GleanaryAutomations
The housekeeping you’d never get around to, on a schedule or whenever you ask.
Open Automations in the sidebar to turn each one on, set how often it runs, and see what past runs did. Each automation has fixed limits on what it may change. Gleanary enforces those limits itself, not the model.
Built-in automations
Section titled “Built-in automations”| Automation | What it does | What it may change |
|---|---|---|
| Summary backfill | Summarizes saved items that have their full text but no summary yet. | Writes summaries. You can undo a run. |
| Bookmark fetcher | Fetches the pages of imported bookmarks that were never opened, a few at a time, newest first. | Fetches pages into their bookmarks. You can undo a run. |
| Link checker | Checks that saved links still work. Proposes updating ones that moved and archiving ones that stay gone. | Proposals only. You review first. |
| Cross-linker | Looks for related items among those with no links yet, and proposes links with a reason. | Proposals only. You review first. |
| Unfiled filer | Suggests a home for items that aren’t filed anywhere. | Proposals only. You review first. |
| Failed-capture retry | Tries failed captures again when the problem looked temporary: after an hour, a day, then a week. | Retries captures, never ones that need you to sign in or choose. |
| Weekly digest | Writes a note about what you saved in the last week, with a link to each item. | Writes a new note and never edits others. You can undo it. |
| Source explorer | When Source acquisition is set to Explore, follows the most promising links in your sources, up to three hops out. | Saves sources without summaries. Unopened ones are archived in 30 days. |
Reviewing proposals
Section titled “Reviewing proposals”Automations that propose changes list them under To review. Choose Review N… to check them. Nothing changes in your library until you apply them. See Review changes.
To reverse a run, choose Undo next to it in the run history.
Limits
Section titled “Limits”Each automation that uses AI has a daily limit, Model calls per day.
To keep an automation on your Mac, turn off Allow ChatGPT. It then runs only when your provider is On-device, and skips its run otherwise.