What’s Tapestry?

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

You possibly can verify what persons are posting and catch main information tales when you comply with the appropriate accounts. However to remain within the loop, you always swap between social media apps. This does not embrace the blogs or Tumblr feeds that you simply additionally learn frequently. Leaping from app to app or web site to web site 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 your entire feeds into one timeline and reveals it to you chronologically. You possibly can comply with particular person social media accounts, blogs, web sites, and extra and have it show new posts in an orderly style in a single place. I’ve discovered it makes my day extra attention-grabbing, and the concept that I solely need to open up one app fairly than 5 – 6 makes an enormous distinction.

This is extra on how Tapestry can revolutionize your day.

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get began on Tapestry

It takes just a little little bit of configurating to arrange

Downloading the app is straightforward, and it gives walkthrough prompts for including a number of the most typical account choices. The choice does really feel a bit random, with round 5 sports activities choices, 4 tech choices, a couple of 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 increase posts absolutely, 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 publish’s timestamp and supply. I discovered the expanded view most helpful for the reason that mini possibility does not present sufficient context.

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Including new feeds

It is not the best factor to do

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

If you wish to comply with the Yankees’ YouTube web page, you want to sort youtube.com/@yankees to go on to their web page. Then, it’s a must to authorize it and put it aside in your feed. This course of might be time-consuming when 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 appropriately, you may arrange your feeds right into a single unified feed or separate them nonetheless you want.

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

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Different options and settings

You possibly can interact with these apps

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

Should you come throughout a YouTube or Bluesky publish you wish to interact with, you may open it in-app, however you will have to log into these accounts. Should you set hyperlinks to open in Safari, your machine will launch the corresponding app (if put in), making the method a lot easier.

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Muffles and Mutes are premium guidelines that allow you to management your feed with out unfollowing sure accounts. Muffles collapse new posts containing a particular 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 may seem to be overkill, nevertheless it’s a helpful possibility if you’d like exact management over your feed.

Tapestry Premium is an possibility as effectively, which provides you some added bonuses:

• No adverts
• Customized timelines that you may alter the show of
• Muffles and Mutes
• App icons and fonts and colours that are not obtainable to free customers

Tapestry Premium prices $2 per thirty days, $20 per 12 months, or a one-time cost of $80 if you wish to pay up entrance and by no means once more. Tapestry has promise, however it’ll take some getting used to and it’ll want some simpler integrations. However, this might be the way in which you utilize content material apps sooner or later, particularly if you’d like the flexibility to manage lots of them at one time in a single place.