I built Sift because I was tired of my own tabs.
I'd open a dozen articles every morning. I'd tell myself I'd read them later, but "later" meant they sat there, piling up, making me feel guilty. Some of them were genuinely worth my time. Most were not. I couldn't tell the difference without reading them first, and reading them all was impossible.
So I built a small tool to do the first pass for me.
Sift reads an article, gives you a short summary, and offers a verdict: Worth a full read, Skim this, or You can skip this. It's not trying to be smarter than you. It's just trying to save you the time you'd spend figuring out whether something is worth your time at all.
Over the past month, I've been working with a good friend (and a lot of late nights) to shape this into something more than a simple summarizer. We added a library to keep what you value. We added tags, collections, and a way to follow other readers whose taste you trust. We made sure you could export your data anytime, in Markdown or OPML, because your reading life belongs to you. We built a quiet social layer: no comments, no likes, just a simple signal that someone kept something. That signal is powerful. It says "this mattered to me" without asking for anything in return.
The design leans soft and warm. We wanted it to feel like a quiet morning with coffee, not a dashboard screaming for your attention. There's dark mode, light mode, and a palette that's more copper and clay than neon. It's built for people who already know what they want to read about, but need help sifting through the noise.
Sift is free, and it will stay free. I have no interest in charging for it. If enough people find it useful, I'll keep it running with donations or a small ethical sponsorship in the weekly digest. That's it.
You can sign up at thesift.space. Paste a link, sift it, and see if it works for you. If you have thoughts or complaints, I'd genuinely love to hear them.
This is the first blog post. I'll write more soon about how I use Sift in my daily workflow, the tech behind it, and what's coming next. Thanks for reading.