Paste a podcast, essay, interview, video, or article. Yank pulls five lines worth keeping and turns them into cards designed to travel.
Not the most informative lines. The most quotable. The ones that survive outside the source.
Every line carries its own address, so even a screenshot can lead back to the source.
The artifact is the product.
Yank isn't a summarizer. It doesn't try to replace the source. It preserves the parts worth pointing to.
And when five lines don't survive the pull, Yank refuses rather than filling the quota.
The words. Verbatim means the line matches the transcript Yank checked. If we paraphrase, it's labeled distilled.
The moment. Video and audio lines link back to where they appeared in the source.
The context. Open In context to see the passage surrounding the line.
The address. Every line gets its own permanent URL, printed directly on the card.
That makes a Yank more than a quoteshot. A quoteshot is a file. A Yank card is a page.
Search the Yank library by line, source, or subject. Free, no account required, and open to software through the JSON API and MCP server.
The extraction rules, verification system, and reasons Yank sometimes refuses a source are documented in How it works.