Plinky 🔗

@plinky

An indie business run by @mergesort.me, making it incredibly easy to save links for later. Also a bit of red panda stanning. Check out !

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Plinky 🔗@plinky· Apr 22

2/ I've had the pleasure of using Plinky on my Mac for months, and I really love it. Enjoy a redesigned sidebar, keyboard shortcuts, and a better save experience everywhere you save links. And these aren't just Mac improvements, every nice touch and improvement has made it's way to the iPad too.

Save links in 1 tap, read them when you want

All your links
Available on iPhone, iPad, and Mac

Save from any app
Or browser, device, and service

Plinky 🔗@plinky· Apr 22

1/4 After months of development, meet Plinky for Mac. It's not enough to have all your links in your pocket, you need them everywhere you are. Starting today, that includes your Mac. ➡️ plinky.app/mac ⬅️

Plinky 🔗@plinky· Apr 21

Almost two weeks and three rejections later, Plinky for Mac is finally approved and coming tomorrow. 🎉

Hello Red Panda Club Inc,

The status of your app has changed to Pending Developer Release.

Plinky 🔗@plinky· Apr 15

I highly recommend everyone read this tremendous essay from @joanwestenberg.com on the case for optimism. It’s up to us to build the world we want, even when we see many reasons it might not happen — because sometimes it does.

In 1903, Simon Newcomb - a professor of mathematics at Johns Hopkins and probably the most credentialed scientist in the country
- wrote a widely-read essay arguing that powered heavier-than-air flight was a practical impossibility. And on December 17 of that same year, Wilbur and Orville Wright flew four times at Kitty Hawk. The longest flight lasted 59 seconds and covered 852 feet.
Newcomb never revised his position.
Pessimism is more accurate in the short term
- almost always, I'll give it that. Things do go wrong in roughly the ways people predict they will. But optimism is more productive over decades. Optimism is the thing that generates attempts, and without attempts nothing

Blind cheerfulness ignores evidence, crashes planes, builds the Humane Al Pin and bankrupts companies. Nobody wants that.
But the choice to look at bad data and act anyway, because sitting still is the one move that guarantees the bad outcome, is a noble one.
The most dangerous idea I keep running into is that there is nothing to be done. It's the one idea that, if enough people hold it, comes true
- and I refuse to treat that as a serious intellectual position. I refuse to let Quiet Quitting become the dominant intellectual model of our age.
I would rather be wrong about what we're capable of than right about why we shouldn't bother trying…..

Plinky 🔗@plinky· Apr 9

Well that was a much faster review time than expected. Still plenty to do to prepare for launch though, so April 22nd is still the day for Plinky 6!

Review of your Plinky: Save & Bookmark Links (iOS) submission is complete.
Congratulations!
Review of your submission has been completed. It is now eligible for distribution.

Plinky 🔗@plinky· Apr 8

It's taken a lot of work but I'm excited to announce that Plinky is coming to the Mac on April 22nd. In a world of half-hearted web apps and vibecoded slop, I doubled down on making Plinky a Mac app that feels right at home on the Mac. And I can't wait for you to try it out.

Plinky comes to Mac

All your links in your pocket, and at your desk

Launching April 22nd

Plinky 🔗@plinky· Feb 26

This is my favorite form of compliment. 😭

My mom is visiting.. she updated her laptop to 26 just to keep using Plinky.. so congrats on the “killer app” status :)

Plinky 🔗@plinky· Feb 18

The latest Plinky beta brings a bunch of improvements to the Mac and iPad. Say hello to a new sidebar design that feels right at home on macOS, along with a brand-new pinned section to help organize Folders and Tags. And of course I've added a myriad of keyboard shortcuts across both platforms.

The updated iPad design of Plinky showing off keyboard shortcuts.

Plinky 🔗@plinky· Feb 13

This a great read about the looming cultural crisis around AI, but also a meaningful anthropological lens into how SF and DC have different roots yet very alike. jasmi.news/p/ai-populism

Black text on a white background. The text reads: "I was not initially inclined to feel very bad about data centers, which have existed as long as the internet has. Much of the infrastructure of our modern world is not pretty, and that’s OK with me because we all reap the gains. But as I spent a morning driving around Loudoun County—the data center capital of the US, which houses roughly one data center in every two square miles—with photojournalist Stephen Voss, I finally got the distate. The data centers are just so close to where people live, looming over suburban backyards and sports fields and sidewalks and schools. Two years of loud construction, two decades of noise. You stand there and hear them hissing, whirring, rattling, beeping. Some have cheap American flags draped over the side, and others are painted a bland ecru, a flimsy attempt at fading into the background. In compute hubs like Loudoun County, trees have been chopped down and high-voltage transmission towers put up. Mazes of power lines hang over roads like steel cobwebs."

A screenshot of a news article with black text on a white background. The text discusses AI regulation and mentions tech billionaires, political figures, and AI-related concerns.

Plinky 🔗@plinky· Jan 28

This is exactly how some people are using Plinky! The perfect home for the Reels you want to send each other, but instead can watch together. 📺 www.instagram.com/reel/DTpInQl...

