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Nectar turns what you read, watch and listen to into Scrolls: short ideas you swipe through one at a time, keep and come back to.

What a Scroll is

A Scroll is a source broken into small pieces. It has chapters, each chapter has ideas, and an idea can have examples. An idea is one card: a complete thought that makes sense on its own, short enough to read in a few seconds. Examples sit beside it; swipe sideways to see them.

A Scroll can come from anything with ideas worth keeping: an article or blog post, a talk, a podcast or video, a course, your own notes or a book.

Start here

  • Just reading? Open Discover and pick a Scroll. Public Scrolls open without an account. Reading Scrolls explains the two reading modes and how progress works.
  • Want to keep what you read? Create an account to save progress, earn XP, like ideas and build Collections. See Save, collect and come back.
  • Want to make your own? Create a Scroll walks you from a source to a finished Scroll, with a prompt for an AI assistant.
  • Using an AI client? Connect an AI client lets it read your library and these guides with a personal token.

New to the idea? Why Nectar explains what the feed is for, and how it differs from the feeds you already know.

Why Nectar: scrolling that leaves something behind

Nectar keeps the gesture you already know from social feeds, the swipe, and points it at ideas you chose to learn from.

Reading Scrolls

Open a Scroll, swipe through its ideas one card at a time, and let Nectar keep track of what you have read.

Save, collect and come back

Keep the ideas and Scrolls that matter, group them, and come back to them later.

Create a Scroll

Turn a source you care about into a Scroll: write its ideas with an AI assistant or by hand, check them, and import the file.

Scroll file reference

A Scroll file is one JSON object: the Scroll's details, its chapters of ideas, and optional translations. This page describes every object and field the importer reads.

Edit, replace and share

Change a Scroll's details, replace its ideas with a new file, and choose who can read it.

Connect an AI client

Let an AI client, such as a chat assistant or a coding tool, read your Nectar library and these guides with a personal token.

Account and settings

An account keeps your reading progress and lets you save, create and share. You control your profile, language and data.

Troubleshooting

Find the problem you see below, and what to check.