Pull a thread. See where it goes.
A calm feed of knowledge cards where you are the algorithm. Nothing advances on its own and no hidden ranking decides what you see. Every card shows threads you can pull to choose where you go next, and every session ends with a map of where you went.
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Art movement · Paris, 1870s
Impressionism
Try it. You steer
Pull a thread, and the feed follows you
Here is a small rabbit hole you can wander. Pull a thread and see where it leads. Nothing moves until you do.
Woodblock print · Hokusai, c. 1831
The Great Wave off Kanagawa
A towering wave curls over three boats while Mount Fuji sits small and calm in the distance.
Pull a thread
Tap a thread above to move on.
Every session has a shape
A beginning, a middle, and an end you can keep
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Start
Begin with a topic seed, pick a realm, or let curiosity surprise you. A session starts somewhere you chose.
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Steer
Pull the visible threads to choose your own direction. Every card says why it appeared: the thread you pulled, or “drifting” when you did not choose.
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Arrive
When you stop, the session is drawn as a trail map you can save and share, or export as an image.
The trail map
Where you went
There are no streaks or counters to keep up. When you stop, you get a map of the session: the stops you made and the threads that took you there.
The Great Wave off Kanagawa
Started here
Ukiyo-e
Impressionism
Claude Monet
Paris Street; Rainy Day
You are here
Titles from Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0excerpted · mapped with Drift
What is missing, on purpose
Built to be put down
Transparency over opacity
You always see why a card appeared. Nothing is ranked behind the scenes.
Agency over autoplay
Nothing advances on its own. Every card waits for you to choose, and the feed ends instead of going on forever.
Sessions have shape
A beginning, a middle, and an end. The trail map comes when you stop.
Gentle awareness, not guilt
A count of your stops in the corner, and one gentle note after a while. No streaks, no badges, no notifications.
Where the cards come from
Two realms, one reading room
Everything comes from collections curated by people, never scraped. Drift reshapes what is there; it does not write it.
Encyclopedia
All of Wikipedia, as full-screen cards. Each thread is labelled, so you know where it goes before you pull it: deeper, wider, or off at a tangent.
Gallery
Public-domain art from The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Follow a thread to more by an artist, a subject, or a place.
Ready to wander?
Create a free account to start drifting. Your trails, interests, and reactions stay private to your account and follow you across devices.
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