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I've been using the app for a few months to gatekeep Twitter and Instagram, and my only real issue is that sometimes when those apps are linked to from other places, I just want to be able to quickly see it and then stop my doomscrolling. e.g. if my friend sends me a tweet, I want to be able to click the link, read the tweet, and then be immediately locked out of the app. With the current system, I click the link, have to do the whole 10s breathing exercise + quote, then read the tweet, and I still have a bit of time to mess around in the app before I'm locked out. So I actually end up spending more time distracted in those situations than I otherwise would.


love this callout, this is definitely on our roadmap. we refer to it internally as "one-tweet." basically - we'd love to be able to either

1. render that single tweet on the shield so you don't even have to enter the app to see it

or

2. let you passively stack up all the links you get sent socially, like a reading list, so you can work through them all at once.

will keep you posted on which way we go but definitely going to address this because it's a pain-point of mine as well.


I emphatically do not want another to-do list from option 2. I would suggest a toggle to disable it if you end up implementing this way.

> “one-tweet”

I want to “peek” at this tweet but I do not want to use Twitter.


Nice, glad to hear you're working on it. I think for the specific use-case I mentioned something like solution 1 would be better, since some of these things I want to reply to immediately so I need to consume immediately.


ha, that's the first time I ever heard that term "doomscrolling", definitely feels that way in many places. Makes me think of what the opposite would look like. Something in the direction of https://www.dictionary.com/e/pop-culture/glow-up/ but for websites.




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