A board for the things you don’t want to lose.

Drop in a link, a screenshot, a PDF, a voice note, a whole chat. Sift works out what each one is and sorts it for you. Then just ask it things.

No credit card. No setup. No folders, ever.

the warmth, not the shape

uneven on purpose

Why boards become graveyardsnngroup.com
Kitchen specPDF · 6 pages
Walking home1:12
Claude · session 41one save, then the thread forms

Go on, drag one. It is a real board.

Drop in anything.

Sift reads it, works out what it actually is, and keeps the useful part. You never pick a folder.

Text found“hand-turned brass, 1960s”
That brass lampScreenshot · read with OCR

Screenshots

The text inside the picture gets read, so a screenshot stops being a dead end.

ClaudeSession 41

So onboarding starts with one save?

Yes — one save, then the thread forms. No tour.

Kept from this sessionOne save first, then the thread formsDoes the tour ever come back?Onboarding shape1 decision · 1 open question

Whole chat sessions

Push one in from Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor and the decision inside it outlives the transcript it was buried in.

Spec · v3

Kitchen, north wall

Worktop runs the full 2.4m with no joint. The salvaged brass pulls set the tone, so every other finish follows them.

Lime plaster above the tiles, not paint.

Lighting decided separately.

6 / 12
Kitchen specPDF · 12 pages · 1 note

Documents

PDFs, Word files and decks open here, with the text pulled out so one passage can be cited.

Nakagawa WoodworksKyoto · 35.0116, 135.7681

Places

Anything carrying a location lands on one shared map with the rest of them.

Pulled from 4 savesExtracted automatically

Colour, on its own

Sift pulls the palette out of what you save, so a mood becomes searchable.

C5fx=SUM(C2:C4)
Sourcing budget3 sheets · 412 rows · GBP

Spreadsheets

Cells stay cells, formulas included, so a budget still reads as a budget instead of a blob of text.

1:12

“…the thing I keep coming back to is that nobody actually files anything, so the filing has to happen on its own…”

Walking homeVoice note · transcribed

Voice notes

Transcribed on the way in, so the thing you said better out loud is findable by what you said.

Lounge chairGLB · 1 mesh · 3 materials

3D models

Turn it in an inspector instead of downloading it to check one measurement.

Why boards become graveyardsnngroup.com · 11 min read

“Systems that require manual upkeep decay fastest — the cost is paid every single time, and the benefit arrives much later.”

Why you kept it“the argument against filing”Saved in MarchLink · in To read

Links, with the reason you kept them

One line in your own words is what makes a save findable in six weeks. The title never was.

Then just ask.

Type what you half remember. Sift searches by meaning, so you do not need the title, the app it came from, or the day you saved it.

Try one
what did we decide about onboarding?

One save first, then the thread forms. No tour.

Decided 6 weeks ago · Claude session 41
Out of these saves
ChatOnboarding, session 41NoteKickoff notesImageFirst-run sketch

It gets on well with your AI tools.

Point Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor at a board and they can read the whole thing. Ask one of them to write something back and it lands on the board with its name on it.

Claude Codewrote this · 2 min ago

Auth: switched to the device-code flow

Redirect URIs were the blocker on desktop. Device code keeps the CLI out of the browser, so there is nothing to register per install.

Landed in DecidedWrite access · this board only
  • Claude
  • ChatGPT
  • Cursor
  • Perplexity
  • Claude Code
  • Anything that speaks MCP

Entirely optional — Sift is perfectly happy on its own. Read-only when you connect it, and if you want an agent to write back you hand it one board at a time.

Two kinds of people use Sift.

If you build things with AI

One board per project.

Every decision, spec, screenshot and chat in one place, so tomorrow’s session starts where today’s finished.

  • Push a chat in and keep the decision
  • Ask what you settled on, and why
  • Works with the tools you already use
If you just save a lot of things

One board per anything.

A trip, a kitchen, a moodboard, a reading pile. Drop things in as you find them and let Sift keep the shape of it.

  • Nothing to file, ever
  • Places land on a map together
  • Find it by what it was, not what it was called

Start with one thing.

Save something you would otherwise lose. The board builds itself from there, and it gets more useful the more you throw at it.

Made by people who kept losing things.

Sift