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Understand your world and your work.

Siftable connects the notes, decisions, tasks, people, history, and evidence that shape your world and your work. It gives you and your agents the context to understand what is true, see what has changed, and decide what needs to happen next. When your understanding changes, the context can change with it.

Thomas Main, founder of Siftable
Thomas Main, founder
How it works

Context you can use without getting trapped by it.

Siftable keeps context connected, bounded, and revisable. You can retrieve what matters without letting an old version of your thinking become a permanent constraint.

Origin

Siftable began as ExecuFunction, an attempt to understand the barriers I encountered with ADHD when planning, prioritizing, remembering, and following through.

I initially assumed the answer might be a better system. Many of the tools I tried instead gave me one more system to maintain, and that maintenance soon became part of the problem.

The deeper problem was context: where it lived, how I could find it, when it was useful, and whether it remained connected as the work changed. My notes were scattered and disconnected. Useful ideas existed, but not where or when I needed them.

As I began using multiple agents to build Siftable, the same problem became harder to ignore. Every new conversation required another explanation. I had no consistent way to organize the agents or keep their work connected.

Siftable grew from the need to keep an understanding of your world and your work connected and accessible without fixing it in place. Context should change when reality does.

Philosophy

Design principles

Six beliefs guide the product.

01

Capture should be effortless

If adding a task takes more effort than doing the task, the system has already failed. Siftable lets you capture context naturally, then helps organize it afterward.

02

Context needs boundaries

AI is only useful when it knows what context it is allowed to use. Personal facts, workspace context, project details, and shared information should stay scoped unless the user chooses otherwise.

03

Surface less, better

The goal is not to show more information. The goal is to reduce the attention burden. Siftable should surface the few things that actually deserve your focus.

04

Every signal explains itself

A recommendation is not enough. The system should show why something surfaced, what evidence it used, and what action you can take next.

05

Plans must respect reality

A good plan accounts for calendar constraints, available time, energy, context switching, and the fact that real days do not behave like ideal task lists.

06

Memory should be selective

The system should remember what helps, ignore what does not, and let users inspect, edit, hide, or remove durable context. Memory is useful only when it is relevant.

The name

Why "Siftable"?

Search helps when you know what you need. Sifting helps when you do not.

Modern work creates more context than anyone can hold at once. The hard part is knowing what matters now. Siftable is named for that work: bringing forward the priority, risk, follow-up, conflict, or next action that would otherwise stay buried.

Building in public

What we are still refining.

Siftable is evolving quickly. We are building in public because the product only gets better when real users can challenge the assumptions behind it.

AI autonomy

How much should the system do on its own? A useful assistant should be proactive, but not presumptuous. We are designing around clear confirmation, undo, and user-controlled levels of autonomy.

Context boundaries

Siftable works with sensitive context: personal notes, work projects, relationships, schedules, and memory. The product has to make those boundaries visible and enforceable — not blur them for convenience.

Signal quality

The central question is not whether AI can summarize more information. It is whether it can surface the right thing at the right time, with clear evidence and a useful next action.

Selective memory

Durable memory is powerful, but only when it is relevant. We are building memory that can be inspected, edited, scoped, hidden, and forgotten — not memory that quietly follows you everywhere.

Accessibility

Siftable started from executive-function friction: too many threads, too many tools, too much context to hold manually. The goal is to make the product useful without requiring users to become expert system managers.

Help shape what Siftable becomes.

Tell us where your work loses context, what you wish your tools remembered, or what still feels harder than it should.

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