You bookmark great threads on X and never see them again. Totem turns your new tab into a distraction-free environment for those bookmarks, the way you'd read on Substack. Open a thread full-width, highlight what matters, search everything, export etc.
Hi everyone! I'm Ankit 👋
I have a bad habit: I bookmark brilliant threads on X telling myself I'll "read it later." Later never comes. The bookmarks page is a graveyard, no order, no search, no way to actually read anything longer than a glance.
I kept wishing my bookmarks looked like a Substack post. Full width. Clean type. No infinite feed pulling my attention away. Just me and the thing I wanted to read.
So I built Totem.
It turns your new tab into a quiet reading room for your X bookmarks:
- 📖 Read, don't scroll — threads unroll into a clean, full-width article
- ✍️ Highlight & annotate — mark the lines worth keeping, like you would in a book.
- 🔍 Search everything — find that one thread by a word you remember
- 📤 Export — send highlights and threads to your notes (Obsidian, Markdown), full and partial bookmark export
- 🌱 A calm browser new tab - new tab becomes an invitation to read something you already chose, instead of doomscrolling.
The whole idea: the things you saved should be easy and pleasant to actually read.
It's a free Chrome extension. I'd love your honest feedback, especially on the reading experience. What would make you actually return to your bookmarks?
Interesting product. I have gotten into the habit of bookmarking on my browser - both X posts and other to reads - and then going through them once a week. Any plans on expanding this beyond X?
Oh man, my X bookmarks are a landfill. I save threads at 1am then never see them again. Turning new tab into a calm reading page sounds… doable. Love the highlights + Obsidian export. How’s it handle super long threads or ones with a bunch of media?
Congratulations on the launch! I bookmark things all the time and almost never go back to read them. How does Totem decide what to resurface first?
Bookmarks-you-never-read is one of those problems where the saving is the reward and the reading never happens, so organizing them only helps if it also changes when they surface.
As someone who's shipped a Chrome extension, the part I'd want to know is what happens on X's side. Reading bookmarks means either scraping the timeline DOM or going through the API, and both have been moving targets — the DOM shifts without notice, and the API tier that covers bookmarks isn't cheap. Which route did you take, and how often has it broken on you? For an open source project that maintenance cost is the thing that decides whether it's still working in a year.
Every one is solving for bookmarks for links, but this seems like first whole-hearted attempt to fix twitter bookmarks once and for all. Speciality softwares like this actually work. I am installing it right away. Thanks for shipping this @iankit17 🙌
About Totem on Product Hunt
“Your Twitter bookmarks organized to make you read them”
Totem launched on Product Hunt on July 29th, 2026 and earned 135 upvotes and 16 comments, placing #7 on the daily leaderboard. You bookmark great threads on X and never see them again. Totem turns your new tab into a distraction-free environment for those bookmarks, the way you'd read on Substack. Open a thread full-width, highlight what matters, search everything, export etc.
Totem was featured in Chrome Extensions (52.7k followers), Open Source (68.7k followers), Twitter (24.3k followers) and GitHub (41.3k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 55k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted Totem?
Totem was hunted by Ankit Sinha. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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