# Explorations

**Explorations** are efforts to locate and learn about the areas [Ping Practitioners](https://pingpractice.org/people/) are resonating with and returning to in their practices.

Below you will find a list of the areas that have emerged so far.

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If something here resonates, [please be in touch](#user-content-fn-1)[^1]! The more eyes and expertise the more we can learn *together*.
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## Index

<table><thead><tr><th width="211">Exploration</th><th width="154.33333333333331">Date</th><th>Description</th><th>Stage<select><option value="NC7WhCOWJMUl" label="Implemented" color="blue"></option><option value="vNGFa2WcpG07" label="Integrated" color="blue"></option></select></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><a href="/pages/mluqg2ecX0BNLqmGJ2ir">Ping Randomizer</a></td><td><strong>2023</strong><br>Summer</td><td>Tap a button, see a random Ping</td><td><span data-option="vNGFa2WcpG07">Integrated</span></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/pages/n6pnYrxw7ZAtsA5eUXPw">Thermal Printer</a></td><td><strong>2025</strong><br>Summer</td><td>Print Pings using a thermal printer.</td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Export Ping</td><td><strong>2025</strong><br>Summer</td><td>Export a Ping for use in other contexts/tools.</td><td><span data-option="vNGFa2WcpG07">Integrated</span></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/pages/MS5MM1iKkVPneP9PoK7P">Long press</a></td><td><strong>2025</strong> <br>Summer</td><td>Long press on any ping to reveal a set of actions</td><td><span data-option="vNGFa2WcpG07">Integrated</span></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/pages/0hGUotCBzmGh09FQskgs">Custom lenses</a></td><td><strong>2025</strong><br>Summer</td><td>Create a custom "lens" made up of related Pings</td><td><span data-option="vNGFa2WcpG07">Integrated</span></td></tr><tr><td><a href="/pages/u25N2N9HJWITN6uy2jjb">Place in Capture</a></td><td><strong>2025</strong><br>Summer</td><td>Replace the defualt "Listening for pings..." helper text with a ping of your choosing.</td><td><span data-option="vNGFa2WcpG07">Integrated</span></td></tr><tr><td><p></p><p></p><p><strong>"Practice" view</strong>: </p></td><td></td><td><p></p><p>A view further "zoomed out" from "grid" that would enable you to, at a glance:</p><ul><li><em>See when you have and have not pinged</em> </li><li><em>Navigate back to specific days</em></li><li><em>Develop a general sense for your high-level practice. Think: weather.</em></li></ul><p>Repeitious / cyclical rather than direcitonal </p></td><td></td></tr><tr><td><p></p><p><strong>Imbue a Ping with Color (Chris R.)</strong></p><p></p></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td><p></p><p><strong>Public Pings</strong></p></td><td></td><td><em>What might a Ping outside of your practice look like? How might it be related to your internal practice?</em></td><td></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Ping notebook</strong></td><td></td><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Ping-style conversation</strong></td><td></td><td><em>Think Elliott at November Wordhack event.</em></td><td></td></tr><tr><td><strong>"Quote" ping</strong></td><td></td><td><em>Think</em> <a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1kY9Y2DyZt7o6fS8IEpfwilEqkcchytSZb0FZjLoKTwc/edit?slide=id.g34cc7050a03_0_259#slide=id.g34cc7050a03_0_259"><em>April Practitioner Call</em></a></td><td></td></tr><tr><td>Artifacts/Templates</td><td></td><td>Think: maps, family trees, templates (poems, titles, etc.)...artifacts that can hold and create meaning. <a data-footnote-ref href="#user-content-fn-2">[1]</a></td><td></td></tr></tbody></table>

[^1]: <peter@pingpractice.org>

[^2]: “Form is not a mere lopping off of meaning that you don't have room to put into your poem; it is an aid to finding new meaning, a stimulus to condensing your meaning, to simplifying and purifying it, and to discovering on a more universal dimension the essence you wish to express.” - Rollo May


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