Who Shelf is for
One memory. Many kinds of work.
Shelf doesn't change per profession. What changes is what you keep, and what you need back later.
A designer keeps references. A researcher keeps evidence. A founder keeps reasons. The same memory holds all of it, on your Mac.
What every page has in common.
You keep something without filing it. Shelf reads it on your Mac, the text inside a screenshot, what an image looks like, what a document is about, and keeps the context around it.
Later you describe what you half-remember, and it comes back with the reason it matched. That's the whole product. The pages above are just twelve honest versions of the same story.
Next thought
Saving is easy. Remembering is the part software keeps getting wrong.
Why saving isn't rememberingKeep exploring
Shelf V3 is out now
Shelf V3 is the current build. Shelf does not use automatic updates, so download the latest build here and install it over your current version.
This is intentional. Shelf is built around a local-first, privacy-focused philosophy. An automatic updater requires additional background processes, network connections, update infrastructure, and another system with permission to modify the app. We prefer to keep Shelf’s network footprint and background activity as small as possible.
Manual updates keep the process explicit: Shelf only checks the internet when a feature actually needs it, and you decide when a new version is downloaded and installed.