How it works
You've read hundreds of books. Highlighted and scribbled around hundreds of passages. Where are they now?
Surfc turns a lifetime of reading into something you can actually think with.
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A commonplace book, reborn as a living index — searchable, connected, and yours.
An offline-first reading companion for people who read to think.
01 · The idea
Surfc is an offline-first reading companion. Scan passages and reflections, tag them to canonical or custom ideas, and resurface them when those themes recur.
Mark up the passage first. Capture will ignore unmarked text.
02 · Core feature
Surfc transcribes your highlights and annotations from a photo of the page — no typing, no re-reading.
Surfc transcribes highlighted or annotated text from a page photo.
Upload full notebook spreads and keep context-rich handwriting intact.
03 · Core feature
Tag notes to the 102 built-in ideas — or create your own. AI tag suggestions propose themes so your reading compounds across sources.
Amber chips are canonical. Green chips are your own.
04 · Plus
Capture by photo or jot insights directly. Every note keeps its page and book attribution.
Notes live locally first and sync to the cloud when online. Outbox sync keeps devices aligned.
Everything works without a connection. End-to-end encryption at rest with AES-256-GCM.
From the beta
I thought I remembered what I read. Turns out I remembered the feeling. Surfc keeps the actual ideas.
The photo-to-text pipeline is the first one I've trusted with handwriting. It caught a marginal note I'd forgotten I wrote four years ago.
Common questions
Take the next step
Surfc is rolling out through a waitlist. Access is approval-based — we're onboarding readers gradually.