A Space per piece you're writing
Create a Space when you start a new piece. Sources, references, draft links, all stay in that Space until you publish or shelve the piece. Reopen weeks later to revise.
Persistent browsing contexts.FOR WRITERS
A browser that holds your sources.
Research, sources, references, drafts. Every piece you're writing has its own Space, persistent across the days you take to write it.
What gets in the way
- You research for days, then close the browser, and the source set disappears.
- You remember a quote from an article you read three weeks ago. You can't find it.
- Browser bookmarks are too coarse, they keep URLs but not the context of why you saved them.
- Switching between writing pieces mixes the research for unrelated articles.
- Highlighter extensions store your annotations in someone else's cloud.
How Step helps
Marginalia to capture quotes and notes
Highlight passages on source articles. Add a note explaining why this quote matters. The annotation lives with the page in your Space, exportable to your draft.
Native annotations, no extension.Step Trail records your research path
See how you arrived at each source. Useful for footnotes, for showing your work, for picking up a piece you abandoned three months ago.
Your exploration, as a graph.Graph Find for that one quote you remember
Cmd+F across every source you've visited for the piece. Find the quote without rereading every article.
Search across your entire Space.A typical workflow
- Create a Space when you start a new piece.
- Open sources as you research. Highlight key quotes with Marginalia, color-coded (yellow = quote to use, blue = context, green = counterpoint).
- Drop a checkpoint when you finish reading and start drafting.
- Close the browser. Open your writing tool to draft.
- Reopen Step's Space when you need to verify a citation or find a quote.
- Use Graph Find to retrieve specific phrases across all your sources for the piece.
- Export annotations to your draft as needed.