Seymour

Read me. See more.

A read-it-later app for people whose queue got away from them. Save an article from anywhere and Seymour fetches it, strips it down to the words, and reads it aloud in a real voice while you drive. Reaching the end archives it, so the list gets shorter by being used.

The Seymour reader: a cleaned-up article with a listen control, beside a sidebar of queue, favorites, highlights and archive
Surfaces
Web, iPhone, Chrome extension
Listening
Read aloud in a real voice
Finishing
Archives itself
Status
Invite only

What it does

A queue that empties

  • Save from anywhere. Paste a URL, use the Chrome extension, or hit the share sheet on your phone. Whatever you were reading in, it lands here as one clean page.
  • Listen anywhere, same position. Start listening at the desk and finish in the car. The place you stopped on one is the place it resumes on the other.
  • Today’s Listen. About 35 minutes picked out of your own queue, so the drive you already make is spent on things you already wanted to read.
  • Highlights that leave. Mark a passage, then export the whole set as Markdown into whatever you keep notes in. Nothing is trapped in here.
  • Feeds and tags. Subscribe to the handful of sites you read constantly, tag what you save, and a queue of a hundred-plus items is still something you can steer.
  • The Feeding Log. Every stretch you listened to, grouped by day, each one linking back to the exact spot.

Why it exists

The pile that shames you

Every read-it-later app has the same failure mode. You save things faster than you read them, the number goes up, and one day the number is the only thing you notice. The app stops being a tool and becomes a small daily reminder that you are behind.

Seymour is built around finishing instead of saving. Listening is a first-class way through an article, because listening is what turns a commute into progress. And finishing does the filing for you: the item archives itself, and the queue is shorter without anyone deciding to declare bankruptcy.

The name is the joke and the instruction. Audrey, in the shop, wants to be fed. Read me. See more.

Status, honestly: Seymour is built and in daily use by one household. There is no public sign-up yet.

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