Students & learners
Flashcard decks, Quizlet sets, and YouTube lectures hoarded the week before exams.
It's annoying: we store so much stuff—then lose it across apps.
Shovl is the one inbox that remembers.
Shovl pulls notes, links, PDFs, and images into one library, enriches them in the background, and lets you search (keyword + meaning) and chat with answers that cite what you actually saved—not the whole web.
We're web-first for now. Down the road we plan a Chrome extension and a mobile app so you can save tabs, snippets, and screenshots in a jiffy—same library, fewer copy-paste detours.
Built for individuals
Researchers
That odd figure from a paper, a half-remembered citation, and methods you’ll need when you actually write.
Read-it-later folks
Long essays, newsletters, and articles you swear you’ll read—if the tab pile ever shrinks.
Writers & creators
Videos to study for pacing and hooks, screenshots of layouts you like, and stray ideas dumped in notes.
Indie & side projects
RFC threads, API docs, competitor pages, and README drafts you’ll “clean up later.”
Tab hoarders (honestly)
Dozens of open tabs, three “important” windows, and the one screenshot that was actually worth keeping.
Students & learners
Students & learners
Flashcard decks, Quizlet sets, and YouTube lectures hoarded the week before exams.
Researchers
Researchers
That odd figure from a paper, a half-remembered citation, and methods you’ll need when you actually write.
Read-it-later folks
Read-it-later folks
Long essays, newsletters, and articles you swear you’ll read—if the tab pile ever shrinks.
Writers & creators
Writers & creators
Videos to study for pacing and hooks, screenshots of layouts you like, and stray ideas dumped in notes.
Indie & side projects
Indie & side projects
RFC threads, API docs, competitor pages, and README drafts you’ll “clean up later.”
Tab hoarders (honestly)
Tab hoarders (honestly)
Dozens of open tabs, three “important” windows, and the one screenshot that was actually worth keeping.
Students & learners
Students & learners
Flashcard decks, Quizlet sets, and YouTube lectures hoarded the week before exams.
Researchers
Researchers
That odd figure from a paper, a half-remembered citation, and methods you’ll need when you actually write.
Read-it-later folks
Read-it-later folks
Long essays, newsletters, and articles you swear you’ll read—if the tab pile ever shrinks.
Writers & creators
Writers & creators
Videos to study for pacing and hooks, screenshots of layouts you like, and stray ideas dumped in notes.
Indie & side projects
Indie & side projects
RFC threads, API docs, competitor pages, and README drafts you’ll “clean up later.”
Tab hoarders (honestly)
Tab hoarders (honestly)
Dozens of open tabs, three “important” windows, and the one screenshot that was actually worth keeping.
The Problem
Your saves are scattered across too many tools.
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Bookmarks, notes, and files live in different apps—you’re the only one connecting the dots
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PDFs and screenshots pile up faster than you can tag or file them
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Keyword search misses paraphrases; semantic-only search misses exact terms
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Generic chat won’t cite your library when you need a grounded answer
The AnswerOne library.
One library.
Search, relate, and chat on your terms.
Shovl normalizes captures into documents and chunks, enriches them asynchronously, and keeps retrieval hybrid so keywords and meaning both work.
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Enriched
Summaries, tags, and embeddings as jobs complete
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Hybrid retrieval
Full-text plus vectors merged into one ranking
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Grounded chat
Citations from retrieved chunks, abstain when weak
Inbox flowCapture once.
Capture once.
Process in the background.
Your captures land in one library, queue for extraction and enrichment, then show up in search and chat—without you babysitting each file.
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Your private space
Built for one person: everything you capture stays in your library. Sharing can come later if it still fits how you work.
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Capture anything
Paste a note, save a URL, upload a PDF, or drop an image. Duplicates and checksums can be detected as processing runs.
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Let enrichment finish
Jobs run asynchronously: extraction, chunking, embeddings, and summaries land when they are ready—not blocking your next capture.
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Search, relate, chat
Hybrid retrieval merges full-text and vector hits. Chat uses retrieved chunks only, caps per-document dominance, and cites sources.
Summarize this PDFFind that articleWhat did I save about X?
Library home
Your Shovl inbox
Ask a question—hybrid search pulls the right chunks from what you saved, not the whole public web.
How stuff gets in
Four capture lanes—one shared library underneath
Capture
Quick notes
Pasted text and snippets
Your saves only
Capture
URLs & pages
Articles and pages you save
Your saves only
Capture
Files & images
PDFs and screenshots with OCR when needed
Your saves only
Capture
Audio & video
Voice memos, audio recordings, and video—kept next to everything else you save
Your saves only
Why this matters
Notes do not bleed into PDFs: each capture keeps its own extraction path, then feeds the same searchable library with clear provenance.
Provenance first
Why Shovl
For your brain—not a company wiki.
A narrow, honest focus: web-first capture, real background jobs, hybrid search, and chat that has to cite your stuff—or admit it’s unsure.
Inbox🧠
Capture notes, URLs, PDFs, and images.
Drop in pasted notes, saved links, document uploads, and screenshots. Each capture becomes a source you can track while it processes.
Multi-type
one library pipeline
Process⚡
Async AI enrichment.
Titles, short summaries, suggested tags, and embeddings are produced in the background so you are not blocked on heavy files.
Queue
background jobs
Retrieve💬
Hybrid search + grounded chat.
Combine keyword search with vector retrieval, browse related items, and chat with citations—or get an honest “I don’t know” when evidence is thin.
Citations
required in answers