Disclosure: Medium paid me $50 to write about my experience using TK. Medium didn’t review this story before I published it, had no input on what I wrote, and didn’t ask me to be positive.

I am currently typing this into a lovely, new blank note in TK.

What is TK, you may ask? That is what I am here to tell you.

In two words, TK is: ALMOST ANYTHING.

I was invited to join TK, Medium’s new social writing platform, when I upgraded to being a Friend of Medium a few months ago.

When I joined I think there were less than a few hundred people on the whole platform. I got in early and it’s been interesting to be on this cutting room floor, watching changes happen every day to make the platform better for everyone.

I’m not going to lie: Describing TK as a whole is going to be a hard thing to do.

At first it looks like it could be one of two things: a note taking app, or a potential second brain app, but I quickly learned its main purpose was to be a place to share raw, unedited writing with people.

It’s a place to draft Medium stories before you publish them, and to get feedback before publishing.

It’s a place where you can post your “Public Journal” every day and basically write your morning pages publicly with hundreds of other people.

It’s a place to keep your stuff organized by tags instead of the endless scroll in Medium’s “drafts” area.

But there’s more!

TK automatically creates a “Daily Note” for you - and it’s exactly what it sounds like. It’s one note dedicated to each day to dump all of your things into - ideas, lists, memories, reminders, whatever - put it in the daily note, and then decide what to do with it.

That knowledge only came from reading other’s user experiences, which brings me to the “How I Use TK” Library.

On TK, a “Library” is like a Publication where people can share their related posts, and I’ve learned a lot about using’s TK inline AI assistant, how to effectively like, comment, and connect with other people, and how to share again as a person on the internet, not a persona on the internet.

By some twist of fate, I’ve found myself in conversation with Medium’s CEO, Tony Stubblebine, who told me verbatim how to connect TK with Claude so my Daily Note now automatically has sections for Notes, Journaling, Habits, Weather, Calendar, and News that populate and refresh every eight hours.

I have had a whopping FOUR READS on Medium so far this month, yet I can practically call Coach Tony my buddy.

That’s what TK is. It’s connecting with people in a new way, and at a deeper, more personal level than I have been used to in a long time.

TK can also do things that a lot of online journaling apps can do.

You can, as I said above, connect with Claude to track things like moods and habits, you can keep your writing private or share it with whoever you want, you can upload photos to your entries, and organize them by tags.

The Daily Note really replaces the need for any other online journal, which is good because I’ve been going crazy lately trying to decide which is the best “AI Journal” to use to gain deeper insights into myself.

I think the answer is TK!

It has it’s own AI assistant, and I can’t say it happily enough: it connects to Claude!

I think that if I keep drafting all of my Medium posts in here as well as keep my journal here, it will be a perfect repository for everything I create.

But to me, that’s still not the best thing about TK.

To me, the best thing about TK is the Public Journal Library.

There are hundreds of people in it, but probably not more than 30-50 of us IF THAT who are regularly active and sharing their public journals.

These are raw, unedited diary-like entries, not polished Medium posts that have beginnings, middles, and tidy ends - and this is where connections are being made.

This is where I get my daily hit of positivity from Emma Rose 🌹and the posts that make me think from AnotherMillenial, and all the things I want to know about Medium from Coach Tony as well.

I can follow along with a person’s life day by day and root for them and commiserate with them, I get to see a lot of cute cats and find out that people in all sorts of lives share some of the same things as me…

TK is a new place of connection in a time when we need real connection, online and in person, more than ever.

I highly recommend you upgrade to enjoy the experience.

Have You Heard of TK Yet? was originally published in From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.