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After what feels like years of waiting, I finally received an invitation to Lazy.so in my inbox. I was very curious because their product videos always looked very compelling to me.
Lazy’s most unique selling point to me is that its Mac app is able to capture from almost any app that you see on your screen. And while doing so, it manages in many cases to keep the context. That is, for example, if you capture something from an email in Apple Mail, you’ll get not only a backlink to that very message inside Apple Mail, but also Lazy tries to find out who has written this email and adds it as a person to your people database automatically..
The other thing I really liked about Lazy is how it is able to capture almost anything you see on your browser, be it behind a paywall or not, and extract it as a nicely formatted article into your Lazy database. What is really great is the experience of adding highlights to any web article you look at. It will extract these highlights as a highlights block above your article view and it will keep adding new highlights you do either on the web or inside the article view to that block. So you have everything nice in context, the highlights and the original full source.
I am impressed with Lazy. It follows an approach I haven’t seen anywhere else, trying to capture from as many sources as possible and keeping as much context as it an find. It’s an awesome product and I’m happy I was able to try it.
However, I came to the conclusion that it sits between too many other tools I already use and wouldn’t want to give up.
The thought of adding Lazy as an additional tool to my stack, sitting between established workflows, makes me anxious.
Because then, every time I save something, I have an other option I need to consider and think about. And whenever I search for something, there’s yet another bucket it could be in. This idea drives me crazy.
