What’s Tapestry?

There’s a lot occurring day-after-day that it’s exhausting to maintain up on-line. More often than not, the best manner to do that is with social media.

You possibly can verify what individuals are posting and catch main information tales should you observe the appropriate accounts. However to remain within the loop, you continually change between social media apps. This does not embody the blogs or Tumblr feeds that you just additionally learn regularly. Leaping from app to app or website to website takes time, and let’s be actual — nobody can sustain with all of it.

That is the place Tapestry is available in. This new app combines all your feeds into one timeline and reveals it to you chronologically. You possibly can observe particular person social media accounts, blogs, web sites, and extra and have it show new posts in an orderly vogue in a single place. I’ve discovered it makes my day extra attention-grabbing, and the concept that I solely should open up one app quite than 5 – 6 makes an enormous distinction.

This is extra on how Tapestry can revolutionize your day.

Associated

You can get ad-free Tumblr now, but you have to pay up

Tumblr is permitting its customers to decide out of advertisements on the desktop and in its cell apps.

How one can get began on Tapestry

It takes slightly little bit of configurating to arrange

Downloading the app is straightforward, and it offers walkthrough prompts for including a number of the commonest account choices. The choice does really feel a bit random, with round 5 sports activities choices, 4 tech choices, just a few YouTube accounts, and a few further blogs. I selected those related to my pursuits and added them to see how the interface labored.

There are a number of methods to view your feed. You possibly can develop posts totally, making it look just like an X feed. You possibly can collapse them to see solely headlines, or select the mini view, which reveals simply the put up’s timestamp and supply. I discovered the expanded view most helpful for the reason that mini choice would not present sufficient context.

Associated

How I use my iPhone’s Focus modes to stop doomscrolling social media

You possibly can restrict your publicity to apps you possibly can’t cease scrolling.

Including new feeds

It is not the best factor to do

When you get the cling of it, you can begin including new feeds. Simply faucet the Settings button within the backside proper nook, and Add Feed will probably be your first choice. One irritating downside is how one can’t seek for frequent feeds — you possibly can’t simply log into Instagram or X and have them seem. As a substitute, you may must arrange pages individually or import an OPML file with an inventory of URLs.

If you wish to observe the Yankees’ YouTube web page, you must sort youtube.com/@yankees to go on to their web page. Then, you must authorize it and put it aside in your feed. This course of will be time-consuming should you’re including a number of accounts.

You possibly can add connectors to construct feeds utilizing sources like RSS feeds, YouTube channels, JSON feeds, and choose social media platforms like Mastodon and Bluesky. If arrange accurately, you possibly can set up your feeds right into a single unified feed or separate them nonetheless you want.

The distinction between the 2 will be complicated, however each allow you to create a number of feeds. You possibly can toggle between totally different feeds to group sure themes collectively, like sports activities, information, or tech. This provides the additional step of making a feed quite than simply consuming content material, however the actual promoting level is the power to tug from varied sources — not simply X accounts on X or Instagram accounts on Instagram.

Associated

Threads copies Bluesky feature as both look to replace X

Threads is testing a brand new customs feed characteristic which lets consumer curate the content material they see.

Different options and settings

You possibly can have interaction with these apps

There are a lot of methods to customise Tapestry, not simply by selecting what to curate in your feeds — as soon as your feeds are arrange, you possibly can determine the way you need to work together with them. Tapestry defaults to opening posts in-app, so clicking a hyperlink will launch it throughout the app.

In the event you come throughout a YouTube or Bluesky put up you need to have interaction with, you possibly can open it in-app, however you may must log into these accounts. In the event you set hyperlinks to open in Safari, your system will launch the corresponding app (if put in), making the method a lot easier.

Associated

Instagram is rolling out AI clones to strip even more humanity from social media

No, that superstar in all probability did not truly speak to you.

Muffles and Mutes are premium guidelines that allow you to management your feed with out unfollowing sure accounts. Muffles collapse new posts containing a selected key phrase or matter, whereas Mutes take away them fully. You possibly can set guidelines to filter posts primarily based on key phrases or particular accounts. This would possibly seem to be overkill, nevertheless it’s a helpful choice if you would like exact management over your feed.

Tapestry Premium is an choice as nicely, which supplies you some added bonuses:

• No advertisements
• Customized timelines that you may modify the show of
• Muffles and Mutes
• App icons and fonts and colours that are not accessible to free customers

Tapestry Premium prices $2 per 30 days, $20 per yr, or a one-time fee of $80 if you wish to pay up entrance and by no means once more. Tapestry has promise, however it’s going to take some getting used to and it’ll want some simpler integrations. However, this may very well be the way in which you utilize content material apps sooner or later, particularly if you would like the power to regulate a lot of them at one time in a single place.