Exploring

Stem

Document your rabbit holes; find trails worth following.

stem.md

Leave a trail.

A rabbit hole documented as you go, from any device, and the trails other people left.

platforms

Web, iPhone, a Chrome extension

since

March 2026

links

stem.md

stack

A web app and API, an iOS app and a browser extension, each its own repository

status

Exploring; most of it is built

signature

Stems, artifacts, nodes, branches: the vocabulary is the design

the problem

Rabbit holes leave no trail. The links, notes and half-thoughts of a week of curiosity end up in twelve tabs and a screenshot.

the approach

Stems: document a rabbit hole as you go, from the browser, the phone or the web, and follow the trails other people left when their curiosity went the same way.

what we learned

It is about ninety percent built and it stalled on conviction, not bandwidth. The open question is whether people want to publish their curiosity, and that is a question to ask before finishing.

next

Gauge interest before writing more code.