A personal reading queue for the minutes a language model takes to think.

Anyone working alongside a language model knows the gaps. Five minutes for a thought. Ten for a draft. Half an hour for the agent to finish a task you can’t supervise. These minutes add up, and they’re the wrong shape for most things — too short for real work, too long to just stare at the screen.

The shape that fits is reading. The blog post you bookmarked last Tuesday. The Stratechery piece you keep meaning to open. The release notes you skim on your phone in the kitchen and never finish.

hum.cards is a small, private place to put those URLs and read them on purpose. Paste, subscribe, drop a bookmarklet — they queue up in a single list you order yourself. Click in to read inside an editorial reader that remembers where you left off.

One queue, in order. Everything you’ve saved waits in a single list, ordered the way you’ll read it. Drag a row to reprioritise. What you’re reading sits at the top, lit; Done and Archive tuck into the Library.

Five ways in. Paste a URL in the queue. Subscribe to an RSS or Atom feed and let the half-hour poller fill your inbox. Drag a bookmarklet onto your bar and add any page in one click. Run hum add <url> from your terminal. Or wait for new feed entries to arrive on their own.

An editorial reader. Articles are extracted with Mozilla Readability and rendered in Source Serif 4 — the same face you’re reading right now — on the same canvas as the rest of the app. Scroll position saves per card. A focus mode hides everything but the page.

An inbox for the noise. RSS dumps don’t pollute your queue. They land in a triage inbox first. You promote what you actually want to read; the rest gets skipped.

This is what an article looks like once you click into it. Same type, same canvas, same column width as the page you’re reading right now. The landing is, more or less, a demo of the product.

Most reading apps assume reading is a primary task. You sit down to read, you finish, you mark it done.

But the way most of us actually read on the internet is the opposite. Reading is what happens in the cracks. Between meetings, while CI runs, after you send a message and before the reply comes back.

The cracks are getting wider. Every tool now waits on something else. hum.cards is for that.

Use them if they work for you. hum.cards isn’t a competitor — it’s a specific tool for a specific moment. It’s single-user by design. It doesn’t show you what other people are reading. It doesn’t push notifications. It doesn’t try to be a knowledge base or a highlight-syncing service.

It’s a place you go when you have ten quiet minutes, look at four short stacks of paper, pick the one you’re in the mood for, and read.

Sign in with email or Google. You’ll get an empty queue and an inbox waiting for its first feed. Paste a URL or subscribe to something to get going.