# Kyurations

> Kyurations is a curation tool for people who collect things worth keeping. You save a link, a note or a file from anywhere on the web, and it arrives as a card that looks like where it came from, with its cover, author, tags and a short gist already filled in. Lists form themselves out of what you save, you rearrange them until they feel right, and you publish the ones you want seen. It is free, your collection is yours, and you can export it at any time.

## Product

- [Kyurations](https://www.kyurations.in/): what it is and what it does
- [The guide](https://www.kyurations.in/guide): every capability, in 10 chapters. The authoritative answer to what the product can and cannot do
- [Discover](https://www.kyurations.in/discover): every published collection, free and paid
- [Ask Kyuri](https://www.kyurations.in/ask): chat that answers from your own saved library, citing the items it used
- [Newsletters](https://www.kyurations.in/newsletters): publish a collection that mails itself to subscribers on a cadence
- [MCP server](https://www.kyurations.in/mcp): read and curate your library from an MCP client
- [Release notes](https://www.kyurations.in/release-notes): the running log of what shipped
- [Privacy](https://www.kyurations.in/privacy): what is stored and what is not
- [Full text](https://www.kyurations.in/llms-full.txt): every editorial page below, in full, in one file

## The guide

- [Saving things](https://www.kyurations.in/guide/saving): Every way something gets into Kyurations: the extension, a pasted link, a note, a file, a bulk import, Readwise, X bookmarks, Instagram, and your AI tools.
- [What happens on save](https://www.kyurations.in/guide/enrichment): Every save is read, summarised and tagged before it lands. What Kyurations extracts, how platform-true cards work, and what it does with video and audio.
- [Your Bower](https://www.kyurations.in/guide/bower): One surface holding everything you save, in three layouts. Filter by tag, platform and type, work the grid from the keyboard, act on many things at once.
- [Reading and marking up](https://www.kyurations.in/guide/reading): Kyurations opens what you saved instead of sending you away: a reader for articles and PDFs, highlights that stick to the words, transcripts and a reel player.
- [Lists](https://www.kyurations.in/guide/lists): A list is the arrangement. How lists form automatically from your Bower, what signing a draft means, and how to build and shape one by hand.
- [Sharing and publishing](https://www.kyurations.in/guide/sharing): Turn a list into a public page, send it to named people, protect it with a password, or run it as a newsletter that mails itself to subscribers.
- [Selling a collection](https://www.kyurations.in/guide/selling): Put a price on a list, let people read part of it for free, and get paid weekly. How the paywall, the split, refunds and payouts work.
- [Kyuri and AI tools](https://www.kyurations.in/guide/kyuri): Kyuri answers questions across your whole collection, with a source link on every claim. Connect Claude, Cursor or any MCP client to read and curate it too.
- [Your account and your data](https://www.kyurations.in/guide/account): Your handle, profile and connected apps, plus how to export everything you have saved in four formats and what the product does with your data.
- [Keyboard shortcuts](https://www.kyurations.in/guide/shortcuts): Every keyboard shortcut in Kyurations, by surface: the palette, go-to chords, the grid cursor, item and list actions, selection and chat.

