Saving things

The extension

The Chrome extension is the fastest way in, and the one most people end up using for almost everything. You are on a page worth keeping, you click the extension, and it saves. No tab switch, no copy and paste, no decision about where it goes.

It reads the page you are on rather than just its address, so a save from the extension arrives with the same cover, author, tags and summary as a save made anywhere else. You connect it once by clicking Connect, which hands it a key tied to your account. It never asks for your password.

A link, a note, or a file

Inside the app, Add item opens a box with three tabs. They cover the three things a person actually has: something they found, something they thought, and something on their machine.

• Link takes any http or https address. It reads the page first and shows you what it found, so you are approving a save rather than making one blind.
• Note has no URL and no title field. The body is the note. This is for the thought that has no link attached, which is most of the good ones. It is a proper writing surface: headings, lists, quotes, colour, links, images you paste or drop straight in, and any font on Google Fonts at any size.
• File takes an upload and treats it as a first-class item, with metadata pulled from the format rather than from a web page.

• Add itemA
• New listN

Bringing in what you already have

There are two bulk imports, and they do different jobs. Readwise walks your library, turns every source into an item and every highlight into an annotation on that item, so your marked-up passages arrive attached to the thing they came from rather than as a separate pile of quotes.

Running it twice is safe. An already-imported highlight is a no-op, so importing again after a month of reading only adds the new ones. The token you paste is used for that one request and never stored.

The second import reads a file, and it is the one for everything else: a bookmarks file from Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge or Arc, or an export from Raindrop, Pocket, Instapaper, Pinboard, Omnivore or Notion. Drop it into Settings. The file is read in your browser rather than uploaded, and what it says about each link, the title, the note and the tags, is kept instead of being thrown away and re-fetched.

Your folders come across as DRAFT lists, never signed ones. That distinction is the whole design: a signed list is one you stamped as yours, and an archive you imported wholesale has not been chosen by anybody yet. You sign the ones that turn out to be real collections and leave the rest as drafts. Re-importing the same file changes nothing, because a link you already have is not saved twice.

X and Instagram

Connect X in Settings and your bookmarks come across. Turn on auto-sync and it keeps checking, at most once every fifty-five minutes, picking up where it stopped rather than starting over. A thread arrives as one item with the whole thread in it, not as one item per post.

Instagram works the other way around. You connect your account, and anything you share to Kyurations in a DM gets saved. Posts and reels both, with the reel playable inline once it lands.

From an AI assistant

Kyurations speaks MCP, so Claude, Cursor and other agents can save on your behalf. Hand one a URL and it goes through exactly the same path as a save you made yourself: extracted, summarised, tagged, deduped. Agents can also write notes with no link attached.

This is covered properly in Kyuri and agents. The point here is that it is a real save path, not a side door with different rules.

Saving the same thing twice

You cannot end up with two copies of one page. A save is keyed on you and the URL, so saving something you already have finds the existing item instead of making another. If you saved it from the extension in March and again from your phone in August, there is still one card, and it is the one you have already annotated.

Notes are the exception, because two notes with the same words are still two thoughts.