Gather vs One Small Thing

Develop your curiosity and personal taste with Gather, a multimedia field recorder for cultivating your personal archive of ideas, moments, and rituals. Key Features: * Offline-Capable: Full functionality without internet connection * Privacy-Focused: No ads, no logins, no tracking and all data is stored on-device* * Quick Capture: Collect everyday inspiration and moments on-the-go as fast as texting yourself * Organize: Connect unorganized blocks later while in transit or after getting home, so you don’t have to worry about organizing when collecting. * Review: Revisit your favorite moments and curb your social media addiction while scratching your scroll itch in a TikTok-like feed Additional Benefits: * Multimedia support: collect text, images, videos, and links! Support for more types like audio on the horizon * Are.na Integration: Sync selected collections and blocks to give them an online home * Personalization: Customize app icons and configure the interface through detailed settings * Share extension: quickly save text, images, and links from other apps * Open-Source: Transparent, secure, and community-driven Gather was developed by a person (Spencer) for their own use, which means it has the best interests of the person using it in mind. No dark patterns or corporate shenanigans, ever. * this doesn’t include content that you decide to sync to external providers --- Gather is made and maintained by Spencer Chang, an indie engineer and internet artist based in San Francisco, California. You can learn more about the philosophy behind Gather in this interview with Are.na (https://www.are.na/editorial/an-interview-with-spencer-chang) Gather emerged from a personal need for a tool to facilitate my own archival practice—something that helped me collect the daily inspiration I encountered, connect them to relevant containers, and revisit ideas that important to me. More info: https://gather.directory/ Privacy Policy: https://gather.directory/privacy

It's eight in the evening, you have the next two hours free, and you cannot decide what to do with them. So you pick up your phone. Forty minutes later you put it down feeling worse than when you started. Every other app that helps you decide asks you to type the options in first. If you already knew the options, you wouldn't need the app. One Small Thing comes with 1,200+ of them. You tap one of three lines and get a single card: one specific thing you could start in the next minute, and a sentence on why that one. HOW IT WORKS Tap whichever is true right now: · I'm bored — give me something to do · Bored of the usual — give me something I haven't done · Today feels empty — help me end the day You get one card. Not a list, not a feed. If it doesn't fit, push back — lighter, don't want to leave the house, free, something completely different — and you get another one. When it fits, close the app and go do it. Tap once when you're back. That's the whole thing. LATE AT NIGHT IT STOPS SUGGESTING Past an hour you choose, it won't try to start something with you. It walks three short steps to end the day instead: look back at it, name the first thing for tomorrow, one small thing to unwind. Then it says good night. In the morning, the thing you named is waiting on the home screen, and tapping it clears it. 1,200+ THINGS TO DO From untangling the charging cables to walking to the corner shop to study a drink you've never had. Indoors and out, free and not, lazy and not. Every card says how long it takes and whether it costs anything. IT WORKS WITH THE WIFI OFF There is no server. The whole library ships inside the app. It works on a plane, in a basement, in airplane mode, on a phone with no SIM in it. NO ACCOUNT. NOTHING COLLECTED. Nothing to sign up for. What you've done and what you've saved sit in a database on this phone, and you can export the lot as JSON or wipe it, from Settings, in two taps. No analytics, no ad SDK, no tracking, and no notifications trying to drag you back in. This app has done its job at the moment you close it. THE COLOURS FOLLOW THE SKY Afternoon is pale blue, dusk is orange, late night is off-white on near-black. It uses the real sunrise and sunset where you are, so it never looks the same at two different times of day. Free with 300 things to do. A one-time purchase unlocks the whole library — 1,200+ — including everything added later. No subscription, and nothing to cancel. Made by one person. The trade for collecting nothing is that I can't see what anyone does with it — so if a suggestion is bad, email me and I'll fix that entry. That's the only way I find out.