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Sift
Save links, ask questions, get cited answers
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Save links, ask questions, get cited answers
7 followers
Sift is a personal library for everything you save. Drop in links, articles, and videos with a right-click or the Chrome extension, then ask your library questions in plain English and get cited answers pulled from your own saved content. No folders, no tags, search is the only navigation. Free for your first 50 saves, with AI search included from the start. Built solo, launching today.
The "ask your library" feature sounds genuinely useful, especially the cited answers pulling from your own saves. One thing I'd love to see is the ability to export or back up my library as plain markdown files, so I'm not locked into Sift if I ever want to move elsewhere or just keep a personal archive offline.
@elabinboaqxmg that's a really good point and a fair concern. No lock-in can be very useful for someone who's even trying out personal libraries too.
Markdown makes sense as the format too, since it keeps citations and structure readable outside Sift.
I'll add this to the backlog properly rather than let it get lost in a comment thread. If you end up trying Sift and hit this wall for real, let me know, that's the kind of signal that moves something up the list faster than a launch-day request alone.
Thanks for the comment Ela.
Congrats on the launch, love the no-folders approach. One thing I'd really want is mobile capture that works just as smoothly as the desktop right-click, maybe a share sheet extension on iOS/Android so saving a link from Twitter or Safari doesn't break the flow when I'm away from my desk.
@veyselt9on thank you Veysel.
Yes absolutely. That is next on the roadmap.
That will be very handy when you're on the go and see an interesting article or a video which you don't have time to fully ready or watch.
Right-clicked a YouTube link into my library and the AI answer actually pulled a timestamp from the video. That's the kind of "wait, it worked" moment that makes me keep a tab open.
@ayaz586076 Sift understands the video context using its transcript which is what makes searching inside videos possible. Thanks for the comment Ayaz