Plinky 🔗@plinky· Jan 27

Put out a new beta of Plinky for Mac yesterday (plinky.app/mac/beta if you haven't tried it yet!). This latest build adds something all Mac apps need — keyboard shortcuts! And all of those keyboard shortcuts are coming to the iPad as well, for all you magic keyboard wielders. ⌨️

An iPad displaying a file menu that shows an assortment of keyboard shortcuts.

Plinky 🔗@plinky· Jan 21

I gave Codex Plinky’s codebase and asked it to build Plinky Mini for Android to save links from my Boox Palma, and… it was working in just two prompts. So I guess that means Plinky Mini will be coming to your Android devices soon, after I make a few touch ups to make sure it feels just right.

A screenshot of Codex building an app called Plinky Mini for Android

Plinky 🔗@plinky· Jan 7

Very excited about something I've been cooking up with @johnbrayton.com and his award-winning RSS reader @unread.app. More to share soon, but here's something for those of you who enjoy a lil teaser. 👀 🌐 goldenhillsoftware.com/unread

Plinky 🔗@plinky· Jan 4

Finally printed out all my links.

A very tall stack of papers wrapped like a book

Plinky 🔗@plinky· Jan 2

The first meme I ever saw. 🥲

A cat that says “I made you a cookie but I rated it.”

Plinky 🔗@plinky· Dec 22

sarah guo
@saranormous
time to read all your bookmarks

Plinky 🔗@plinky· Nov 29

It's Black Caturday and you should spend 1 minute learning how to properly shoot photos of your cat. Source: www.threads.com/@jdthecamera...

Plinky 🔗@plinky· Nov 24

4/5 If you still want to dive deeper — I will personally teach you whatever you want to know about Plinky. Head over to plinky.app/webinar and sign up for me to onboard you onto Plinky. I'll answer any question you have, listen to all your great ideas, plus I'm a pretty fun guy to chat with.

Two iPhones side by side: One with an image of Plinky and the other with a link to the webinar

Plinky 🔗@plinky· Nov 24

3/5 I've also revamped the onboarding completely to helps beginners and experts alike. Learn about all of Plinky's features, from saving links to browser extensions to link reminders to Plinky's excellent Shortcuts support. I bet everyone will learn something new, and find some good links to save.

Three phones side by side showing off Plinky's new onboarding experience

Plinky 🔗@plinky· Nov 24

2/5 Now let's talk about what's new. First of all, we're tripling your efficiency with space for three new swipe actions. Every app lets you swipe from right to left, but swiping from the left to access folders, tags, reminders, pins and more — that's the future. (Fully customizable, of course.)

Two phones displaying Plinky's new swipe gestures

Plinky 🔗@plinky· Nov 24

1/5 Plinky 5.1 is out today, with a lot of updates. But I want to start off by saying — hi — Plinky is on sale big time right now! You can get 50% off of 1 year of Plinky Pro, on top of already big price drops in 100+ countries. Definitely take advantage of this for a limited time! 🎁 plinky.app/pro

Three stylized app icons with gift boxes in them

Plinky 🔗@plinky· Nov 15

Need something cute to show your friends or partner for #caturday? www.instagram.com/withpyaari/r...

Plinky 🔗@plinky· Nov 11

If you ask me the web should be fun. 🌐 plinky.app/browsers

Plinky 🔗@plinky· Nov 9

My face when I see how many tabs you have open.

Plinky 🔗@plinky· Nov 9

The text Plinky for Saving Your Links, in the Zohran Mamdani campaign font

Plinky 🔗@plinky· Oct 23

Also the Thai government will teach you English, train you to cook, and even offer financing for you to open a Thai restaurant abroad to help spur their national project. vinepair.com/cocktail-cha...

Calling the Global Thai initiative a success would be the understatement of the century.
In the two decades since the program launched, the number of Thai restaurants worldwide has more than tripled, jumping from roughly 5,500 in 2002 to well over 17,000 as of January 2024. In the United States, the presence of Thai restaurants has expanded by 250 percent in the same time frame, swelling from approximately 2,000 to just under 7,000. With only 300,000 Thai-Americans living in the States, the country's cuisine accounts for the highest population-to-restaurant ratio of any cultural group.

To achieve this goal, the government implemented dozens of programs across several bureaus, each of which was designed to give citizens the resources they need to operate a restaurant abroad. The Ministry of Labour's Department of Skill Development (DSD) started offering cooking classes for those looking to develop their knowledge of the cuisine and prowess in the kitchen. The courses also included lessons on how to
purchase and preserve ingredients, maintain a safe work environment, and operate a restaurant. Students were even taught basic English skills to take with them abroad.

Plinky 🔗@plinky· Oct 5

A new, faster, easier to set up and beautifully redesigned browser extension is dropping soon. 👀

A website showing a browser extension banner that says “Saving Your Link…”

Plinky 🔗@plinky· Sep 23

A live look at people who close their browser tabs.

Plinky 🔗@plinky· Sep 20

Can't argue with an all-knowing super intelligence.

In one word, what app
should people use to save
links for later?

Thought for a few seconds

Plinky

Plinky 🔗@plinky· Sep 15

3/ No screen went untouched: Whether it's the cleaned up iPad and Mac sidebar, or banners across the app, I gave every screen a makeover to make sure Plinky looks cohesive on iOS 18 and iOS 26. (And soon, macOS 26 as well. 😉)