## Writing and comparisons

- [Pocket alternatives, one year after the shutdown](https://www.kyurations.in/alternatives/pocket): Pocket closed on 8 July 2025 and Mozilla deleted the data on 8 October. Here is where its readers went, and which tool fits which reader.
- [Raindrop.io alternatives, and when to actually switch](https://www.kyurations.in/alternatives/raindrop-io): Raindrop.io is good software. Here are the cases where something else fits better, and which tool to move to for each one.
- [Notion Web Clipper alternatives for saving links](https://www.kyurations.in/alternatives/notion-web-clipper): The Notion clipper saves a row in a database. Here are the tools that save a link properly, and when to leave Notion for one.
- [Instapaper alternatives when reading is not the whole job](https://www.kyurations.in/alternatives/instapaper): Instapaper is the cleanest reader there is. Here is what to use when your saves are videos, repos and products rather than articles.
- [Bookmark manager alternatives to the browser bar](https://www.kyurations.in/alternatives/bookmark-manager): Browser bookmarks fail at around two hundred links. Here are the tools that take over, and which one matches how you actually save.
- [Readwise Reader alternatives, including the free ones](https://www.kyurations.in/alternatives/readwise-reader): Readwise Reader is excellent and costs around $10 a month. Here is what to use instead, depending on which part you wanted.
- [Omnivore alternatives after the ElevenLabs shutdown](https://www.kyurations.in/alternatives/omnivore): ElevenLabs hired the Omnivore team and closed the service in November 2024. Here is where its users went, self-hosted options included.
- [Evernote Web Clipper alternatives for saving links](https://www.kyurations.in/alternatives/evernote-web-clipper): Evernote's clipper still works and the price kept climbing. Here is what to move your saved articles to, and what each one costs.
- [Pinboard alternatives when you want more than a URL](https://www.kyurations.in/alternatives/pinboard): Pinboard is deliberately plain and run by one person. Here is what to move to when you want previews, or want a maintained team behind it.
- [mymind alternatives that cost less than $12 a month](https://www.kyurations.in/alternatives/mymind): mymind is beautiful and priced like it. Here is what gives you the visual save-anything experience for free, and what you give up.
- [Are.na alternatives for visual collecting](https://www.kyurations.in/alternatives/are-na): Are.na is the reference standard for public visual collecting. Here is what to use when the block limit or the interface gets in the way.
- [Chrome bookmarks alternatives once the bar runs out](https://www.kyurations.in/alternatives/chrome-bookmarks): Chrome's bookmark manager has not changed in a decade. Here is what to use once folders and a search box stop being enough.
- [Kyurations vs Raindrop.io](https://www.kyurations.in/vs/raindrop-io): Raindrop stores links. Kyurations arranges them for display. A direct comparison, including where Raindrop wins.
- [Kyurations vs Pocket](https://www.kyurations.in/vs/pocket): Pocket closed in July 2025. Here is what Kyurations does with the two jobs Pocket was doing, and what it does not do.
- [Kyurations vs Notion for saving links](https://www.kyurations.in/vs/notion): Notion can hold a link database. Here is what that costs you in practice, and when a database is still the right answer.
- [Kyurations vs Readwise Reader](https://www.kyurations.in/vs/readwise-reader): Reader is built for reading and highlighting. Kyurations is built for collecting and showing. Which one fits which reader.
- [Kyurations vs Instapaper](https://www.kyurations.in/vs/instapaper): Instapaper is a reader. Kyurations reads too, and keeps a collection. Which one you want depends on whether your saves are only text.
- [Kyurations vs Are.na](https://www.kyurations.in/vs/are-na): Both are for collecting in public. Are.na has the community and the block limit; Kyurations has the automatic metadata and no cap.
- [Raindrop.io vs Pocket vs Kyurations](https://www.kyurations.in/vs/raindrop-vs-pocket): Pocket is gone, Raindrop absorbed most of its users, and the three-way comparison people still search for, answered honestly.
- [Kyurations vs browser bookmarks](https://www.kyurations.in/vs/browser-bookmarks): Browser bookmarks are free and already there. Here is exactly where they stop working, and when that stops mattering.
- [What content curation actually is](https://www.kyurations.in/writing/what-is-content-curation): Curation is selection plus arrangement plus display. Collecting is only the first third, which is why most saved links go nowhere.
- [Why saved links die](https://www.kyurations.in/writing/why-saved-links-die): The average saved link is opened zero times. The cause is not laziness, it is that saving costs nothing and returns nothing.
- [How to organise bookmarks so you use them](https://www.kyurations.in/writing/how-to-organize-bookmarks): A practical method: cut hard, tag by subject not by intent, allow multiple homes, and give the good ones a published destination.
- [How to share a curated list people actually open](https://www.kyurations.in/writing/how-to-share-a-curated-list): Nine items, an order you chose, one line each, and a name that says what it is. The rules for a list someone reads to the end.
- [Bookmarks and read-later are not the same thing](https://www.kyurations.in/writing/bookmarks-vs-read-later): A bookmark is a permanent address. A read-later save is a temporary intention. Using one tool for both is why both piles fail.
- [How to build a reading list people actually follow](https://www.kyurations.in/writing/how-to-build-a-reading-list): A followed reading list has a subject, a point of view, a visible standard, and a rhythm. Most public lists have none of the four.
- [What Kyurations costs, and what it does not do](https://www.kyurations.in/writing/is-kyurations-free): Kyurations is free, exports everything, and does not sell your data. Here is what it deliberately does not do, before you sign up.
- [How to chat with your bookmarks](https://www.kyurations.in/writing/chat-with-your-bookmarks): Saved links are only worth keeping if you can get back into them. How to ask your own library questions, and what to ask it.
- [The case for an AI that reads your library, not the web](https://www.kyurations.in/writing/ai-that-reads-your-library): Retrieval over a few hundred things you chose beats a model trained on everything. Why a curated corpus is the advantage, and where it fails.
- [What to ask a library you built](https://www.kyurations.in/writing/questions-to-ask-your-library): The questions worth asking your own saved collection, the ones that waste your time, and why the difference is about recall, not cleverness.

