Hello,

This yet-unnamed and unfishished web app is for archiving and sharing creative works in progress. It helps you get artifacts out of the screenshots folder / camera roll / etc., and into something comprehensible, searchable, shareable.

The implicit assumption

The implicit assumption is that this is actually a good thing to do. Here’s why:

• You have this place with explorations, early versions, alternate variations, seemingly dead ends, unexplored ideas, things you want to resume, useful bits and bobs, finished or unfinished work
• You can share this ongoing archive with people who want to get caught up or follow along.
• You can refer to it when you need to sum up a project, e.g. when you make a web page, or case study, or presentation.
• The act of recording, and the reflection/introspection that happens along with it, helps you make better work.

But what is this really?

At its core, it’s a blog and a way to follow other blogs. Blogs are great. A handful of things have been added to this ancient internet form to make for better archives:

• The tag system has parent/child relationships
  • You don’t have to manually add every relevant tag to a post
  • When looking at a tag’s posts, you can also see posts that are “implicitly tagged”, i.e. tagged with a child/descendant of that tag.
• You get to keep tabs on people or their tags to see their projects unfold. People can keep tabs on your projects too.
• It has more view types
• There are activity graphs so you can see the natural ebbs, flows, and patterns of your creative work

Hotkeys

1 Things

2 Tags

3 Timeline

4 Search

5 Profile

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