On keeping a few good things
Selection, arrangement, display. Notes on the part of collecting that no tool can do for you.
- 3 August 2026
How to 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.
- 3 August 2026
The case for an AI that reads your library, not the web
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.
- 3 August 2026
What to ask a library you built
The questions worth asking your own saved collection, the ones that waste your time, and why the difference is about recall, not cleverness.
- 28 July 2026
Keeping things on purpose
From a Babylonian priestess labelling artefacts to a browser folder of saved links, collecting has always been the same act: deciding what is worth keeping and why.
- 27 July 2026
What content curation actually is
Curation is selection plus arrangement plus display. Collecting is only the first third, which is why most saved links go nowhere.
- 27 July 2026
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.
- 4 August 2026
How to organise bookmarks so you use them
A practical method: cut hard, tag by subject not by intent, allow multiple homes, and give the good ones a published destination.
- 27 July 2026
How to share a curated list people actually open
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.
- 27 July 2026
Bookmarks and read-later are not the same thing
A bookmark is a permanent address. A read-later save is a temporary intention. Using one tool for both is why both piles fail.
- 27 July 2026
How to build a reading list people actually follow
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.
- 3 August 2026
What Kyurations costs, and what it does not do
Kyurations is free, exports everything, and does not sell your data. Here is what it deliberately does not do, before you sign up.