Digital Tools for Meaningful Conversations

✨ Key Tools

The Curious Souls Café web app is built around a few core components designed to facilitate connection and conversation.

🚀 Getting Started

Step into meaningful conversations with ease! Here's how to use the app:

1. Launch the Web App
   Open the app in your browser: app.curioussouls.cafe.

2. Invite Others
   Share the QR code on the main page so others can join instantly.

3. Pick a Topic
   Choose a question deck that resonates with your group. The Icebreaker deck is recommended for first-timers.

4. Start the Conversation
   Each person chooses one of the displayed questions, and the group decides which to discuss first.

What is Curious Souls Café?

Curious Souls Café is a "third place" away from home and work, founded to counter the isolation of modern life. It's a global community that hosts events where people can explore life's big questions together. Our philosophy is centered on the power of face-to-face conversations to build deeper bonds in a safe, non-judgmental environment. This web app was originally created to support our in-person and online events.

To learn more about the initiative, check out our main website.

📚 Topics from Our Question Decks

At the heart of our gatherings are questions designed to guide soul-searching discussions. This app includes numerous decks on diverse themes, many of which were co-developed with our global community.

• Adulthood: Explore the holistic journey of adulting—personal growth, authenticity, and connection.
• Authenticity: Align your actions with your values and embrace your true self.
• Clarity: How we find, test, and live our truth—cutting through noise with values, self-awareness, and present-moment insight.
• Entrepreneurship: Ignite self-leadership, entrepreneurial thinking, and bold experimentation in designing a purposeful, resilient life.
• Flourishing: Blending ancient wisdom, positive psychology, and indigenous perspectives to spark deep dialogue on purpose, virtue, resilience, and flourishing.
• Flow: A journey to sharpening your focus and mastering the art of effortless engagement.
• Focus: How we find, lose, and design focus—solo and together—through habits, environment, emotions, and mindful practice.
• Friendship: Deepen connection and explore the many facets of meaningful friendships.
• Global Curiosities: Questions written by participants from our events around the world.
• Happiness: Explore your personal definition and journey with happiness.
• Interdependence: Explore interdependent connection and the invisible threads that sustain our relationships and communities.
• Icebreaker: Spark lighthearted, meaningful, and heart-warming conversations.
• Inner Child: Reconnect with your playful younger self and nurture creativity.
• Languages We Live: Dive into the curious space where our words, thoughts, and identities meet.
• Legacy: Reflect on the impact you make in the world and transform your values into a meaningful legacy.
• Love Relationships: Reflect on the dynamics of love and intimacy.
• Parenting: Inspire reflection, share insights, and spark meaningful conversations about the joys, challenges, and growth in raising children.
• Purpose: Explore meaning, and the journey toward a fulfilling life, blending wisdom from philosophy, literature, and personal reflection.
• Reflection: Explore how reflection transforms memories into meaning, challenges into resilience, and endings into new beginnings.
• Reimagine: Explore evolving perspectives, personal growth and reimagine life’s narratives through self-awareness, curiosity, and renewal.
• Resilience: Explore how you adapt, and find meaning—within yourself and with others—when life tests your limits.
• Seoul Vibe: A reflection on modern life’s complexities—purpose, emotion, relationships, identity, and culture—discussed and made in Seoul.
• Solitude: Distinguish healthy alone time from loneliness and harness its power for self-awareness and richer connections.
• Synergy: True collaboration—how diverse teams achieve more together through trust, shared purpose, leadership, and adaptive dynamics.
• The Mind Speaks: Reflect on thoughts, feelings, mindfulness, and personal well-being.
• Transitions: Navigate life’s changes with prompts that foster reflection and personal growth.
• True Wealth: Explore what it means to live a truly rich life—beyond material wealth—through questions that spark reflection on abundance, sufficiency, connection, and purpose
• Why We Love: A deep dive into the motivations behind our relationships—exploring security, companionship, validation, and love to better understand our "why."
• Work that Resonates: Explore your evolving relationship with work, purpose, and fulfillment.

💖 We express our heartfelt gratitude to our Singaporean facilitator for creating the question sets for The Mind Speaks, and co-developing Happiness and Love Relationships, our Seoul facilitator and participants for Seoul Vibe, and all participants who contributed to the Global Curiosities deck.

✨ App Features & Tools

• Question Decks: Browse and select from dozens of themed question decks to guide your conversations.

• Virtual Dice Roller: Use the floating dice icon to randomly select a color-coded team to start the discussion.

• Action Prompts: Engage in meaningful bonding actions, often used with the dice roller's "challenge" feature.

• Get Random Questions: Select the number of questions to display from any deck.

• Save Questions: Tap the star icon on any question to add it to a "Saved Questions" list for easy reference during a discussion.

• Search and Filter: Use the search bar on the main page to find topics, within a topic to find specific questions, or on the "Manage Saved Items" page to search your saved items and notes.

• Light & Deep: Filter questions by difficulty levels: 🌱 (light), ☕ (middle), and 🌀 (deep)

• Go to Question Number: There is a question number at the top right corner of each question (except for dynamic question decks) that can be shared with other participants to quickly jump to a particular question. Use the "Go to" feature to jump to a specific question (e.g., "5") or multiple ones (e.g., "2, 5, 12").

• Copy, Share, & Look Up: Select a question to open a menu. You can copy the question text, share a direct link to that question, or look it up on search engines (Google, Brave, etc.) and translators (DeepL, Bing, etc.).

• Submit Custom Questions: Add your own list of questions for a private session. Your custom list is saved locally in your browser. This feature is also useful to show ad-hoc questions during meetings.

• Favorite Topics: Tap the star icon next to a topic to move it to the top of the list for quick access.

• Manage Saved Items: A dedicated "Manage Saved Items" page lets you view all saved questions and actions from all topics in one place.

• Take Notes: Add and edit personal notes for any saved question. Notes are saved locally in your browser and can be exported.

• Export Saved Items & Notes: Back up all your saved questions and notes to an HTML file from the "Manage Saved Items" page.

• Join Interactive Sessions: Join a live, interactive session using a code. Participants can submit questions to a shared board for everyone to see and discuss.

• Optimized for On-the-Go: The web app is designed to work seamlessly on smartphones and tablets.

💡 Tips for Using the App

• Highlight the Chosen Question: Tap the chosen question to highlight it. This helps everyone focus on the active prompt.

• Question Color: A random color (blue, red, or yellow) will be revealed after tapping. These colors match the default options of the dice, which can be used to decide whose question goes first.

• Return to Main Page: Clicking the round logo at the top of any page will take you back to the topic selection screen.

• Quick Scroll to Top: Use the sticky "Top" button at the bottom-right to quickly return to the top of any page.

• Direct Topic Links: Each topic has a unique URL (e.g., app.curioussouls.cafe/topics/icebreaker/) that you can share directly with participants.

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Thank you for visiting the Curious Souls Café! We hope it sparks many interesting conversations. 😊