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A minimalist Twitter setup for tweeting without the timeline

7 tweets · November 2021 · 7 likes · 0 retweets · read on Twitter

I have a magic page twitter.com/post/status/on…, which, when using this userstyle (via a browser extension like Stylus) creates this page where I can tweet without getting distracted by the timeline or notifications. gist.github.com/malcolmocean/3…

Worth noting that this userstyle also focuses permalinks, ie removes the left nav bar & "back" button from them, so you can open up a link to a tweet without getting distracted by notifications.

In order to really not get distracted by notifications, you might also want this userscript that removes the red dot from the tab icon, and the (19+) unread count from the title.

Malcolm Ocean 🏴‍☠️ @Malcolm_Ocean ·

Problem 😡 I wanting to leave a tweet open for reference or to reply to the thread... but the (1) in the title or the red dot in the favicon makes me end up checking notifications. Solution 😎 this custom userscript I just wrote: gist.github.com/malcolmocean/9…

Also I don't log into twitter on my phone, but I have a tweetonly widget using IFTTT! So basically the same functionality there! Useful even if you do have the twitter app, so you can go straight to tweeting without needing to dodge the timeline.

Malcolm Ocean 🏴‍☠️ @Malcolm_Ocean ·

@rajlego IFTTT system is a little widget on my android, where I am not otherwise logged in (I don't have the app). My only complaints with it are I can't post images and I can't see the character count so sometimes I go over 280. Also no threads but that's fine. ifttt.com/applets/RWS7dg…

great example of Gall's Law, also! before I had this minimalist page, I would just load a random page that would 404, then hit n to open the tweet composer, and use another style to hide everything behind the compose modal window

Malcolm Ocean 🏴‍☠️ @Malcolm_Ocean ·

@rajlego Beyond that, I have a bunch of userstyles that make things more focused. eg right now in the compose window, everything else is hidden. So to tweet on desktop I go to twitter.com/NVMNVMNVMNVMNV… then hit N to open the tweet/thread composer

Malcolm Ocean 🏴‍☠️ @Malcolm_Ocean ·

@dvassallo "A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over with a working simple system." — Gall's Law

I realized I wasn't using this page enough because it was long to type. I thought of making a text-expandy thing for it but then instead... I now have a hotkey so that when I press super+t it automatically opens this page! ctrl+t for new tab super+t for new tweet