EasyFinder works like a bookmarking feature for your files and folders. You just drag frequently used items into the menu bar popup and they become easily and quickly accessible from anywhere.

Keep this website handy if you use a lot of special characters: you can search across all glyphs, emojis, and symbols to then easily copy them to your clipboard through a simple click.

I came across Nobias through a classified in last week’s Dense Discovery and I thought it’s worth featuring here again: this browser plugin indicates how far left or right leaning media outlets are before you click on a news link. It also keeps track of how left or right-biased your media diet is overall.

This little tool emails you daily updates on any RSS feeds you add to it, allowing you to create email notifier for blogs, profiles, and anything with a feed.

Calendar Tape Set →

DIY wall calendar

“Make your own calendar, on any wall, with this set of masking tapes. A genius idea consisting of months, days, date & then a reel for notes as well. Simply align them as you wish and stick to the wall. Easily peeled off once you are done.”

Ora Major →

Star constellation watch

Bringing the joy of stargazing down to earth, Alessio Romano created this cosmic timepiece with a design inspired by ancient constellation charts. As time passes, the red hour and white minute hands intersect across a dial as dark as the night sky, recalling the captivating star charts that connect distant stars. See it animated here.

Marketer and writer Gianfranco Chicco left his job to take some time off for feeding his ‘Serendipity Engine’: “The Serendipity Engine works just like an internal combustion engine and, like with a high performance muscle car, you need to feed it with the right kind of propellant. In this analogy, the fuel is made of different activities, skills, and conversations.” Further thoughts on serendipity vs. algorithmy.

While you may call it mere virtue signalling so far, here are some promising signs of urgently necessary system change: “In 2018, Scotland, Iceland and New Zealand established the network of Wellbeing Economy Governments to challenge the acceptance of GDP as the ultimate measure of a country’s success. In this visionary talk, First Minister of Scotland Nicola Sturgeon explains the far-reaching implications of a ‘well-being economy’.”

I’m quite fascinated by how the Superhuman controversy is a great case study for so many far-reaching tech ethics questions: “The real value of read statuses may just be a feeling: being privy to other people’s data, consensually or otherwise, can create a sense of power or control. There’s a certain satisfaction to surveillance. Data isn’t necessarily knowledge, but it can feel like it.”