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Nathan Fennel
Straight Up Browser

Research workspaces

The browser remembering which sources you actually considered

This is the largest and least obvious feature. A workspace is a named research project that owns its tabs, keeps a ledger of the sources you kept and the ones you rejected, and lets you write a document that cites exact places inside them.

Two rules explain everything else. A page enters the ledger when it settles, meaning it loaded and you stayed with it for twenty seconds. Closing a tab is how you reject a source, so it records a rejection and captures nothing.

Ordinary browsing is the default workspace, which is the absence of a workspace. Nothing is captured there.

Things to try

about 10 minutes

Worth filming

The audit view is the shot. Text on the left, sources on the right, curves between them, and it visibly answers which sentence came from where.