My name is Philipp and you are reading Creativerly, the internet corner where I unpack my musings, curate and write about noteworthy apps and software, and explore the latest trends in design and tech.
Hey and welcome to Creativerly 355 👋
Do you remember the super niche macOS app which I soft-launched as a TestFlight beta one month ago? Well, I am currently writing an update-post on why it is already dead, kind of. To give you some more context: I build ShareBridgely in order to get access to all macOS share extensions via the native share sheet, within Vivaldi, so I can share links to articles with Reeder, which I use to read articles and blog posts. I posted …
My name is Philipp and you are reading Creativerly, the internet corner where I unpack my musings, curate and write about noteworthy apps and software, and explore the latest trends in design and tech.
Hey and welcome to Creativerly 355 👋
Do you remember the super niche macOS app which I soft-launched as a TestFlight beta one month ago? Well, I am currently writing an update-post on why it is already dead, kind of. To give you some more context: I build ShareBridgely in order to get access to all macOS share extensions via the native share sheet, within Vivaldi, so I can share links to articles with Reeder, which I use to read articles and blog posts. I posted about ShareBridgely on Mastodon and Bluesky, and apparently, the Vivaldi staff saw my post, and my little macOS app I built in order to support my workflow. In a recent Snapshot build of Vivaldi, they have added exactly what I am asking for: a share icon next to the address bar in order to trigger the native macOS share sheet.
So, my very first app got "sherlocked" just after a single month of existence.
Jokes aside, I am super happy that Vivaldi is listening to their users, and work on those small but impactful improvements. While I personally have no longer a use-case for ShareBridgely, I will keep its TestFlight open, since while Vivaldi is shipping the share button, there are other Chromium-based browsers which do not offer that functionality, and in that case, ShareBridgely can still provide a helping hand.
Additionally, there are also potential opportunities to repurpose the app a bit, and maybe serve some additional use-cases. I might look into that too. And I am also planning to share more about my journey of building ShareBridgely (as well as other small apps I have in the pipeline) in my personal newsletter Datest, which I am kickstarting starting January 2026.
Speaking of 2026, I am also in the process of writing Creativerly’s Favorites 2025 edition, a tradition I started back 2021 where I gather the apps that stood out to me throughout the past twelve months in a single post. You can check out the 2024 post here. And now, enjoy this week’s newsletter.
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Fresh Updates & News
Capacities introduces Task Management →
With its newest update, Capacities surprised its users by introducing contextualized task management. This gives users the possibility to create a task from anywhere, find it exactly where they need it, and use built-in views to execute on what matters. There is no initial setup needed. Simply create your tasks inside your notes, through the command palette, the mobile app, the sidebar, or even via Raycast. When creating a new task, you can set key details like where the task belongs, what priority it has, and when you intend to do it.
Once done, Capacities will organize the tasks for you, so you can always find them where you need it. When you create a task in a note, a dedicated task tab collects them for you. With that tab, several views come out of the box. You can even see your tasks in the calendar, as Capacities’ central calendar is a core part of the app.
To find out more about the task management feature and what is ahead on the roadmap, make sure to check out the linked post.
Figma adds more Photoshop-like AI tools for image editing →
Figma is launching three new AI-powered tools which are available in Figma Design and Figma Draw, and which can be used to quickly remove objects from an image, isolate objects, and extend images beyond their previous dimensions.
Mental Wealth
❯ Why RSS matters – “Yesterday morning, I woke up and checked my news app while still in bed. The headlines from ProPublica, The New York Times, and The Guardian loaded instantly: a curated stream of stories updated overnight. I scrolled through, tapped on a few pieces, then switched over to my podcast app to queue up something for my morning gym session. I queued up three new episodes: one from Search Engine, the first episode of the new ProPublica Narrated podcast, and an episode of Revolution.Social.”
❯ Gratitude knows that there is always a gift – “Whatever it is, let me start it with gratitude. Gratitude is fertile ground. Put in the seeds of your dreams and desires. Keep the ground watered and pull the weeds. Soon the seeds will grow.”
❯ What’s worth saying right now? – “Lately I’ve been wanting to write a newsletter and realizing that, for the most part, I don’t feel like I have much to say. ”
❯ Something from nothing – “I am not a talented person, I’ve never been called “gifted” or anything like that. Anything I can do, anything I achieved took a lot of work and stubbornness to achieve. Don’t get me wrong. I am not saying that I’m “selfmade” and that my position in society, my access to resources, etc. had nothing to do with it – quite the opposite. As a white heterosexual cis-man in Germany I have started live on easy mode. But I do not come from a wealthy background or one with large networks and access to power. I am not associated to any organization that gives me “respectability” or “relevance”. Just a dude with a website who sometimes writes a few things that luckily people read and that got me some opportunities.”
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Appendix
❯ ICYMI
The corporate web is doomed, but the indieweb is thriving. The issue is though, the content which matters most gets buried in an ever-growing pool of AI slop. Traditional search engines like Google put AI-generated summaries and content, and ads first, authentic content gets pushed further down, hardly ever seen by potential visitors. Thankfully, there are already a bunch of alternative search engines, especially built to search through the indieweb, and surface personal websites, blogs, projects, and human writing. In my newest post Searching the indieweb: How to find real people, real projects, real writing in a sea of AI slop I gathered alternative search engines to browse through the indieweb.
❯ Quick Bits
- Microsoft invests tens of billions for AI infrastructure in India and Canada (Rani Molla / Sherwood)
- “Everyone is so panicked”: Entry-level tech workers describe the AI-fueled jobpocalypse (Yashraj Sharma / Rest of World)
- The problem with Palantir’s new neurodivergent fellowship (Julia Métraux / Mother Jones)
- Trump’s Executive Order Banning Wind Ruled Illegal (Alexander C. Kaufman / Heatmap News)
- OpenAI Should Stop Naming Its Creations After Products That Already Exist (Reece Rogers / WIRED)
- Paramount tries to swipe Warner Bros. from Netflix with a hostile takeover (Scharon Harding / Ars Technica)
- Supreme Court appears likely to approve Trump’s firing of FTC Democrat (Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica)
- Meta will let Facebook and Instagram users in the EU share less data (Karissa Bell / Engadged)
- Figma launches new AI-powered object removal and image extension (Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch)
- Google’s AI training tactics land it in another EU antitrust fight (Brand Vigliarolo / The Register)
- Impeachment articles filed against RFK Jr., claiming abuse of power (Beth Mole / Ars Technica)
- Oracle shares slide as earnings fail to ease AI bubble fears (Lily Jamali / BBC)
- We mapped the world’s hottest data centers (Hazel Gandhi, Rina Chandran / Rest of World)
- Google is testing AI-powered article overviews on select publications’ Google News pages (Aisha Malik / TechCrunch)
- Under Trump, the National Renewable Energy Lab is losing ‘renewable’ from its name (Sophie Hurwitz / Grist)
- State AI regulation is in the crosshairs of Trump executive order (Khari Johnson / The Markup)
- Donald Trump reminds the entire world he has no idea what 6G means (Sean Hollister / The Verge)
- Apple, Google forced to issue emergency 0-day patches (Carly Page / The Register)
- Microsoft buys 3.6M metric tons of carbon removal from bioenergy plant (Tim De Chant / TechCrunch)
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