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New Linktree Features

Is your Linktree in need of a trim?

The startup recently released a “Featured” layout to help your links stand out with a thumbnail or content preview from YouTube, TikTok, Spotify and Instagram; plus a relevant CTA.

Other updates include the ability to fetch up to 6 of your latest IG posts and Reels, more prominent profile pictures in your page’s color scheme, and text links.

Crystal

AI might be able to help you better prepare for human interaction.

Crystal quantifies human personalities into rich data that can be used to understand yourself, your colleagues, your clients, and your customers.

From communication preferences and motivations to decision-making and learning styles, Crystal gives you clear instructions driven by predictive analysis and personality assessment.

Spellbound

Increase engagement and conversions by embedding interactive widgets in your emails.

Users can play games, respond to quizzes, leave reviews, cast votes, answer surveys, rate items, and more directly from the inbox—so you can reduce churn and track in-email engagement rates instead of link clicks.

Spellbound uses a no-code designer tool and plays nice with your vendors and ESP. Magic.

Numbr

Some of us are still furiously tapping away on a calculator (app) with a pencil between our teeth.

And some of us use Numbr, which is a smart calculator combined with a notepad that understands a ton of intuitive expressions. It can even convert currencies.

Activepieces

Activepieces is a no-code, self-hosted, open source Zapier alternative for automating your internal marketing, sales, and operations. A clean UI, AI integrations, a growing library of apps, and a responsive team and active community mean that if it doesn’t already have what you need, you can request it and contribute to development.

Accessibility Tip for LinkedIn Polls

Key insight: Your poll data isn’t accurate if the poll UX is not accessible.

What happened: Carney tested a poll using copy within the character limits for poll choices, but found that users with larger text enabled for accessibility were served truncated copy in the LinkedIn mobile app.

What it means: Even if you respect the character limits, users may see only the first part of each answer. So, how do we ensure polls are accessible for all users?

Head to over to our Creative Director’s recap on LinkedIn for the actionable insight.

Aboard

Aboard turns your browser tabs, pics, docs, and more into organized boards of “cards” that you can visit and collect with intention. The opportunities for work and personal flow are endless — leads, books to read, shows to watch, apartments to tour, itineraries, competitive research, directories, recruiting — you name it. Plus, when you add the browser extension, you can add a card anywhere with one click.

Multi-Edit in Figma

Figma fans, rejoice. Mutli-edit is finally here.

This long-awaited feature lets you select and edit multiple objects across frames and component sets at once. Find and select matching layers, resize and align them to their frames, batch edit text boxes, make changes to all variants at once, and more.

Test it out:

⌘ Command + ⌥ Option + A to select all matching objects.
Shift drag to select specific matching objects
Select multiple text objects and hit enter to multi-edit text.
Select a component set and hit Q to enter multi-edit mode for variants.

Magic ToDo

You know what sucks? When you have an item on your to-do list that seems simple enough—create a social strategy, for example—but in practice, it represents a dozen other preliminary tasks and days of work before you can cross it off.

Magic ToDo automatically breaks down your items into steps based on the granularity (or “spiciness level”) you require. Top level tasks are assigned a category and emoji, which you can filter. Edit, remove, or add subtasks. Magic ToDo can even estimate time commitments for you.

Thanks to Chelsea from The Daily Carnage Facebook group for recommending this one.