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A reading companion · v1

Solve the essay
you’re reading.

Marginalia turns essays you find online into crosswords whose clues cite the source passages. Solving the puzzle becomes a way of reading — slow, attentive, back and forth between text and grid.

We extract concepts, write grounded clues, fit a crossword. Around 25 seconds.


01 · Drop

Paste any essay URL. We’ll fetch and clean the text.

02 · Preview

Review the concepts the system extracted. Anchor the must-haves.

03 · Solve

Read on the left, solve on the right. Clues link to source passages.


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