Spaces persist your project for weeks
Create a Space per project. Tabs, scroll positions, splits, annotations all restored when you come back. Pick up where you left off, not where the session crashed.
Persistent browsing contexts.FOR RESEARCHERS
A browser that respects your research.
Long-running projects across dozens of papers, threads, and sources. Step keeps the shape of your exploration intact across days.
What gets in the way
- Closing the browser loses days of context: scroll positions, the page you read three times, the trail of how you got somewhere.
- Browser history is a flat list of URLs. It doesn't tell you why those pages belonged together.
- Annotation extensions live in a third party's database. Your highlights are not yours.
- Cmd+F searches one page. You can't find a phrase you read last week.
- Tab management becomes its own chore that takes time away from the actual research.
How Step helps
Step Trail records your exploration as a graph
Every page you visit, every branch you take, every fork in your reasoning is recorded. Drop named checkpoints. Jump back days later and see the actual path you took.
Your exploration, as a graph.Marginalia gives you native, owned annotations
Highlight passages and add notes directly in the browser. Five colors. No extension. No third party. Searchable as data, exportable to JSON or Markdown.
Native annotations, no extension.Graph Find searches every page in the project
Cmd+F searches your full Space at once: visited pages, annotations, snippets. Find a phrase you read last week with its page and trail branch.
Search across your entire Space.A typical workflow
- Create a research Space when you start a new question.
- Open the first paper. Branches form as you follow citations and tangents.
- Highlight key claims with Marginalia, color-coded by your own system.
- Drop a checkpoint when you reach a decision ("this is the strongest evidence so far").
- Close the browser at the end of the day. Step state-flushes to disk.
- Reopen tomorrow. Everything is exactly where you left it.
- Use Graph Find when you need to retrieve a specific phrase across the whole Space.