Remember what you read

Litr keeps the text of the pages you visit, on your Mac, so you can find a page by what it said, not only by its title, and ask the assistant about things you read.

Finding a page by what it said

Type a few words in the command palette (⌘K). Below tabs, bookmarks and commands come pages you read that say those words, with the words in context, such as “…replacement boat with room for 40 cars will run twice a day…”. Every word must be in the page; the last one can be the start of a word.

Asking about what you read

In the assistant (⌥⌘A), choose Pages I've read and ask, for example "How many cars fit on the replacement ferry?" or "Hva leste jeg om GPUI-layout?". Litr finds the pages that match best and gives excerpts of them to Apple's on-device model, which answers from them and names the page. The pages it used are listed under the answer; click one to open it. You can also choose Assistant → Ask About Pages I've Read… in the View menu.

What's kept, and what isn't

• The readable text of a page (the article, or the visible text), up to 20,000 characters, a couple of seconds after it loads. Litr keeps the 3,000 most recent pages, a few tens of megabytes.
• Not kept: forget tabs, pages with a password field (sign-in pages), local development sites, web apps, and sites you turned it off for.
• It stays on your Mac, in Litr's database, and is never sent anywhere. The assistant runs on your Mac too.

Turning it off

• For one site: View → Settings for This Site… → Remember what you read here: No. That also forgets what Litr kept from the site.
• Everywhere: Settings → Remember what you read: Off. Forget All Page Text deletes what's kept, and shows how many pages that is.
• Clearing history forgets the text too, and deleting a page from history deletes its text.