Manifesto
Every save had a reason: a concept you wanted to understand, a project you meant to start, a place, a recipe, a way of living you were working toward. What happened to those reasons afterwards is why Locus exists.
Nobody saves by accident. Behind every save is something you wanted: a concept to understand better, a project to take on, inspiration for an interest, a resource for the person you are trying to become. Cooking is one corner of it. Kept over years, those saves are an honest record of what you actually care about.
Say it plainly: platforms make money when you keep scrolling. They make nothing when you retrieve, organize, or use what you saved, so they never built the tools for it. Technically you could do it yourself: write the book recommendation down, spend five minutes hunting for the recipe post you half remember, give it a format you can use. You don't, and neither does anyone else, because there is just enough friction to never start.
For years the save button led to a graveyard: tapped, and never seen again. It only starts to mean something when what you saved can be browsed, found, and used. Locus makes the save worth pressing again.
There have only ever been two options: throw everything into one bucket, where a recipe, a workout, and a hotel all look the same, or build a system of buckets yourself and maintain it, which nobody keeps up. Cataloging fixes both. When a save is filed by what it is, you can browse it and know what you are looking at.
Locus files into general areas, recipes and workouts and places among them, and the specific lanes inside each one emerge from what you actually save. An area with a few posts stays broad so it is worth opening; an area that fills up splits into lanes so it stays legible. The structure adapts to your interests instead of asking you to design it. And the filing is visible: labels you can read, in a library you can search, sort, and correct.
Each time you open Locus, the groups in every area are reshuffled and different posts lead. A save from three years ago comes back around next to one from last week. Your library percolates instead of sinking.
A library you own,
not a feed you rent.
The work
Locus syncs the posts you saved, files them so they can be found, and turns them into things you can act on: cook mode, workout mode, saved places on a map, head-to-head rankings. Your saves, given back.