a pinterest that supports any media; no AI, no algorithms. the connections you make are results of your own organic decisions
a digital nootropic amidst digital narcotics
It's like hey, you want to rummage through people's research piles and share your own? And I'm like hell yeah do!
It's like Pinterest, but for academics.
i've described it as Niche Pinterest
or Library Tumblr
it’s Pinterest for words and images that would be somewhat odd to have a board for
If social media is hive mind, Are.na is honey mind.
my second heart&brain
A platform that enables a flow state filled with sensational calm and intellectual stimulation, without the rush of heightened dopamine, where you can sense the little wires in your brain linking as you connect different blocks together
A corner of the internet that feels like a cozy bed with soft sheets and freshly washed linen
are.na is where I end up
are.na is how I'd want to browse the Internet forever
I used to make folders on my computer, trying to store all the references that informed my thinking, but it didn't work very well and I couldn't connect them to each other. Tumblr was the first place where I could share both texts, links and images, but it was as a feed and as a whole, not as seperate ideas that might or might not inform eachother. I loved are.na from the first time I came across it and actually used it back in the early days (in 2012 maybe?) to collaborate on group projects, sharing references with each other. Now, I use it to organise my visual references, for myself and it is extremely helpful to develop my thinking.
"truly the ant colony of my mind"
The edge of discovery and ideation, run by a gang of conceptual hoarders.
A library with my own section in online filled with things that inspire me. When I come into this place, I know I will be surrounded by whatever I love and I find/found interesting.
if you find the best stuff on the internet, it's likely that it already exists on are.na
imagine your second brain. now connect it with all other second brains. that's are.na!
An internet cafe
дохуя рефов
“a network of archives and an archive of networks”
if pinterest & tumblr had a baby and it grew up to revolutionize the internet utilizing the best features of both platforms and removing the toxic elements of each, all while remaining underground and esoteric and interesting and pretentious as hell.
"playlists, but for ideas"
- The only tool for organizing notes and bookmarks and inspiration that’s ever met my needs.
- A holdout against algorithms and manufactured outrage.
- At risk of succumbing to too much spam a-la Craigslist.
- A place where I still waste more minutes of my life everyday than I’d prefer, but after which I nonetheless don’t feel like I want to die (as opposed to Instagram.)