A calm place to read later.
Lectern keeps the articles you mean to read, shows them without the clutter, and remembers what you thought of them.
Save from anywhere
Paste a link, click the browser extension, or ask your AI assistant to keep it for later.
Read without the clutter
Clean, quiet pages in a type made for reading, and your place kept to the paragraph.
Highlight and take notes
Mark what matters, write what you think, and take it all with you as Markdown.
Find anything again
Search every word you saved, and every highlight and note you made.
Talk to your library
Connect Claude or ChatGPT to search, summarize and highlight what you've saved.
Yours to keep
Take your highlights with you as Markdown, build on the open API, or move to your own server.
Prefer your own server?
Lectern is open source under the MIT license. The same app runs on yours, with your library on your own disk, and everything here works there too, including Claude and ChatGPT.
Self-hosting guide