Tellect - Welcome

Welcome to tellect.in.

Although we hope that tellect.in works intuitively, this is a brief tour to explain stuff. You can revisit this tutorial again from your settings.

There are three ways to communicate on tellect.in:

Mandli

Large groups, any member can post

Circles

Your personal pages, only you can post

Chat

Person to person or group chat (upto 15 people)

Mandli

Mandli solves the problem of spam in large groups on messaging platforms. Any member can post in a mandli. There are three things which separate Mandli from commonly used messaging platforms -

Structured

Post and comments instead of message format. Hide posts if you want. Clean and neatly organized.

Filtering

Slide to filter away non-urgent posts.
10 urgency points are granted to users per week, upto a maximum bank-roll of 30. Users can make as many non-urgent posts as they want. They will be easy to filter out.

No fear of missing out

Don't miss the important stuff. Subscribe to see the high urgency posts directly in your feed. No need to check a normally spammy group.

Circles

Only you can post in your circles. Your posts will appear in the feed of those who have subscribed.

Private Circles

The circle/posts is visible to only those who have been invited. Others won't even know of its existence.
Friends is the default private circle, accessible to all your connections.

Public Circles

Anyone can see the post/circle on your profile and follow them.
Public is your default public circle.

Advantages of circles

As a receiver:

Filters

Block posts containing images. Block forwards (blocked by default).

No hard feelings

The publisher won't even know what settings you use or even if you are subscribed to the circle.

Control

Don't like what you are seeing?
The reason for seeing a post is always visible to you. Tinker your way to a beautiful feed.

Advantages of circles

As a publisher:

Privacy!

Keep things private, very!
Your private circles are visible to only those you invite.
If you make 'comments visible only to me' or disable them, there is no way for any other member to even know who else is invited to the circle.

Isolate your worlds

Reach fewer people!
Share your coding gyaan in C++ and food recipes in Kitchen Chemistry. No anxiety about content reaching uninterested people.

Fine details

You can control almost any feature using horizontal (⋯) and vertical ellipsis (⋮)
Posts, comments and chats support markdown, spoiler and math! (Yeah, we are nerds)
Clicking the comments icon toggles the comments view.
You can hide away posts. You can temporarily unhide hidden posts from the profile menu (your profile pic on top right)
Inviting people to mandlis is as easy as sharing a link

Fine details

On mobiles, the '+' button in the bottom navigation creates posts
The behavior of 'Create Post/ +' buttons is context sensitive. It changes depending on the tab you are on.
You can post to multiple circles simultaneously. Anyone who follows more than one circle will still get the same post in their feed only once.
To ease your passage from low-attention span media, explore mode is 'on' presently. You see some curated public posts while in this mode. It will automatically turn off when you have a few connections. (Of course, you can turn it off from settings! We encourage turning it off..)

Philosophy

Non-addictive

We totally hate the 'I watched random videos for a couple of hours' feeling. See only what you signed up for.
In fact, the reducing attention-span is one of the biggest reasons we came up with the platform. We don't want to subject our kids to short videos addictions.

Introvert friendly

Almost everything on tellect.in has been crafted with introverts in mind. You know, that shy friend who speaks a lot in small groups but becomes mute in a larger one.

Conversation over content

In a world, where 'content is king', we try to bring you conversation. We like to think of ourselves as a coffee table instead of a stage with a mike.

Design choices

No forwards

Forwards are the biggest source of mis-information on social media.
We have disabled forwarding in Mandli all together. Even in Circles, 'allow forwards' is disabled by default. Killing the problem at its root.

Adding media hurts the reach of posts

We encourage being to the point. No need to add unnecessary images to your ideas.

No influencing

No need to play pretend. It is very difficult for anyone to go viral on tellect.in.
For example, even if I use AI to generate a post or post filtered photos, it will only reach my friends who would know the truth anyways.
Just be yourself. Seriously!

Examples

Family/society group with a lot of spam

Create a mandli. Maybe subscribe the family group at Extreme urgency, so that I get to know if something truly urgent happens. Don't subscribe to the society group at all.

A group where I want to keep a close eye on every update

Create a mandli and subscribe it at 0 urgency. Get the messages directly in my feed. Hide away when done.
(We are building tellect.in this way)

I want to write about gardening, but not sure if everybody or anybody would like it.

Create a circle. Invite people to it, hopefully only those interested will follow. I won't be spreading spam.

Examples

Want to loosely keep in touch with old colleagues/acquaintances.

Create a mandli. Subscribe it at Medium Urgency. The 'congrats' messages will be in the comments, and the important update will be a post, as such groups often a burst of activity amidst a lull of silence.

A business where I want to share information with my customers, but not share customer information with each other.

Create a private circle. If I want to hear back from them, I keep comments to myself. Else disable comments completely if I just want to broadcast. My all-important customer information will remain confidential.

Examples

Rakesh forwards great memes in his 'Memes' circle. How do I get those?

Click on the vertical ellipsis in his 'Memes' circle. Check 'Allow forwards' and 'Allow Posts with images' and follow.

It's my cousin's b'day.

Send a chat message. Even better, make a phone call! Not everything needs to be done on tellect.in 😛.

Thank you!