I once found this incredible article about mechanical watches with amazing interactive animations. It was most amazing article I'd ever seen.
Three weeks later when I wanted to show it to a friend... gone. Lost somewhere in my 2,847 Chrome bookmarks.
That's why I built Pensive.
Stop losing the good stuff you find online
Pensive captures the full content of articles you save. When you search for "that thing about compound interest" you'll actually find it, even if the article was titled "Money Tips #47".
Query: "mechanical watch"
→ Found in 3 saved articles
→ Not lost in Google's 2.4 billion results
10 saves/day free (with AI features)
How it works
Browser extension or Telegram bot
Main section of the article will be saved
Find anything by content, not just title
What you get
Full-text search
Search through everything you've saved, not just titles and tags.
Save from anywhere
Browser extension for desktop. Telegram bot for mobile. Forward any link to @GetPensiveBot.
Import from Pocket
Upload your Pocket export. We'll preserve your articles and tags.
Premium: Higher limits
Save up to 100 bookmarks/day. Telegram bot integration. Priority support.
$5/month • 100 saves/day
⚠️ This is beta software
I'm actively developing Pensive. While I work to keep your data safe, there's a possibility of data loss during updates. Back up your important bookmarks regularly.
Why I built this
Years ago, I discovered Gordon Bell and MyLifeBits research project. It was an experiment to document and make searchable everything in a person's life. The idea stuck with me: is it possible to preserve everything I see and hear, and make it searchable?
As someone who loves reading articles (especially on Hacker News) and enjoys sharing links, I kept losing the good stuff. That mechanical watch article? Buried under SEO spam. The personal web is drowning in corporate content farms.
I tried everything. Pocket was one of them and I really liked it, at least until Mozilla turned it into another ad platform and finally shut it down. There are other options, but I at this point I wanted my own solution. So I built Pensive.
No growth hacking. No daily recommendations you'll never read. Just a quiet tool that remembers what you found valuable. You can read more about the creation of Pensive in this blog post. Let me know what you think.
Pricing
Free
- • 10 saves per day
- • Full-text search
- • Browser extension
- • AI summaries & tags
- • Markdown extraction
Premium - $5/month
- • 100 saves per day
- • Telegram bot integration
- • All free features
- • Priority support