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Why we're building 1234asdf

The articles kept piling up, but we never went back to them. So we decided to fix the getting-back part, not the saving part.

The articles we read piled up in bookmarks and in "message to myself" chats, and we almost never found them again. Saving wasn't the problem. Getting things back out was. So we started building an app that saves an article with one share, keeps its key sentences and source, and finds it again along with your own notes.

Save → Organize → Find again → To your AI
These are the four steps 1234asdf is about. The first three work today. The AI connection is coming.

Three things we decided from day one

  • We never delete the original. The article stays exactly as it was when you saved it.
  • When AI organizes, your edits come first. The title, the key sentences and the notes are yours.
  • When something is missing, we say so. If we could only fetch part of the original, it's marked that way.
Knowledge detail screen: my note at the top, then key points organized as a procedure; tapping a key sentence has opened the “From the original” panel
Tap a sentence to see which passage of the original it came from. Your note stays separate, at the top.

Today: on Android

Get it on Google Play and start right away. We keep polishing it with feedback from the people who use it. Next up is connecting the AI you already use, so it can look things up in your library. We'll keep telling that story here as it takes shape.