Bookmarklet
shippedOne click from any page in any browser. Opens a small window, offers a note, closes itself.
Every feature, honestly marked
Shipped means running and covered by tests. Building means specified and in progress. Coming means designed and not started. Nothing on this page is described as working when it is not.
Capture, read, triage, compose, draft, publish, measure — plus the surfaces the whole thing is reachable from.
42 features listed · 34 shipped and covered by tests
Eight ways in, one inbox. Every path deduplicates against everything already there.
One click from any page in any browser. Opens a small window, offers a note, closes itself.
Post a link in a designated Chirp channel and it is captured, with the sentence you wrote around it kept as the note.
Claude, or any MCP client, can capture links on your behalf — with the reason attached.
Follow an RSS or Atom feed and new entries arrive as suggestions, in their own lane, never entering the inbox until you say so.
A named, revocable key for Shortcuts, Raycast, Alfred or curl. It can only capture.
Tracking parameters stripped per host, shorteners followed, near-duplicates offered as a suggested merge and never merged automatically.
Will share from Safari, X, your feed reader or Mail, and will work offline and sync when the network returns.
A private address of your own. Every link in what you forward will be captured, with the text above the first link kept as the note.
A keyboard shortcut and a right-click menu, for people who would rather not use a bookmarklet.
Every link arrives legible, and the save never waits on the fetch.
Title, author, publication, date, standfirst, hero image, language and reading time, pulled in the background.
The article's text, stripped of navigation and subscribe-nags, so you can judge something without leaving Curio.
X, YouTube, Vimeo, Bluesky and Mastodon are read through their own metadata rather than scraped, because their pages are shells.
When a page cannot be read, the item survives with its URL, your note, and a plain explanation of what happened.
A hundred items without touching the mouse.
j and k to move, 1–9 to file into a publication, x to drop, u to undo, o to open. Shortcuts never fire while you are typing a note.
Every destructive action comes back with u, including a drop and a merge.
One sentence on why you kept something is worth more than the article's own marketing copy, so Curio shows it first and never overwrites it.
The same link can go to two publications and read completely differently in each.
Titles, standfirsts, your notes, URLs and tags — sent issues included, so “have I used this before?” has an answer.
Lightweight automatic tagging on capture, editable and never binding.
Several newsletters, each with its own voice.
Each is one newsletter: its own sections, schedule, template, voice and mailing list. Pause one without touching capture.
Named buckets you define, with optional guidance the writing follows and an optional cap so one section cannot swallow an issue.
Everything filed since the last issue, ordered by section, with a draft blurb waiting on each. Assembling twice never produces two issues; an empty week produces none.
Reorder, edit any blurb, write the intro, drop something back to the queue for next week. The Saturday morning screen works at 360 pixels.
The draft will be waiting when you wake up, built the night before the send window.
A first pass in your voice, never the last word. This is the one place Curio spends the strongest model available.
Your capture note carries more weight in the prompt than the article does.
Describe your tone in your own words and give examples of blurbs you consider correct. Versioned, so changing it never rewrites what is already drafted.
“Shorter.” “Less arch.” “Lead with the number.” A draft you have edited is never overwritten by a later one.
Every blurb is marked drafted, drafted-then-edited, or written by you. The proportion is visible because it is the only honest measure of whether the drafting is earning its keep.
Token spend per issue, on the issue. A newsletter that costs more to draft than it earns in attention should be legible as such.
Professional, conversational, dry, analytical, warm — ready to use and editable, so the first issue does not begin with an empty box.
Drafts written only from the piece itself. When there is not enough to say anything true, Curio says so and leaves the blurb to you rather than inventing something confident.
Deliberate, and impossible to send twice.
Choose from the Herald mailing lists you own. A list you do not own cannot appear, because Herald decides that, not Curio.
Rendered by the same engine the send uses, so what you approve is exactly what arrives.
Editable per publication and versioned, so an archived issue always shows what actually went out. Ships with a classic layout and a stripped-back one.
Unlimited test sends that move none of your numbers, so proving a template renders costs nothing.
The dialog says where it is going, and the send is refused if the list changed while you were reading.
Either way it is a decision you make. Curio assembles automatically; it never sends automatically.
Additional shipped templates — digest, magazine, and a link-only edition — as starting points rather than a blank file.
Which of the six things you sent did people actually open?
Every issue kept as sent: its items, its blurbs, the template version it used. Searchable alongside everything you have ever saved.
Pulled back from Herald automatically, more often just after a send and rarely once the numbers settle.
Capturing something you have published before tells you so, with the issue and the date.
Which of the six things you sent people actually opened — ranked, per issue, and carried back to the item so next week's triage knows.
The full product: dashboard, triage, reader, publications, issue review, archive, settings. Light and dark, down to 360 pixels.
The bookmarklet and the capture page work in any browser, on any machine, signed in or not yet.
Native, with a share extension that will make saving effortless, plus triage and full issue review — the Saturday morning pass, on a phone.
Curio exposes its whole workflow over the Model Context Protocol: capture, triage, publications, feeds, issue assembly, blurb drafting and preview. There is no tool that sends, schedules or test-sends, and a test enforces that as the surface grows.
Curio does the half of a newsletter that is not sending: capturing, triaging, drafting, assembling, reviewing. Herald owns the subscribers, the opt-in, and the send.
Curio is in active development at Renkara. Nothing here is for sale yet and there is no list to join — write to contact@renkara.com if you want to hear when it opens.
Claude and the Model Context Protocol are trademarks of Anthropic, PBC. Apple, iPhone, iPad, iOS, iPadOS, Safari, Shortcuts, and Mail are trademarks of Apple Inc. X is a trademark of X Corp. Raycast is a trademark of Raycast Technologies Inc. Alfred is a trademark of Running with Crayons Ltd. YouTube is a trademark of Google LLC. Vimeo is a trademark of Vimeo, Inc. Bluesky is a trademark of Bluesky Social, PBC. Mastodon is a trademark of Mastodon gGmbH. Curio is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by any of them.