Cnvs

You keep the link and lose the reason you saved it.

If you do creative or research work you collect across Substack, GitHub, Figma, social feeds and quick notes. Bookmarks flatten that trail into titles and URLs. Come back months later and the link is still there, but you can't remember what it was for.

When I asked friends and colleagues, they guessed they spend around 30% of their research time finding things they had already found once. They had plenty of places to store things. What they couldn't keep was the context.

Saved things that stay next to each other.

I tried a canvas that could take the mess of real research without turning into another heavy creative tool. Putting things in space shows how they relate: a reference next to the note about it, an image next to a reminder, a collection next to the question it raised.

What a clip is.

In Cnvs a saved link is a small object. It carries a note, tags, a reminder and a position on a canvas. Canvases nest inside canvases, which gives you another level of grouping without a strict hierarchy.

Where it is now.

Cnvs hasn't launched, so there are no usage numbers yet. What I have is a working app where the idea explains itself in the first minute: you see your whole collection at once, and the ordinary bookmark tools (tags, search, reminders) are still there under it.