{
 "docs": [
  {
   "slug": "help",
   "title": "Help",
   "markdown": "# Help\n\n## Adding your tools\n\nType a tool's name in the box on [add](/add) or on your own page. Pick it from the list and it's on your page, started this month. A line then offers three optional extras:\n\n- **Variant**: your model, version or setup, like \"M3, 24 GB, 1 TB\" or \"Tahoe\". The choices are what other people wrote.\n- **Since**: the month (2019-03) or just the year (2019) you started. It can be long before this site existed.\n- **Note**: up to 280 characters about how you use it. You can edit it while you use the tool.\n\nTyping a model after the name splits it off: \"iPad mini 6\" is the iPad mini, variant \"6\".\n\nIf a tool is missing, add it: say what kind of tool it is (an editor, a laptop, a chair) and, for an extension or an accessory, what it's for.\n\n## Switching and stopping\n\nAdding a tool of a kind you already use asks whether it replaces the old one. \"I stopped using this\" on a tool's page ends it; you get one last edit of your note first. Your page keeps the history: `editor: vim 2008-03 → neovim 2015-06 → helix 2023-01`.\n\n## Kinds, groups and \"for\"\n\nEvery tool has a kind (browser, editor, laptop), and every kind sits in a group (Software, AI, Services, Hardware, Desk, Carry, Home \u0026 kitchen, Paper \u0026 art, Life). \"For\" says where a tool runs or what it fits: macOS, the terminal, Firefox, an iPhone.\n\nA kind's page filters by \"for\" and by other facts: [/editor/for/terminal](/editor/for/terminal) lists editors that run in a terminal.\n\nIn the add box, `editor for:terminal` does the same.\n\n## Numbers\n\n- **Users**: people using the tool now.\n- **Market share**: the share of a kind's users who use the tool. It shows once a kind has 100 users, and a kind's shares can add up to more than 100%, because people use several tools at once.\n- **Trending**: most users gained in the last 7 days.\n\nThere are no ratings: how many people use a tool is the rating.\n\n## Following\n\nFollow people from their page. [Following](/feed) shows what they start and stop using, live.\n\n## Private\n\nThe switch at the foot of your page hides it: others see only your username and \"private\". Your tools still count in the numbers, but you're never named.\n\n## JSON and feeds\n\nEvery public page has a JSON twin at its address plus `.json`, like [/firefox.json](/firefox.json). Your page's twin works like a feed of your tools, history and notes, for your own site to pull.\n\n## Invites\n\nwhat.tools is invite-only for now. Each person can make 3 invite links on [invites](/invites).\n"
  },
  {
   "slug": "about",
   "title": "About",
   "markdown": "# About\n\nwhat.tools asks one question: what tools do you use?\n\nPeople list the software, hardware, services and AI they use, with how long they've used them, what they switched from, and a note. Tools rank by how many people use them. There are no ratings, no ads and no images: just dense pages of what people actually use.\n\nIt started from /uses pages, the pages many people keep on their own websites to list their setup. A page here is meant to be one worth linking from yours.\n\nMakers are ordinary users: a tool's page links to the account of who makes it.\n"
  },
  {
   "slug": "privacy",
   "title": "Privacy",
   "markdown": "# Privacy\n\n## What we keep\n\n- **Your email**, only to send you login codes and notices. It's never shown on any page, in any feed or in our logs.\n- **Your username** and everything you put on your page: tools, variants, months, notes, who you follow. These are public unless you turn on private.\n- **A session cookie** that keeps you logged in for 30 days. Besides it, only short-lived cookies carry an invite or a message from one page to the next. No tracking, no ads.\n\n## Private pages\n\nWith private on, others see only your username and \"private\". Your tools still count in the numbers, but you're never named in lists, activity or followers.\n\n## Mail\n\nLogin mail goes through Postmark, which sees your address and the mail.\n\n## Logs\n\nThe server logs one line per request: method, address, status and time. The web server in front of it also logs your browser's name and your IP address with its last part removed, and keeps them 90 days. Never emails, codes or tokens.\n\n## Deleting\n\n\"Delete account\" at the foot of your page deletes your account, uses, notes, follows and activity, after a code sent to your email. Tools you added stay, credited to nobody.\n"
  },
  {
   "slug": "changelog",
   "title": "Changelog",
   "markdown": "# Changelog\n\n- 2026-10-12: First version: email login with invites, tools with kinds, \"for\" and variants, user pages with history, notes, following, activity, kind pages with filters, JSON twins and llms.txt, the admin site, and seed data from 22 /uses pages.\n"
  }
 ]
}