## Subjects

- [Design](https://www.kyurations.in/discover/design): 8 public collections
- [Education](https://www.kyurations.in/discover/education): 8 public collections
- [AI](https://www.kyurations.in/discover/ai): 7 public collections
- [Creative](https://www.kyurations.in/discover/creative): 6 public collections
- [Career](https://www.kyurations.in/discover/career): 6 public collections
- [Learning](https://www.kyurations.in/discover/learning): 6 public collections
- [Architecture](https://www.kyurations.in/discover/architecture): 5 public collections
- [Art](https://www.kyurations.in/discover/art): 5 public collections
- [Creator](https://www.kyurations.in/discover/creator): 4 public collections
- [Profile](https://www.kyurations.in/discover/profile): 4 public collections
- [Creativity](https://www.kyurations.in/discover/creativity): 4 public collections
- [Geography](https://www.kyurations.in/discover/geography): 4 public collections
- [Finance](https://www.kyurations.in/discover/finance): 4 public collections
- [Investing](https://www.kyurations.in/discover/investing): 4 public collections
- [Economics](https://www.kyurations.in/discover/economics): 4 public collections
- [Content Curation](https://www.kyurations.in/discover/content-curation): 3 public collections
- [Research](https://www.kyurations.in/discover/research): 3 public collections
- [Food Science](https://www.kyurations.in/discover/food-science): 3 public collections
- [Food](https://www.kyurations.in/discover/food): 3 public collections
- [India](https://www.kyurations.in/discover/india): 3 public collections
- [Podcast](https://www.kyurations.in/discover/podcast): 3 public collections
- [AI Safety](https://www.kyurations.in/discover/ai-safety): 3 public collections
- [Developer](https://www.kyurations.in/discover/developer): 3 public collections
- [Product Strategy](https://www.kyurations.in/discover/product-strategy): 3 public collections
- [Animation](https://www.kyurations.in/discover/animation): 3 public collections
- [AI-Generated Content](https://www.kyurations.in/discover/ai-generated-content): 2 public collections
- [Health](https://www.kyurations.in/discover/health): 2 public collections
- [Fitness](https://www.kyurations.in/discover/fitness): 2 public collections
- [Cooking](https://www.kyurations.in/discover/cooking): 2 public collections
- [Recipe](https://www.kyurations.in/discover/recipe): 2 public collections
- [Interview](https://www.kyurations.in/discover/interview): 2 public collections
- [Newsletter](https://www.kyurations.in/discover/newsletter): 2 public collections
- [Philosophy](https://www.kyurations.in/discover/philosophy): 2 public collections
- [Diy](https://www.kyurations.in/discover/diy): 2 public collections
- [Social Media](https://www.kyurations.in/discover/social-media): 2 public collections
- [Cognitive Bias](https://www.kyurations.in/discover/cognitive-bias): 2 public collections
- [Deep Learning](https://www.kyurations.in/discover/deep-learning): 2 public collections
- [AI Policy](https://www.kyurations.in/discover/ai-policy): 2 public collections
- [Machine Learning](https://www.kyurations.in/discover/machine-learning): 2 public collections
- [Automation](https://www.kyurations.in/discover/automation): 2 public collections

## Curators

- [@bowerbird](https://www.kyurations.in/@bowerbird): 19 public collections, 205 items
- [@bhavyakyurates](https://www.kyurations.in/@bhavyakyurates): 1 public collections, 6 items
- [@tusharp](https://www.kyurations.in/@tusharp): 1 public collections, 42 items
- [@theagbuilder](https://www.kyurations.in/@theagbuilder): 1 public collections, 6 items