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A decade of bookmarks, finally useful
The folder you never open Everybody has one: hundreds of saved links, filed under names that made sense at the time, a good third of them pointing at pages that no longer exist. The bookmark bar is a graveyard of intentions, and the reason is not laziness — it is that saving is cheap and […]
From a web page to a chart you can trust
A number you cannot check is just a rumour Every research task ends in the same place: a figure sitting on a page, and no clean way to get it into a form you can work with. You retype it into a spreadsheet, lose the source somewhere in the process, and three weeks later cannot […]
Running your week from the side panel
The list is not the problem — the scattering is Most people do not need another to-do app. They already have four: a notes app, a calendar, a chat thread with themselves, and a stack of browser tabs standing in for “things I meant to read”. The difficulty was never writing tasks down. It is […]
Brainstorming in your browser without losing the thread
The problem is not the ideas, it is the residue A brainstorm produces three things at once: half-formed ideas, a trail of pages you looked at, and — if you are lucky — a decision. The ideas end up in a chat window, the pages end up as twenty-six tabs, and the decision ends up […]
Searching your own documents: what a library actually does
An attachment and a library are not the same tool Attaching a document to a conversation solves exactly one question, in exactly one chat, and then the document is gone again. That is fine for a one-off. It is useless for the thing people actually want, which is: this body of material is the ground […]
An AI that remembers your goals, and shows its receipts
Why “it remembers you” is usually a warning sign Most memory features work like this: the assistant quietly forms an opinion about you, and from then on that opinion shapes every answer you get. You cannot see it, you cannot check it, and when it is subtly wrong the assistant becomes subtly and permanently wrong […]