[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"branding":3,"analytics":7,"article-medium-launches-tk-a-note-taking-app-beyond-blogging":10,"sections":35},{"siteName":4,"siteTagline":5,"publisherName":4,"contactEmail":6},"The Revision","Tech news, decoded.","editor@therevision.news",{"gaMeasurementId":8,"adsenseClientId":9},"G-ZW2MV82GYR","ca-pub-8533917693782264",{"article":11},{"id":12,"slug":13,"title":14,"dek":15,"body_md":16,"tags_json":17,"published_at":18,"created_at":19,"updated_at":20,"status":21,"review_note":22,"review_notes":23,"image_url":22,"persona_id":22,"persona_name":22,"section":24,"tags":25,"sources":30,"feedback":34,"feedback_at":22,"cost_usd":34,"total_tokens":34},12620,"medium-launches-tk-a-note-taking-app-beyond-blogging","Medium Launches TK, a Note-Taking App Beyond Blogging","The blogging platform's first major launch since 2017 mixes journaling, notes, and a private social network aimed at getting people to write more.","Medium is launching TK, a note-taking and journaling app, and it is the first time the company has become more than a blogging platform.\n\nTK pairs private writing tools with something resembling a private social network. The pitch has two parts: get you to write more, then make it easy to share that writing with friends and fans. One shorthand for the product is Google Docs meets group chats, meets blogging.\n\nCEO Tony Stubblebine was candid about the gap since the last big release. \"I don't think we've actually had a launch of anything important since 2017,\" he said, a few days before TK went out. That makes it the company's biggest launch in almost a decade. He also described TK as part of a bigger idea about blogging and a broader thesis about the state of the internet. The details available so far do not include pricing, supported platforms, or how sharing works in practice.\n\nThe strategic shift is easier to see than the thesis. Medium's existing product starts at the moment something is ready to publish. TK moves the company upstream, to the messy drafts and private notes that come first. That space is crowded: Apple Notes, Notion, and Google Docs already hold plenty of people's writing, so the notes themselves are unlikely to be the draw. The social layer has to carry the product.\n\nThe logic is plausible. Most writing never gets published, and a small audience of friends asks less of a writer than the open web does.\n\nThe open question is whether a company built around public posts can make a private audience feel worth writing for. The name, a newsroom shorthand for \"to come\", at least suggests the story is still being written.","[\"medium\",\"note-taking\",\"blogging\",\"apps\"]","2026-11-09T15:04:45.000Z","2026-11-09T15:36:05.795Z","2026-11-09T15:36:08.283Z","published",null,[],"software",[26,27,28,29],"medium","note-taking","blogging","apps",[31],{"name":32,"url":33},"The Verge","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.theverge.com\u002Ftech\u002F1029676\u002Fmedium-tk-notes-app",0,{"sections":36},[37,42,47,52,57,62,67,72,76,81,86,91,96,101],{"name":38,"slug":39,"count":40,"latest_published_at":41},"AI","ai",7144,"2026-11-12T13:27:45.000Z",{"name":43,"slug":44,"count":45,"latest_published_at":46},"Security","security",1128,"2026-11-11T18:05:00.000Z",{"name":48,"slug":49,"count":50,"latest_published_at":51},"Deals","deals",642,"2026-11-12T14:00:00.000Z",{"name":53,"slug":54,"count":55,"latest_published_at":56},"Policy","policy",619,"2026-11-12T12:53:36.000Z",{"name":58,"slug":59,"count":60,"latest_published_at":61},"Consumer Tech","consumer-tech",364,"2026-11-12T11:12:32.000Z",{"name":63,"slug":64,"count":65,"latest_published_at":66},"Hardware","hardware",336,"2026-11-12T11:24:43.000Z",{"name":68,"slug":69,"count":70,"latest_published_at":71},"Science","science",230,"2026-11-12T10:00:00.000Z",{"name":73,"slug":24,"count":74,"latest_published_at":75},"Software",168,"2026-11-11T17:36:49.000Z",{"name":77,"slug":78,"count":79,"latest_published_at":80},"Startups","startups",159,"2026-11-11T12:30:00.000Z",{"name":82,"slug":83,"count":84,"latest_published_at":85},"Dev Tools","dev-tools",127,"2026-11-11T19:00:44.000Z",{"name":87,"slug":88,"count":89,"latest_published_at":90},"General","general",118,"2026-11-11T16:49:42.000Z",{"name":92,"slug":93,"count":94,"latest_published_at":95},"Gaming","gaming",107,"2026-11-12T10:09:03.000Z",{"name":97,"slug":98,"count":99,"latest_published_at":100},"Reviews","reviews",38,"2026-10-20T12:00:00.000Z",{"name":102,"slug":103,"count":104,"latest_published_at":105},"How-To","how-to",8,"2026-10-05T09:00:00.000Z"]