If you're looking for a place to store your ideas, inspiration and files, this could be
the one.
It lets you capture anything online in a second and uses AI to organise them all in one place,
including things you have in your Dropbox, GoogleDrive, Notion and more.
It's called Fabric.
Let's see what it can do!
I'm a digital hoarder.
I save everything that I want to reference later or that I think is interesting.
For that, I've been mostly using this app called Raindrop.
It's probably one of the most popular apps for storing links and pretty much anything
online.
But lately, I've been testing Fabric since I found it a week ago.
Since it's a young product, it's a little rough around the edges.
But I do like where it's going.
If you've been watching my videos, you might know mymind, which is another favourite app
of mine that I use sometimes.
Fabric kind of sit somewhere between mymind and Raindrop.
Like mymind, it uses AI to self-organise what you gathered.
But like Raindrop, it also lets you share your items and lists with others.
And that's the major reason why it caught my eyes in the first place.
It took the best of both products and made it into a new app.
There are a few things I really like about Fabric.
One is the way it captures anything that you want to save online quickly, like crazy quick.
Say, you want to save a passage on an article, you can hold cmd option or ctrl alt on windows,
then hover over the part you want to save.
It snaps right to it so you just have to click and it's done.
Of course you can also highlight a specific word or sentence and save it from the right
click menu.
But this works on images too.
Whenever you see a cool design or some photos you like, you can save it the same way.
It's so fast and I haven't seen this in any other apps.
Personally, I like collecting great thumbnails on Youtube so I can study them.
Fabric makes it super easy to do that.
I can just hover over the thumbnail I like and just click on it.
And it's already saved to the app.
Previously, I had to take a screenshot and crop it out and then upload it to Raindrop
or mymind which took longer than I liked.
So this is a huge time saver for me.
Anyway, if you want to save a whole webpage, you just have to hit option D or alt D on
Windows.
And it will save the link in Fabric.
I guess this is something that can be improved in the future.
In Raindrop or mymind, you can read inside the webpage directly on the app.
They have something like Reader mode where it strips off all the ads and other stuff
that you don't need.
But Fabric doesn't have that yet.
So if you want to read a webpage, you have to jump to the URL to do that.
Oh and of course you could create a note as well by hitting option N on your keyboard.
If you have its desktop app, it works anywhere on your computer even outside of the browser.
So whenever you got a new idea or a thought, you can just hit that key and save it in Fabric.
Surprisingly not many apps have this quick capture.
Raindrop and mymind don't.
You would have to open the app first and then create a new note which takes a bit of time.
So this is very convenient.
Speaking of which, another feature Raindrop and mymind don't have is the ability to search
what you saved from anywhere on your computer.
It's kind of like Spotlight on Mac.
By pressing cmd option F, or Ctrl alt F on Windows, you can search your saved ideas and
items.
Then press space to open and view them.
Having such a quick access to your digital library is so useful.
Oh by the way, this is where AI shines.
Fabric uses machine learning to analyse the texts and images you saved and tag them automatically.
--- Yes, just like in mymind.
But unfortunately, you cannot see what tags and labels are applied to your items, so I'm
not sure how well it is working.
But anyway, Fabric has semantic search, meaning you can search your saved items by keywords
but they don't have to match exactly.
So even if you forget the exact word, you can still find it.
To be honest, this might be my most favourite thing about this app.
The ability to easily find the items I'm looking for even if you forget what it's called or
what it looked like is just so cool.
I love it.
When it comes to images though, I'm not sure if it's as good as mymind where it can even
recognise the colours and objects inside image.
And you can search them by those.
I haven't tested much, but so far it looks alright and it does seem to recognise the
colours as well as objects too.
Anyway, let's now actually see inside the app.
Here you can see all the things you saved.
At the top, you have spaces which are like collections or folders.
Then you have the unsorted items, meaning the items that haven't been added to any space
yet.
Spaces, I think are obvious, but they are useful when you want to group items together
depending on the purpose.
Like, you can create a space for each project you're working on, or for each topic you're
learning about.
Then you can add items to each space.
For example, I have a space for thumbnails which is a collection of my favourite thumbnails.
Also another one for new apps and tools I found.
You can use grid, list or kanban view which is my favourite.
These are useful but I don't like that you cannot add an item to multiple spaces.
An item can exist in only one space.
But things are not always like that.
Sometimes, an article or a video might be related to multiple topics or projects.
So not being able to add it to different spaces is a bit annoying.
Also moving stuff to a space is a pain.
It takes lots of clicks and moving the cursor.
Maybe I'm lazy but this could be a little better.
But there are still a few more things I like.
Collaboration is a big part of Fabric.
This is the huge differentiation from mymind, which is specifically designed for a single
person.
In Fabric, you can add other people as collaborators.
But I haven't used it with other people yet, so I cannot really tell if this is good, but
it looks pretty cool on their website.
The fact that you can leave a comment on anything you saved like on Google Docs is awesome.
Finally, something I like, or more like something I'm looking forward to trying is Fabric's
integration with many apps.
I haven't got access to this feature yet, but it sounds super useful that you can connect
Fabric to various apps like Dropbox and Notion and make everything in there searchable.
This is great because these apps are so ingrained in everybody's life and workflow.
There are some things that are still lacking in Fabric, but it definitely looks promising.
It's available on Mac, Windows, Web and iOS, but apparently Android version is coming soon,
so I'm really looking forward to it.
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