Link Dump

A Decaying Inspiration Canvas

More documentation coming soon - there check it out live at this site

Below is a screenshot of the most current interface (some gifs below have the outdated buttons, feel free to play with the live site)

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Note: because I am using an external package to create a zoomable canvas, there is a bug I'm still working through regarding the edit and select interactions for specific cards where the width resizes.

About the Project

Link Dump is an ephemeral canvas I created over the course of weekends and nights between March and April. I implemented abilities for users to paste links, files and import Are.na channels in which they, along with the canvas, would age with time.

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At the end of the time, the user would be given the choice to export it as a CSV to save it locally or save anew. Along with locally storing pasted files in the browser, I implemented a collaborative and cross-device board mode with Firebase with a shareable link.

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Although I used Claude and Cursor to help me implement features, I designed the visual, brand, and interaction myself utilizing Figma and Framer.

Conceptual Underpinnings

For more background on the inspiration and motivation behind this project: I saw principles in the cycles of creation and decay shared across both natural cycles and creative cycles, and saw an opportunity to join the two. As a serial digital hoarder, I save so much - screenshots in-between photos, thousand item are.na channels, a notes app of one-liners: I'm holding onto so much it falls through my hands. We collect as a form of noticing and remembering- perhaps it colors a perspective or recalls a feeling buried inside us. We collect with the intent of synthesizing and creating- an ever running to do list. But if we don't act, creativity will linger at the door and disappear.