Position in a list says newer. Physical exposure says active. The 3–4 threads you are actually living in lie fully open on the desk; everything else compresses to an edge. You never scan — you glance.

Each exposed card quotes its latest verbatim capture in serif — the actual record surfaces on Home, not a paraphrase. The AI gist sits above it in periwinkle, clearly derived, never confusable with the record.

30 threads = 4 exposed + a 26-spine pile a few hundred pixels tall. Spines overlap tighter and sit darker as they age, so the pile compresses instead of scrolling forever. The list never becomes a haystack.

Tap a spine and it pulls out of the pile, slides up, and unfolds at the top of the deck — one FLIP motion, 360ms. The last exposed card folds down into the pile to make room. Recency you can watch happen.

Swipe-right-to-record exists only on expanded cards (and the Daily pad). A spine must be promoted — read — before you can speak into it. Structural safety: you cannot record into something you cannot see.

Hover or drag across the pile and the spine under your pointer breathes open to a mid state — its meta line appears, neighbors ease aside. Skimming the pile feels like thumbing the edges of index cards. The Daily desk pad above stays put: it is a place, not a card, and its amber edge only exists while unfiled captures do.