
Export to PDF from the "..." menu on the article page.
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While in beta, we're onboarding members of these wonderful communities:
✨
@interintellect_
(
@TheAnnaGat
)
📈 Progress Studies (
@rootsofprogress
)
🕰️
@longnow
🚀
@ycombinator
🖋️
@CompoundWriting
(
@dan2hunt
)
Another beta app I’m in love with -
@getmatterapp
.
It’s everything Pocket and Instapaper should have been plus a layer to see what others are reading.
Good highlighting, good Chrome extension, Readwise integration, ability to follow your favorite writers.
I’m
@austen
on there
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Works in Progress fans (better be all of you): Did you know you can save to Matter using this little button?
It's that moment you've been waiting for: a new issue of Works in Progress!
Including:
- understanding the Baby Boom could let us create another one
- how architecture is like music
- why property tax is the core of good local govt
& much more
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Breaking Points by
@AgnesCallard
“For me I think, I never truly recovered from reading Agnes' essay on breaking points” —h/t
@wanderumination
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