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Medium is launching a new note-taking app called TK

The company is launching a new app, called TK, that combines note taking and journaling with something resembling a private social network.

✦ Extractive summary — built from the sources' own reporting•From 1 source•1 min read•Updated November 9, 2026, 3:04 PM UTC
Key points
  • The app is meant to get you writing more, and help you share that writing with friends and fans.
  • And it's part of a much bigger idea about blogging, and a much broader thesis about the state of the internet.
  • Think of TK as Google Docs meets group chats, meets blogging.

"I don't think we've actually had a launch of anything important since 2017," Medium CEO Tony Stubblebine tells me over Zoom, a few days ahead of the company's biggest launch in apparently almost a decade.

| Image: David Pierce / The Verge For the first time ever, Medium is becoming more than just a blogging platform.

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