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title: "Swipe: useful AI skills, prompts, tools, and workflows | Ian Nuttall"
description: "A curated weekly collection of AI skills, prompts, tools, and workflows, with a searchable catalog and public issue archive."
canonical: "https://ian.is/swipe"
language: "en"
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# Steal the AI ideas that are actually worth using

A weekly collection of useful AI skills, prompts, tools, and workflows, with enough context to put each one to work.

[Open Swipe](https://swipe.md/)

Web and email · MIT

[Star on GitHub](https://github.com/iannuttall/swipe)

3 stars · Open source

## What you get in a Swipe issue

### Useful finds every week

Each issue filters the flood down to skills, prompts, tools, and workflows that are worth opening.

### Enough detail to try it

A link comes with the reason it matters and a practical idea for where it fits in real work.

### A catalog you can search

Browse the growing tool collection by what it does instead of digging through an old inbox.

### Every issue stays public

The archive keeps past finds available on the web with the same examples and links sent by email.

## Curation for people who would rather build than scroll

Selected by hand

Items earn their place because they are useful, interesting, or teach a reusable way of working.

Written for doing

The note around each link tells you what it is and where it might save time. No breathless trend summary required.

Tools remain discoverable

The public catalog and issue archive make an old recommendation easy to find after the original email is gone.

The publishing stack is open

The site, archive, newsletter system, and operator tools are available in the public repository.

## Common questions about Swipe

### How often does Swipe arrive?

Swipe is a weekly email. Published issues also stay in the public archive, so subscribing is useful but not required to read them.

### What gets included?

AI skills, prompts, tools, and workflows with a practical reason to use them. The goal is a short useful selection rather than a complete news digest.

### Can I browse without subscribing?

Yes. The tool catalog and published issue archive are public on [Swipe](https://swipe.md/).

### Is Swipe an AI news newsletter?

Not really. It skips most news and keeps practical skills, prompts, tools, and workflows that are worth trying in real work.

### Who writes Swipe?

Ian Nuttall researches and writes each issue. The selections are made by hand, with a short explanation of why each one is useful.

### Can I unsubscribe at any time?

Yes. Every email includes an unsubscribe link and public issues remain available without an account.

### Is the Swipe newsletter code open source?

Yes. The site, public archive, newsletter system, and operator tools are available in the GitHub repository.

## One useful email a week beats another endless AI feed.