Your permanent news archive

What happened. When. And what happened next.

Save the articles, X posts and videos you read. WHT.day keeps the full text forever, files every save on the day you saved it and turns any topic you follow into a timeline in one click, without tagging a thing.

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One search. The whole story, in order.

This is a real timeline from a real archive. Its owner searched their saves for “AI safety” and pressed one button. WHT.day gathered every related article and post, including ones that never use those words, and laid them out by date, with a line on what each one added.

AI safety
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Narrative timeline · From search

The Push to Keep Artificial Intelligence Under Control

Through 2026, concern shifted from the technical feasibility of advanced AI to who should restrain it: researchers resigned over out-of-control systems, and calls for a slowdown by industry leaders provoked a political and economic fight, while warnings grew that AI-enabled hacking could threaten the financial system. Alongside these safety debates, the industry kept racing ahead, with Anthropic courting investors for a blockbuster IPO even as it faced questions about Chinese rivals and data-center opposition.

  1. Aug 11
  2. 4 weeks later
    Sep 5
  3. 4 days later
    Sep 9

    OpenAI's chief scientist recalled early results showing reasoning models could scale and form their own chains of thought.

    An Alien Mind | OpenAI

  4. 5 days later
    Sep 14

    Four American tech CEOs called for slowing AI development, setting off an economic and political debate over control of the technology.

    The Great AI Slowdown? - WSJ

  5. 5 weeks later
    Oct 16

    Commentators likened a feared coordinated AI cyberattack on global finance to a pre-planned crisis scenario.

    Substack

How narrative timelines work

Why it exists

The news moves on. Your record shouldn’t disappear with it.

Links die, posts get deleted, articles slip behind paywalls, and a folder of bookmarks can’t tell you what happened first. WHT.day keeps the evidence and the order: what you read, when it happened, and how the story moved after that.

How it works

Save it. It’s filed. It connects.

I

Save anything, keep everything

Clip a page with the browser extension, paste a link, or connect X so every post you bookmark is saved for you. WHT.day keeps the full text and images, so the record survives dead links, paywalls and deleted posts.

II

Filed on the day you saved it

Every save lands on its day in a calendar archive. Bookmarks synced from X are filed on the day you saved them.

III

Any topic, as a timeline

Open any save and press Build timeline, or search a subject. WHT.day gathers what’s related by meaning, not just keywords, and lays it out over time. Choose Exact match for one story or Broad for a whole subject.

The archive

Every day you saved, exactly as you saved it

Open any date and see what you were following: the articles, the posts, the notes you added and the original links. Search across all of it, and every result leads back to the day it belongs to.

This is one real day from a real archive: six articles from The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and The Information, saved on Saturday, August 22, 2026.

Saturday, August 22, 2026

6 items saved

More than bookmarks

Built for following a story over time

Your X bookmarks, kept for good

Connect X once. WHT.day imports your 800 most recent bookmarks, then picks up new ones three times a day, with full text and media, filed on the day you saved it. If a post is deleted later, your copy isn’t.

How X sync works

Search that knows what you mean

Search “digital ID” and also find the age-verification rollouts and digital-currency launches you saved. Narrow by source, date or type, then turn the results into a timeline.

How search works

Share the story, not your archive

Send a link to one article or one timeline, or download a timeline as an image. Nothing else in your archive is visible, and you can turn a link off whenever you like.

Timelines and sharing

Who it’s for

People who follow stories, not feeds

News followers
Keep the threads you care about, from conflicts and markets to elections and AI, and see how each one unfolded.
Researchers and OSINT analysts
Preserve posts and reports before they are edited or deleted, with the date they appeared.
Investors and traders
Line up the headlines behind a move in the order they hit, with the sources one click away.
Writers and journalists
Build a sourced timeline for a piece in minutes, every claim linked to the original.

Compared

What a news archive does that a reading app doesn’t

Reading apps are built to help you read later; WHT.day is built to remember when things happened and connect them. Where the others are better, at reading and highlighting, we say so.

CapabilityWHT.dayReadwise ReaderInstapaperRaindrop.ioX bookmarks
Keeps the full text of what you savePro planLink only
Files every save on the day you saved it
Builds a timeline of any topic from your saves
Reading and highlightingNotesBest in classStrongHighlights

The full comparison

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Questions

Common questions

What is WHT.day?
WHT.day is a permanent archive for the news you follow. Save articles, X posts and videos; it keeps the full text, files each save on the day you saved it, and builds a timeline of any topic from what you have saved.
How do the timelines work?
Open any saved item and press Build timeline, or search for a subject and turn the results into one. WHT.day finds related saves by meaning as well as by keyword, keeps the ones that belong to the story, and lays them out by date with a line on what each one added. You can remove anything that doesn’t belong.
Does WHT.day save my X bookmarks automatically?
Yes. Connect your X account and WHT.day imports your 800 most recent bookmarks, then adds new ones three times a day, each filed on the day you saved it.
What happens if an article is deleted or goes behind a paywall?
Your copy stays readable. WHT.day stores the text when you save it, so you can still read it after the original changes, disappears or is paywalled. The original link is kept alongside it.
Who can see my archive?
Only you. Archives are private. You can share a single article or a single timeline with a link, and turn that link off at any time; nothing else in your archive is ever visible.
How much does it cost?
WHT.day costs $8 a month or $68 a year (about three and a half months free on annual). Cancel anytime from Settings.

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