Someday gathers the articles, PDFs, screenshots, newsletters and bookmarks you already chose. Read them in a calm, focused reader—or turn them into natural audio for the walk, commute or hour before bed.
The quiet return of personal softwareDense Discovery · 8 min
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How to build a life around attentionSaved article · 12 min
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The value of repairLongform · 18 min
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YOUR READING, IN MOTION
Everything you meant to read, finally heard.
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The shape of a good dayEmergence Magazine · 24 min
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Choose how to spend the next few minutes.
4 Brief18 Listen22 Read
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The future of useful things
Saved article · 16 min
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Why we keep notes11 min · On device
Someday is not another feed asking for attention.
It is one quiet place for the reading you already decided matters.
One library. Two ways back in.
Read when you can. Listen when you can’t.
Someday does not reduce every article to audio. It keeps the original reading experience intact and makes listening a second, equally considered way through.
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THE MARGINALIAN
How we learn to pay attention
Maria Popova · 14 min read
Attention is less a resource to spend than a relationship we keep renewing with the world.
What we notice becomes the texture of a life.
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A reader that respects the text.
Clean typography, restored progress, headings, lists, quotes and code—plus type controls and optional focus sounds when you want to stay with a piece.
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The long way back to focus
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Audio made on your iPhone.
Someday prepares natural narration locally, shows honest extraction and recording progress, then keeps the finished audio ready for offline listening.
Bring your own reading
It should fit the way things actually reach you.
Share from the browser, paste a link, choose a PDF, recognise text from screenshots, or connect the places where reading already accumulates.
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CORE
Articles & web links
Share from Safari or paste a URL. Someday extracts the useful article—not the menus, ads and page furniture.
Share sheet · Paste URL
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FILES
PDF documents
Choose a local text PDF, keep it in your library and move between reading and listening.
Files app · Local storage
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ON DEVICE
Screenshots
Select up to 20 images. Apple Vision recognises the text on your iPhone and combines it into a readable item.
Photos · Private OCR
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READ ONLY
Gmail newsletters
Choose the senders you care about and import recent newsletter messages as ordinary reading—without turning Someday into another inbox.
Dense Discovery ✓The Browser ✓Works in Progress ✓
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READ ONLY
Raindrop.io bookmarks
Bring in recent saved articles selectively. Existing URLs are deduplicated instead of creating another messy archive.
Recent bookmarks · Selective import
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YOUR LIBRARY
Everything lands together
Newsletters, saved articles and recognised screenshots join the same Read library and the same path to audio.
No source silos
Newsletter sendersRead-only access
Search newsletters
DDDense Discoverydesign, tech & culture✓
TBThe Browserwriting worth reading✓
WIPWorks in Progressideas that improve the world✓
Newsletters, without another inbox
Choose the voices. Leave the email machinery behind.
Connect Gmail with read-only access, select the newsletter senders you want, and bring recent messages into the same calm library as every other article. Read them now. Listen later. Disconnect whenever you like.
Sender-by-sender control
Recent messages, not a full mailbox migration
Imported as normal articles—not a separate “show”
More than text-to-speech
Choose the shape that fits the time you have.
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ABOUT FOUR MINUTES
The Brief
A short spoken digest drawn from recent saves when you want the shape of what matters before choosing where to go deeper.
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TWO HOSTS · ONE ARTICLE
Conversation
Turn one substantial piece into a 15–25 minute exchange that works through the argument instead of merely summarising it.
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Night
Gentler listening for the end of the day, with sleep-friendly stories and a player designed to recede instead of demand.
Bring your own Gemini key for generated formats. Standard article and PDF reading, extraction and local narration remain useful without one.
Local-first by design
Your reading does not need to become somebody else’s dataset.
Source text, reading progress, narration and generated audio live on your iPhone. Someday does not require a Someday account or a Someday-hosted reading-data server.
Yes. Importing, focused reading, local cleanup and standard on-device article or PDF narration work without Gemini. A key is needed for generated formats such as Brief and Conversation.
Does Gmail mean Someday can read my entire inbox?+
The integration is read-only and designed around newsletter senders you select. Someday imports recent messages from those sources as reading items; it is not an email client or mailbox migration.
Can I read the original instead of listening?+
Yes. Read is a first-class part of Someday, with an article-focused unread/read library, reading progress, typography controls and a focused reader.
Is finished audio available offline?+
Yes. Once created, audio is stored on your iPhone for offline playback.