Connect your knowledge with Trickle.app
TL;DR
I’m working on Trickle.app, a tool for creators and curators to save and connect knowledge from the web to accumulate insights instead of losing them.
It was shaped by my involvement in the Ness Labs community. A tool for thought to curate, connect, synthesize and share to build an augmented memory over time.
In contrast to note-taking tools such as Obsidian and Roam the focus is less on text. It‘s for visual thinkers creating a personal knowledge graph.
Next Thursday, Mar 10th, I’d love to present it to you - the Ness Labs community 😅
Dear friends and fellow members,
It’s been months since my last post here on Ness. I missed it dearly (remember that? good times! 🥳). I missed you and the insightful conversations about tools for thought and mindful productivity. I missed the generosity, kindness, and thoughtfulness of this tribe.
I can‘t say why I stopped posting at all. I have not even logged in very much in the last 6 months. In hindsight I may have felt a calling to leave the tribe, go out into the jungle, in order to chase a treasure and bring it back. A kind of “rite of passage” or “treasure hunt”?!
I was building a tool for thought to solve my problem:
Nothing is more valuable than knowledge.
And knowledge is abundant online.
But it’s just too much to deal with it. It requires too much time, attention, effort, and memory!
So we're constantly losing insights, missing out on opportunities, forgetting what we once knew and feel overwhelmed.
When I joined Ness Labs I was already working on Trickle.app as a micro-learning platform with elements of bookmarking, connecting, spaced repetition, etc. But during the time I was here in the community, it evolved into something more specific.
A tool to connect your knowledge. To accumulate insights instead of losing them.
“What? Another tool for thought?!” you might ask. Yes! Another tool for thought, like another tool in your kitchen. Another tool to consider and see if it fits your style and skills. Not THE tool but A tool for thought.
It’s NOT another note-taking tool. (As I think we have great options out there).
It’s a tool to curate content from the web that YOU found valuable: articles, videos, podcasts, tweets, posts, etc., and turn them into digital entities. Not as a link or embed on a page but as a digital item that can be saved, connected, and (optionally) shared.
Think of:
Dropbox for online content
Pinterest for knowledge
If Obsidian is Linux, Trickle could be MacOS.
Your photo library for online content
(Please help me to find a better analogy 🙏).
Trickle is a single place that can link all those places you love so much: Not only YouTube but also Vimeo, not only Substack but also Ghost, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, any website, any platform, any expert.
With a single click, I can hold on to things that I don’t want to forget.
It constantly surfaces old items, connected to new items I add. Helping me access those parts of the brain, that I forgot about.
And while using it in the past couple of months it feels more and more like an augmented memory.
I could go on but this text is already far too long.
Hopefully, you feel that I don’t want to convince you of anything but rather present what I have and ask for your advice.
So if you can, please join me for a Salon to connect your knowledge. Introducing Trickle.app 🤗
Hope to see you there and connect 😉
Achim 🙋🏻♂️