Gather

  • “mobile app” ⤴️

  • “collecting, sorting, and revisiting” ⤴️

  • “multimedia data” ⤴️

  • “offline, stores all data locally” ⤴️

  • “optionally syncs to external data sources (Are.na)” ⤴️

  • “arose from a personal need.” ⤴️

  • same

  • “the gathering I did on the internet (on my computer) was almost entirely disconnected from the gathering I did in the physical world (through my phone).” ⤴️

  • “groupings” ⤴️

  • “didn’t overlap” ⤴️

  • “meld these worlds together,” ⤴️

  • “connecting my internet discoveries with my physical collecting.” ⤴️

  • “a form that encapsulates how I gather things that attract my attention and the rituals that nourish me around the people I love.” ⤴️

  • “for those who are curious” ⤴️

  • “for those who care about how their attention is directed” ⤴️

  • “who relish making connections across different places, contexts, locations, memories.” ⤴️

  • “vignettes” ⤴️

  • “general-purpose field recorder,” ⤴️

  • “collect important fragments of the world you discover,” ⤴️

  • “arrange those fragments” ⤴️

  • “themed collections” ⤴️

  • “attune your attention” ⤴️

  • “Collecting is the modern-day version of the foraging our ancestors did.” ⤴️

  • “Collect anything you notice, anything that makes you feel.” ⤴️

  • “personal act” ⤴️

  • “being liberal with what you gather.” ⤴️

  • “Be generous to your instincts and trust them to capture what is important” ⤴️

  • “collecting should simply be a way to archive what your body already tells you is important” ⤴️

  • “motivation should come from within.” ⤴️

  • “yping your thoughts, or by selecting photos from your camera roll.” ⤴️

  • “text directly to a specific collection like you would text a specific person.” ⤴️

  • “takes inspiration from our existing habits of texting and emailing ourselves things we want to remember.” ⤴️

  • “casual archival impulse” ⤴️

  • “whatever comes to mind throughout the day.” ⤴️

  • “don’t worry about gathering too much.” ⤴️

  • “Sorting happens after you’ve collected. Whereas collecting emerges instinctually, sorting can be done intentionally at any time” ⤴️

  • “sorting interface enables you to quickly swipe through your unsorted blocks, one-at-a-time, and organize them” ⤴️

  • “connect it to any number of collections.” ⤴️

  • “easy to use while transient and on the go” ⤴️

  • “revisit them to sit with what you’ve collected” ⤴️

  • “ot intended for your traditional to-do list where items are entered once and crossed off foreve” ⤴️

  • “cultivate archives that you care abou” ⤴️

  • “tend to,” ⤴️

  • “resonance when you revisit them.” ⤴️

  • “tackle the “scrolling itch”” ⤴️

  • “rather than” ⤴️

  • “getting lost in the algorithmic bog.” ⤴️