For blog writers & creators

Turn saved research into better drafts

Save quotes, examples, stats, articles, Reddit threads, and half-formed ideas while you browse. Gleanit keeps the source, note, tags, and context attached, so when it's time to outline, draft, revise, or prompt AI, your best material is ready.

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You saved the source. But can you find it?

You read a sentence that says exactly what your blog post needs. A stat that supports your argument. A Reddit comment with perfect customer language. A competitor article with a structure worth studying. A weird example that would make the intro click.

Three weeks later, you're staring at a blank draft. You know you saved something useful. There was a punchy way someone said it. You remember the feeling of the phrase, not the phrase. The exact source is technically somewhere in your tabs, screenshots, bookmarks, notes, or reading app.

But now you need the source, the quote, the note, the context, and why it mattered.

So you dig through links, highlights, screenshots, and half-written docs… then write from memory anyway.

Capture → Find → Use

From scattered sources to a draft you can start

The same three moments happen every time you write from research: you capture useful material, try to find it later, and use it when outlining or drafting. Gleanit keeps that loop connected.

The old way

Sound familiar?

  • You read a sentence that says exactly what your post needs, so you highlight it, screenshot it, save the link, or throw it into a notes app.
  • You tell yourself you'll come back to it later. Maybe it's a quote, a stat, a Reddit comment, a paragraph with the perfect rhythm, or just a punchy way someone said the thing you've been trying to explain.
  • Weeks later, you're staring at a blank draft. You remember the feeling of the phrase, not the phrase.
  • You go looking, but it's somewhere in bookmarks, tabs, screenshots, highlights, notes, or a reading app.
  • You finally find part of it, but the source is missing. Or the note is gone. Or you can't remember why it mattered.
  • Then AI could help, so you spend half the writing session rebuilding the research instead of writing.

With Gleanit

Your research stays usable.

  • Capture quotes, sources, and ideas
  • Find them with context attached
  • Use them for drafts, outlines, and prompts
See what stays attached
  • Save the exact quote, passage, stat, article, comment, or page section you noticed
  • Add the note while the reason is still fresh
  • Keep the source URL and page title attached automatically
  • Tag by topic, draft, argument, source, example, or idea
  • Keep each capture inside the right essay, post, newsletter, or research project
  • Reopen the original source in one click
  • Search by keyword, tag, source, or meaning, including images
  • Stay focused on one draft instead of your whole messy library
  • Collect examples around the same topic before you start writing
  • Keep the thought, source, and context together so the idea does not disappear

For AI workflows

  • Connect Cursor, Claude, or ChatGPT through MCP
  • Let AI search the same project-scoped research library you use
  • Give AI the quote, note, source, tags, draft brief, and context in one place
  • Ask AI to turn saved research into outlines, sections, intros, arguments, or draft notes
  • Stop copy-pasting links, quotes, screenshots, and explanations into chat

Oh, almost forgot...

Gleanit also helps you see patterns in what you save.

So instead of starting from a blank doc, you can see the quotes, examples, arguments, and strange little ideas your draft is already built from.

Actual workflow

Write from the research you already saved.

Click a highlight to see the note, source, tags, and context that stay attached when you outline or draft.

Reading on the live page

Writing, Briefly

As for how to write well, here's the short version: Write a bad version 1 as fast as you can; rewrite it over and over; cut out everything unnecessary; write in a conversational tone; develop a nose for bad writing, so you can see and fix it in yours; imitate writers you like; if you can't get started, tell someone what you plan to write about, then write down what you said; expect 80% of the ideas in an essay to happen after you start writing it, and 50% of those you start with to be wrong; be confident enough to cut; have friends you trust read your stuff and tell you which bits are confusing or drag; don't (always) make detailed outlines; mull ideas over for a few days before writing; carry a small notebook or scrap paper with you; start writing when you think of the first sentence; if a deadline forces you to start before that, just say the most important sentence first; write about stuff you like; don't try to sound impressive; don't hesitate to change the topic on the fly; use footnotes to contain digressions; use anaphora to knit sentences together; read your essays out loud to see (a) where you stumble over awkward phrases and (b) which bits are boring (the paragraphs you dread reading); try to tell the reader something new and useful; work in fairly big quanta of time; when you restart, begin by rereading what you have so far; when you finish, leave yourself something easy to start with; accumulate notes for topics you plan to cover at the bottom of the file; don't feel obliged to cover any of them; write for a reader who won't read the essay as carefully as you do, just as pop songs are designed to sound ok on crappy car radios; if you say anything mistaken, fix it immediately; ask friends which sentence you'll regret most; go back and tone down harsh remarks; publish stuff online, because an audience makes you write more, and thus generate more ideas; print out drafts instead of just looking at them on the screen; use simple, germanic words; learn to distinguish surprises from digressions; learn to recognize the approach of an ending, and when one appears, grab it.

Try it: Click any highlight. Your note and source stay attached when you reopen the page weeks later, just like in the app.

Writing references

Patterns worth using

Stuff about writing patterns, phrases, structures, and examples I noticed while reading.

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