Yarnboard — Never lose a useful idea again

Yarnboard is a personal knowledge tool for saving thoughts, screenshots, links, and files into one searchable memory you can actually reuse. Everything you save is tagged, full-text searchable, and connected to everything else you have saved on the same subject.

How it works

• 1. Save anything. A screenshot, a quote, a meme, an argument you spent 20 minutes writing. Paste it in.
• 2. Tag it. Add a few tags, or let AI suggest them. No tag, no entry — so nothing gets lost in the void.
• 3. Find it instantly. Search by a few letters, by tag, or by the text inside a screenshot. It is all searchable.
• 4. See the threads. Shared tags string your notes together. Discovery pulls the yarn between ideas you never thought to connect — that is the board this app is named after.
• 5. Reuse it. Click to copy. Paste into a conversation, a document, or a post.

What Yarnboard solves

I have thousands of screenshots and cannot find anything.

Yarnboard runs OCR over your images, so you can search by what a screenshot says rather than what the file was named.

I wrote the perfect response once and now I cannot find it.

Save it, tag it, search it. The next time the topic comes up, one click puts it in your clipboard.

My ideas are in five different apps and none of them talk to each other.

Yarnboard keeps text, images, links, and files in one place, all tagged, all searchable, all connected.

I know these ideas are related but I cannot see how.

Discovery surfaces notes you saved months apart that share rare tags — connections you did not know you had.

I keep rewriting the same prompts and templates from scratch.

Save your best prompts, email templates, and canned responses, then search, click, and paste.

I saved a video somewhere and cannot find it again.

Save the YouTube link as a note and press Summarize. Every major point the video made is written into the note as text you can search and edit, so the video is findable by what it said rather than by its title.

What is inside

• Your external brain Store every screenshot, article, and thought. OCR reads text from images so nothing is lost.
• Discover connections See which of your ideas are secretly related. Rare shared tags surface surprising links.
• Instant recall Search with a few letters and find anything you have saved.
• Smart organization AI-assisted tagging keeps everything organized without much thinking.
• Video summaries Save a YouTube link and press one button. The video’s major points become note text you can search, edit, and reuse.
• Dynamic documents Combine scattered notes into finished documents — split, merge, and reorder them freely.
• Visual storyboards Arrange notes like a detective’s evidence board and sequence them into a narrative.
• Script to storyboard Turn a script into a visual storyboard for production planning.

Who it is for

• Content creators YouTubers, filmmakers, and documentarians tracking sources and building narratives.
• Journalists Investigative reporters managing sources across several rabbit holes at once.
• Writers and authors Building worlds, tracking characters, and keeping every good line.
• Researchers Academics and students managing citations and research material.

Guides

• How do you search for text inside a screenshot?
• How do you find connections between notes you have already written?
• How do you organize research notes for a novel?
• How do you turn scattered notes into a first draft?

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