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Stop losing the research that wins you clients. Save articles, PDFs, and videos from anywhere. Liminary recalls what you need, when you need it.

Create blank files, custom file types, templates, whole batches, and reusable folder setups exactly where you are working on macOS.

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| Website | liminary.io | createfilesplus.com |
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| Company | Startup from the United States · 1 - 9 employees · 2025 | Startup from the United States · 1 - 9 employees · 2026 |
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In their own words, as submitted to SaaSHub.


Liminary is an AI-native knowledge platform built for consultants, fractional strategists, and small professional services firms. It captures content from anywhere you work — articles, PDFs, YouTube videos, AI chat conversations, emails — through a Chrome extension and web app. Instead of just...
CreateFiles+ adds the file creation workflow macOS should have had all along. Create a new file exactly where you are working, without opening TextEdit, saving-as, using Terminal, or dragging template files around. Use Finder right-click menus where macOS allows them, or fall back to the Finder...
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Liminary's answer
Liminary is the only tool that covers save, organize, recall, and create in one AI-native workflow. Most tools handle one piece: bookmark managers save links, note apps organize, AI chatbots generate. But none of them connect your actual saved research to what you produce. Liminary does. It ingests anything (articles, PDFs, videos, AI conversations), then proactively surfaces the right knowledge when you need it, without you searching. It also fact-checks your outputs against your sources and flags gaps in your research, something no other tool in this space does.
CreateFiles+'s answer:
macOS should have created this feature out of the box but does not exist. Windows users have had this feature for over a decade. I created this to remove that gap for macOS users.
Liminary's answer
If you use Feedly or similar tools to monitor industry trends, you can read but not synthesize or create from what you save. If you use Guru or Glean, you get knowledge retrieval for teams, but it's built for internal company knowledge, not the external research consultants gather for client work. If you use ChatGPT or Claude alone, you get generation but no access to your own saved research, which means hallucinations and no source citations. Liminary connects all of that: capture from anywhere, AI recall with 4x better accuracy than ChatGPT + Google Drive, and creation tools that let you go from research to deliverable without leaving the product.
CreateFiles+'s answer:
I am not familiar with any competitors doing this today.
Liminary's answer
Independent consultants, fractional strategists, and small professional services firms (1 to 5 people) who bill for their perspective. These are professionals who synthesize large volumes of research into client deliverables like strategy decks, positioning docs, market analyses, and recommendations. Their work depends on the quality and accuracy of the information they bring to the table.
CreateFiles+'s answer:
Power Users, Developers, Productivity focused users, students, teachers, creators.
Liminary's answer
Liminary is built on an AI-native architecture using semantic ingestion that preserves meaning at sub-document granularity, a context detection engine that predicts what knowledge is relevant to your current work, and an MCP-ready infrastructure that allows integration with other AI tools and agents. Available as a Chrome extension and web app.
CreateFiles+'s answer:
Xcode and Swift
CreateFiles+'s answer:
Its brand new so that is yet to be determined.
CreateFiles+'s answer:
I have struggled with not having this capability in Finder for years and decided I would fix the problem for me and then see if other users would want the same solution.
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