Leaving social networks aside, our favorite applications are those that make our lives easier. They warn us where a mobile is lost, in which place we parked the car, if there is traffic on the way to destination … but there are few or none, that they send us notices of what we like or interest us. Without suggestions or advertising, only what we have asked for. And so it was until now.
The developers of the ICONFACTORY software company have launched a new app called Tapestry, a mixture between a social application and a news reader. The application feeds on feeds of all kinds: Specific user social media publications, YouTube video, new blog posts, new episode of a podcast …
We select what interests us, we tell the app and this will send us notifications every time what we have asked for is published. Not something similar, not something linked, only what we have told him. Without recommendations or algorithms, only what iconfactory calls a “personal and unified chronology” of the content that interests you.
Tapestry also has a lot of intelligent ways to filter your content. Can Choose keywords to “silence”, which will make your entry into Tapestry much smaller, or you can silence them and eliminate them from your chronology completely.
“Navigating chronology in Tapestry It is totally private -They explain on their website -. No server tracks what you are loading and no third observes while you move or look for content. Even our ads are private. ”
We can also Customize notifications so that they do not have spoilersso that only some have sound or to read them at certain times.
The problem is that, initially It is a payment applicationit is not much long term (18 euros per year), but it is not free.
It is interesting that we have direct access to the content through the message, be they videos on YouTube, a podcast, a blog or a networks. What in general cannot be done is to have access to the comments section.
The great advantage is that what will appear will be what interests us, since We have selected it with “name and surname” and there will be no suggestions. This is a very high level of customization for one Internet that is increasingly vast and makes it easier for us to lose content that really is interesting.