Samizdat turns newsletters and feeds into short, readable highlihts. Annotate them, track what you cite, and publish your own digest with the references already attached.
Newsletters arrive in your inbox. Articles live in browser tabs. You lose your place every time you switch context.
You have no canonical copy. Services shut down. Paywalls move. Your reading history belongs to someone else's database.
Turning what you read into writing means hunting down the original URL, pulling the right quote, formatting a reference. Every. Single. Time.
Every reader app, every newsletter tool has a conflict of interest with you. Their incentive is your continued subscription, not your autonomy.
Point an email alias at your server for newsletters. Add RSS feeds for news portals. Everything lands in one place.
Your editable Pipeline runs over
each Document and emits bite-sized
Highlights — the key facts, quotes,
and ideas, tagged and sorted. Customize to your needs.
The mobile app syncs highlights offline-first. Swipe to curate. Every linked URL is tracked and openable. One tap to mark, annotate, or skip. Read articles, ad-free, watch podcasts transcribed annote time tagged.
Edit, refer, work in your favorite PKM tools: Preserve articles 1:1, refer them, link them, join them, quote them with your favorite IDE for your thoughts.
Run sam digest. Every item you
curated becomes a bullet with the source URL,
quote, and original context already wired. No
copy-paste. Publish to email, the web, or
anywhere.
The hub. REST API, cron worker, scraper engine,
dedup, pipeline runner, TLS — everything in a single
static binary you can scp anywhere.
The reader. Offline-first, swipe-to-curate, syncs with your server. Runs on iOS, Android, and the web from one codebase.
sam is the interface for power users
and robots alike. Init, configure providers, manage
jobs, run pipelines, generate digests: all headless,
all scriptable.
The browser extension. Clip any page, highlight text, and add it to your pipeline on the fly. Posts to the same API as everything else.
Your Markdown vault is the truth.
SQLite is only an index;
sam reindex rebuilds it from your files.
Nothing exists solely in a database.
Scrape one URL once. Dedup by canonical URL happens before any network request.
Paywalled content stays local. Pick your own locally hosted LLM.
One binary. No Docker, no nginx, no
Redis. scp it and run it; TLS is
in-binary via CertMagic.
Samizdat - self-published, hand-curated, traceable writing. Underground, self-rolled.
"There is an inherent conflict of interest between you as the publisher and the for-profit platforms that feed you info. Capitalism's incentive is to lock you in, manipulate your consumption. Make your own feed, that serves you."
No engagement metric. No recommendation engine. No "you might also like." Samizdat does what you configure it to do, and the configuration is a text file you own. The product are markdown files you own.
No accounts, no database setup. Bring your own LLM, or use provider. Ollama & cloud friendly.