Clear Tabs

Declare bankruptcy on the tabs you never got to.

Nineteen open tabs, each one a small obligation. Hand the whole pile to Header. It reads every one and writes you a single newsletter — then shows you exactly what became of every link you sent.

Three piles a day on the free plan, more on Pro. Up to 100 links per pile.

Clear Tabs is built for desktop web or the Chrome extension — pasting a pile of links is fiddly on a phone. Reading a finished newsletter on a phone works fine.

Every link you submitted

19 links · 14 in the newsletter · 1 didn't extract

1 martinfowler.com/articles/microservices in newsletter
2 arxiv.org/abs/2411.00001 in newsletter
3 news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42 not cited
4 blog.example.com/the-one-that-404s didn't extract
How it works

Three steps, then the tabs are gone.

01

Hand over the pile

Paste up to 100 URLs, or let the Chrome extension collect the tabs you already have open. Tell it in a line what you're looking for — that line is what Header reads everything against.

02

Header reads all of it

Every link is fetched and extracted, then read together rather than one at a time — which is the point. The connections between the tabs are the part you'd never have found yourself.

03

One newsletter, then cleanup

You get a single newsletter across the whole pile. The sources Header created to read it are cleaned up afterwards — nothing is left polling, and nothing joins your feed unless you ask it to.

Modes

The same pile, shaped three ways.

A reading list and a research backlog want different things. Pick by what you intend to do with the pile once you've read it.

cluster

Sorted by subject

Groups the pile by what the pieces actually have in common, and names each thread. The default, and the right one when you don't yet know what's in there.

triage

A reading list

Read now, skim, or skip — with the reason. For when the pile is a backlog you're trying to get out of rather than a subject you're studying.

synthesis

A newsletter

Treats the pile as though it were a topic you follow, and writes it up as a single piece. Best when the links genuinely are about one thing.

Accounting

You find out what happened to every link.

A newsletter curates — which means some of what you sent won't appear in it. That is usually correct and occasionally wrong, and you should be the one who decides which.

So every pile comes with a page listing all of it: which links made the newsletter, which were read but not cited, which returned nothing, and which failed outright. Nothing is quietly dropped. If a link you cared about didn't make it, you'll see that rather than wonder.

For agents

It's an API, too.

POST /api/v2/link-bankruptcy takes the same pile and accepts hdr_sk_ API keys, so an agent can clear a backlog on your behalf and read the per-URL accounting back. It's the endpoint the Chrome extension uses.

Read the API docs
Header

The tabs aren't going to read themselves.

Three piles a day on the free plan. No card to try it.