Medium launches TK, an AI-powered, minimalist note-taking, journaling, and private social networking app with daily prompts, its first major launch since 2017
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Medium betting on TK—AI-assisted notes plus small-group social—underscores that “blogging” is drifting toward private, prompt-driven group spaces. If your product still assumes public posting is the default, revisit your roadmap around intimate, AI-shaped collaboration instead of feeds.
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