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 briefing — 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.

Every link you submitted

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

1 martinfowler.com/articles/microservices in briefing
2 arxiv.org/abs/2411.00001 in briefing
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 briefing, then cleanup

You get a single briefing 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 four 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

Find the threads

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 verdict per link

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

One continuous briefing

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.

custom

Your own sections

Name the sections you want and say what belongs in each. Up to five, in whatever order you like.

Accounting

You find out what happened to every link.

A briefing 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 briefing, 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.