#quiettools — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #quiettools, aggregated by home.social.
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Today on Product Hunt’s Launching Today list: Garmin CIRQA, a screenless health and fitness band. The appeal: 24/7 health monitoring, stress and advanced sleep tracking, up to 10 days of battery, and no extra notification surface.
The honest catch: connected GPS needs your phone, and ‘look later’ still means returning to the Garmin Connect app. Is that enough separation to make a wearable feel quieter?
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Two local speech projects sit at #1 and #2 on Hacker News today. That momentum matters most when it reaches knowledge work: meetings, lectures, and voice notes.
Aiko uses Whisper to transcribe on the device across macOS, iOS, and visionOS, with support for 100 languages. Your audio does not need a trip to the cloud. The honest tradeoff: it is Apple-only, and batch transcription needs a Shortcuts workaround.
Quiet tools #7.
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AI slop is turning Google search into a filtering job. Two alternatives make opposite bets.
Kagi works as a daily driver: no ads or tracking, but you pay—and its Assistant connects to 30+ LLMs.
Marginalia is an independent index of small, old, text-heavy sites. It feels more human because it is smaller: keyword-only, weak for shopping, better for accidental discovery.
Would you pay for cleaner search, or trade coverage for the weird web?