Workflows
Memory for the work you actually do.
Research rarely stays in one format. An idea might begin as a screenshot. Lead to an article. Become a note. Turn into a project. Then matter again six months later. Shelf keeps the trail.
The work changes. The memory stays connected.
One memory, seven kinds of work
The same thing you kept, later in the year.
- Reference
A screenshot of a quiet interface
- Research
Three more like it, and a report
- Context
The project and week around them
- Idea
“The quiet ones keep winning”
- Decision
Rebuild the navigation this quarter
- Creation
The work that ships
- Rediscovery
Two projects later, it returns
- Branches
The same arc runs through seven different kinds of work.
The work changes. The memory stays connected.
A workflow isn't a feature. It's the shape of a week: things noticed, things kept, a question that forms slowly, and a moment months later when one old capture answers it.
Shelf only holds what you chose to keep. It reads it on your Mac, keeps the context around it, and gives it back when you can only half describe it.
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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.