SnapStash Discover: Find What Is Worth Reading Next

Search is useful when you know what to ask. Discover helps when you do not yet know what is worth reading next.

The problem with only searching

Saving things is easy. Using them later depends on you remembering what to search for. When you are deep in a topic, the next useful article is usually something you have never seen, so there is nothing to type into a search box yet. Most tools wait for that query. Discover does not. (It is the inbound half of a bigger idea, that information overload is a retrieval problem, not only a volume problem.)

What Discover does

Discover is the part of SnapStash that brings new reading material to you. It looks at two kinds of signals you already created:

• The topics you picked. During onboarding, or later in settings, you choose the interests you want SnapStash to watch.
• What you actually save. The tags on your screenshots, links, and PDFs, and the words that keep showing up with them, show the angle you care about, not just the broad topic.

From those signals SnapStash runs a web search, picks the strongest result, and reads it the same way it reads a link you save yourself. Links you have already saved are skipped, so a find should be new to you.

Discover builds its searches from your interest topics and the tags on your saves. Your saved content and images are not sent to the web-search provider; the privacy policy lists what each provider receives.

What a find looks like

Each find arrives as a card you can judge quickly:

• a short summary and the key points,
• a one-line reason it matched your interests,
• the source link, so you can open the original.

You can save it, which adds it to your stash like any other link, or discard it. Nothing enters your stash until you choose to keep it.

It learns from what you save and discard

Every save and discard changes what comes next. Topics you keep saving get more weight; topics you keep discarding come up less. SnapStash also rotates between your interests on purpose, so one busy tag does not crowd out everything else.

Free and Premium

• Free: a weekly Discover preview.
• Premium: a daily personalized find, delivered at the time you set.

When it helps most

Discover is most useful when you are building up a topic over weeks: a thesis or literature review (see the screenshot workflow for researchers), a design reference library, competitive research, or a new field you are learning. Search answers the questions you already have. Discover suggests the next thing worth reading before you think to ask.

FAQ

What is SnapStash Discover?

Discover is a SnapStash feature that uses the interests you picked and the patterns in what you save to find new web articles worth reading, with a summary and a reason for each one.

How is Discover different from search?

Search starts with a question you type. Discover starts from signals you already created, such as your topics, saves, tags, and feedback, and brings material forward without a query.

Who is Discover for?

It is useful for students, researchers, designers, builders, and anyone who saves references and wants relevant new material to surface without starting from a blank search box.

Does Discover add things to my stash automatically?

No. A find stays separate until you save it. Discarded finds never enter your stash.