What’s Tapestry?

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

You possibly can examine what individuals are posting and catch main information tales in the event you comply with the suitable accounts. However to remain within the loop, you continually swap between social media apps. This does not embrace the blogs or Tumblr feeds that you just additionally learn frequently. 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 your whole 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 vogue in a single place. I’ve discovered it makes my day extra attention-grabbing, and the concept I solely need to open up one app somewhat than 5 – 6 makes an enormous distinction.

This is extra on how Tapestry can revolutionize your day.

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Methods to get began on Tapestry

It takes just a little little bit of configurating to arrange

Downloading the app is easy, and it supplies 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, just a few YouTube accounts, and a few extra 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 totally, making it look much like an X feed. You possibly can collapse them to see solely headlines, or select the mini view, which reveals simply the submit’s timestamp and supply. I discovered the expanded view most helpful for the reason that mini possibility would not present sufficient context.

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Including new feeds

It is not the best factor to do

When you get the grasp 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 disadvantage is how one can’t seek for widespread feeds — you’ll be able to’t simply log into Instagram or X and have them seem. As an alternative, you will have to arrange pages individually or import an OPML file with an inventory of URLs.

If you wish to comply with the Yankees’ YouTube web page, it’s essential to sort youtube.com/@yankees to go on to their web page. Then, it’s important to authorize it and reserve it in your feed. This course of could be time-consuming in the event 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’ll be able to set up your feeds right into a single unified feed or separate them nonetheless you want.

The distinction between the 2 could 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 somewhat than simply consuming content material, however the actual promoting level is the power to drag from varied sources — not simply X accounts on X or Instagram accounts on Instagram.

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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’ll be able to resolve the way you need to work together with them. Tapestry defaults to opening posts in-app, so clicking a hyperlink will launch it inside the app.

If you happen to come throughout a YouTube or Bluesky submit you need to have interaction with, you’ll be able to open it in-app, however you will have to log into these accounts. If you happen to set hyperlinks to open in Safari, your machine will launch the corresponding app (if put in), making the method a lot less complicated.

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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 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 may appear to be overkill, however it’s a helpful possibility if you would like exact management over your feed.

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

• No advertisements
• Customized timelines you can alter the show of
• Muffles and Mutes
• App icons and fonts and colours that are not out there 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’ll take some getting used to and it’ll want some simpler integrations. However, this might be the best way you utilize content material apps sooner or later, particularly if you would like the power to manage lots of them at one time in a single place.