Last Tuesday I needed a subject line. I knew I'd saved the perfect reference — a killer headline that actually worked on me. It took me 22 minutes to find it. In a screenshot. Unnamed. On my Desktop.
Glean — the professional swipe file for copywriters
That's why I built it — a browser extension that captures the copy you admire, organizes it by instinct, and surfaces it the moment you sit down to write.
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See how it looks — highlights, collections (try to hover), and the toolbar at the bottom of the "page".
Your subject line has 3 seconds to earn the open. Most copywriters obsess over the body — the real battle is won before anyone reads a single word.
The most effective subject lines create an itch the reader can only scratch by opening the email.
Headlines"We almost didn't launch this" — Inspoa story with a missing chapter. But Avoidfake urgency trains your list to ignore your deadlines.
Does this sound familiar?
Every copywriter collects. Almost none can retrieve.
Glean eases the capture and fixes the retrieval.
Why a swipe file beats bookmarks
Bookmarks save URLs. Notion saves structure you have to maintain. Glean saves the copy itself — with context — so you can find it when you're writing, not when you're organizing.
Bookmarks, screenshots & generic notes
- You remember the page, not the sentence you cared about.
- Folders turn into junk drawers; search can't read pixels in screenshots.
- Switching tools means rebuilding your library from scratch.
Glean
- Highlights, element captures, and crops stay tied to the live source URL.
- Full-text search, tags, collections, and projects — built for copy, not general notes.
- Export to Markdown, CSV, or JSON when you want your data portable.
Privacy. Glean only stores what you explicitly save — your highlights, captures, and notes. Nothing else from the pages you visit is collected for ads or resale. Details in our privacy policy.
Capture while you browse.
Find it when you write.
Three steps. Zero friction.
Capture
Highlight text, screenshot any element, or capture a screen region. Every capture keeps the source URL — so you can always go back to the original.
Organize
Sort into collections, add notes about why it works. Everything is indexed — full-text search, keywords, tags. Your own search engine for great copy.
Write better
When you sit down to write, your swipe file is right there. The right reference, in under 10 seconds.
This is what your library
looks like in Glean
Real captures. Annotated with why they work. Color-coded by instinct. Now you can always see where it came from.
Each card is a real capture with rich annotation. That's what makes a swipe file actually useful — not just what you saved, but why.
Features that show up
when you need them
Not a feature list. Here's what actually happens when you use Glean.
"You're reading a competitor's landing page. A headline catches your eye. You highlight it — two clicks and it's saved with the source URL, the domain, and today's date. Screenshot a pricing table while you're at it. Capture a quick note about their tone. All from the same toolbar, all in under 5 seconds."
Anything on any page. Text, elements, screenshots, notes — all captured from the browser toolbar in two clicks.
"You saved 40 captures this week. Half are already tagged — Glean auto-tagged them based on the content. The rest, you sort into 'Headlines' and 'CTAs' with one click. You add your own tags too: #saas, #email, #urgency. Next week, you search '#urgency' and everything is right there."
Collections group by type. Tags add your own language. AI auto-tags what you miss. Every capture is findable three ways.
"You have 200 captures across three months. Glean notices something: 'You've saved 14 subject lines that use numbers in the first 3 words. Here are the 5 strongest.' You didn't search for a pattern — the pattern found you."
AI suggestions surface patterns in your swipe file you didn't know were there. Your taste, analyzed.
"You're working on a rebrand. You add 23 captures to the 'Rebrand Q1' project. Now you search only within that project — headlines, voice references, competitor CTAs — all in one focused view. Nothing else gets in the way."
Projects scope everything: captures, search, suggestions. A focused lens for the job at hand.
"Your client asks 'where did you find that headline?' You click the source link — it opens the original page. And there it is: your highlight, still visible on the page exactly where you left it. Domain, URL, date, annotation — all preserved."
Every capture links back to its source. Visit the page and see your annotation right where you made it.
"It's 9am. You're writing a Black Friday email. You type 'that email I clicked that used urgency well' — and Glean finds 6 captures from the past 8 months. Subject lines, CTAs, a paragraph where the scarcity felt genuine. You didn't need the exact words. You described what you remembered."
Not just keywords — natural language search. Describe what you're looking for the way you'd tell a friend. Your personal search engine for great copy.
People who've tried it
Real feedback from early users.
Works on most major browsers
Chrome
Edge
Brave
Opera
Vivaldi
Arc
and other Chromium-based browsers
Simple pricing.
Professional tool.
Every plan is 50% off for the Founding 200 — locked forever.
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Founding 200: The first 200 members lock in 50% off forever — no matter what the price becomes.
I'm a software engineer who also writes — marketing copy, emails, landing pages, and once I was drunk enough to write a book. I also tried flirting with girls, but that was too hard, so I built this instead.
I couldn't find my own swipe file.
I had the Notion database. The screenshots folder. The bookmarks. All the same broken systems every writer complains about. I'd see brilliant copy in the wild, save it somewhere, and never find it again when I actually sat down to write.
So I built Glean — a browser extension and a personal search engine for great copy. Capture text the moment you see it, color-code it by type, attach the source, and find it in seconds when you need it. I built it for myself.
It turned out more useful than I expected. Other writers tried it and said the same thing — "I actually go back to what I saved now."
This isn't a VC-backed startup. It's a focused tool built by someone who uses it every day. I'm looking for 200 writers who want to shape what it becomes. If that sounds like you, I'd love you to be one of them.
What's shipping next
Founding members get early access and shape what ships first.
What are you waiting for?
You saw the features. You saw the pricing. The first 200 get 50% off every plan — for life. The rate disappears when the spots fill up.
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