STEP TRAIL
Your exploration, as a graph.
Step Trail records how you got to each page and where you branched. It's a visual map of your thinking, not a flat history list.
Browser history is a flat chronological list of URLs. It tells you what you visited but nothing about how you got there or why those pages belonged together. Trail records the structure of your exploration: which page led to which, where you opened a link in a new tab, where you branched, where you came back. The shape of your reasoning becomes navigable.
Every page visit creates a node. Every navigation creates an edge. Opening a link in a new tab creates a branch. Going back and clicking elsewhere creates a fork. The graph is rendered with dagre (a directed acyclic graph layout library) inside Step. Drop a checkpoint to give a node a name ("before legal review"). Jump back to any node and reopen it with the surrounding tabs intact.
Trail shines for any work that involves following a question across many pages: research, debugging, comparison shopping, learning a new topic. After a long session, the graph shows you the actual path you took, including dead ends. Days later, you can pick up exactly where your thinking diverged.
Where it shows up
- Trace how you arrived at a specific decision three days ago.
- Drop a named checkpoint before going down a side path.
- Compare two parallel reasoning branches at a glance.
- Reopen a forgotten Stack Overflow thread by jumping to its node.
- Show a colleague the actual path of your research, not just the conclusion.
Frequently asked
Is Trail per-Space or global?
How far back does Trail remember?
Can I export the Trail?
Does Trail include private windows?
Related features
Search across your entire Space.
Cmd+F now searches every page you've visited in a Space, every annotation, every trail node. Powered by a local SQLite full-text index.
Persistent browsing contexts.
Each Space is a self-contained world. Tabs, groups, splits, scroll positions, annotations, everything restored when you come back.