Creativity is intelligence having fun.
attributed to Einstein
We keep asking AI for answers instead of asking ourselves better questions.
Keep what moves you.
Highlight a sentence. Leave a thought. Watch your ideas connect. Glean is a quiet browser extension for the sentences that stay with you.
Live — how a card is born
Most highlights die in a folder somewhere. The good ones stay with you.
The good ones stay with you.
— a reminder to keep what matters
The flow
Not every highlight deserves a second brain.
Some deserve your first thought.
1.
Highlight
Select any sentence, on any page. A small quotation mark appears beside your cursor — nothing more. No popup storm, no account wall.
2.
Thought
The moment a quote is saved, write what it made you think. The thought is the point — the quote is just the excuse.
3.
Reflect
When you choose, ask AI about a card or analyze your thinking patterns. It only happens when you trigger it — using your own API key.
The wall
What have you been thinking?
Every card is a sentence someone stopped for, and the thought it left behind. Pick a source — see what you saved from the same place.
How do I know what I think until I see what I say?
E. M. Forster
The thought box is the point. The quote is just the excuse.
Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.
Anne Lamott
Note to self: unplug more.
Make something people want.
Paul Graham
And want to keep. Retention is love measured over time.
We read to know we're not alone.
William Nicholson
Maybe that's why I save sentences — they're company.
Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Applies to code, to essays, and to this very page.
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
W. B. Yeats
Every card here is a small flame, not a bucket.
You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.
Maya Angelou
Scarcity mindset doesn't apply to ideas.
The days are long but the decades are short.
Sam Altman
Read this at 1:30am. Both halves are true.
The scariest moment is always just before you start.
Stephen King
One sentence in, the fear was gone.
A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies.
George R. R. Martin
Glean is my attempt to remember at least a few of them.
Design is intelligence made visible.
Alina Wheeler
Good design is quiet. It doesn't ask for attention; it earns trust.
Simplicity is the soul of efficiency.
Austin Freeman
Every feature not added is a feature nobody has to learn.
Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.
Benjamin Franklin
Highlighting is barely involvement. Writing a thought is more.
Details
Built for quiet thinking.
Local first
Your cards live in your browser, not on our servers. AI and sync credentials never leave local storage. Your thoughts stay yours unless you say otherwise.
Follows the night
Dark mode tracks your system, or switch it by hand. The dark theme is warm ink, not cold black — made for reading at midnight.
Syncs if you want
Send cards to a Notion database, or back everything up to Nutstore over WebDAV. Optional, quiet, and off by default.
Speaks three languages
中文, English, and Français — because good sentences are written in every language.
There are thoughts worth keeping.
Glean Quietly collect what matters.