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Life & fun · May 14, 2020

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Tap a powerful, customizable note-taking system

Tap is a programmable, text-based service for keeping track of what you notice — at work, around the house, on a farm, wherever you happen to be paying attention.

Tap a powerful, customizable note-taking system launched on May 14, 2020 with 6 votes, #1,336 of 4,813 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 6 years on.

What it does

Tap has entered an extended experimental phase . Most of what's driving development comes from using it on a small farm — keeping track of willow plantings, counting goose eggs, and anything that comes up while we work on this piece of land. To make Tap work better for that kind of use and to figure out what it should become next, we've temporarily suspended new signups . Existing accounts keep working as they always have. If you'd like to follow along, the blog is the the place for specifics on Tap and we're covering the farm on Substack . Open Tap on the web and write a line. Or send one in through the API. Every record gets a timestamp without you having to think about it. Plain text is…from tatatap.com

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