Motleo

Motley bits, one new tab at a time. Add content packs by URL, heart the ones you love and watch the surprises pile up.

Motley bits, one new tab at a time. Motleo turns your new tab into a small daily surprise: a fact, a phrase, a word you didn't know. Every time you open a tab you get one short tidbit from the content packs you choose. WHAT YOU GET • Eleven built-in packs to start with, about 750 tidbits: Latin phrases, cognitive biases, logical fallacies, mental models, famous experiments, word origins, idioms, paradoxes, misquotes and more, each linked to Wikipedia or Wiktionary. Switch any of them off on the options page • Content packs: add any pack by its web address or from a file on your computer, or build your own. A pack is a single JSON file, so it is easy to share with friends or a team • A shuffle bag: every tidbit appears once, in random order, before any repeats. Prefer pure chance? Switch the order in the options • Optional ❤️ to mark your favorites, with a Favorites page where you pick the ones to export as a pack file to share • Soft gradient backgrounds with an optional, very faint generated pattern: contour lines, hazy ridges, halftone dots or soft shapes. Light and dark mode follow your system • Source links on tidbits, so surprising claims are easy to check BUILD YOUR OWN PACK A pack is a short JSON file: an id, a name and a list of tidbits with a title and text. Host it anywhere over https, paste the address into Motleo, and your tidbits join the mix. The full guide and a starter file are at the website. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account, no analytics, no tracking. Favorites, counts and your list of packs stay in your browser. Motleo only contacts the pack addresses you add, and only when you add or refresh a pack. Packs loaded from a file are read in your browser and never uploaded. Tidbits are shown as plain text.