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Introducing JayBoard
A private visual library for the images, videos and pages you find on the web — captured in a click, described by AI, and arranged on a canvas.
JayBoard is live at jayboard.com. This is what it is and why it exists.
The thing that keeps happening#
You find a picture worth keeping — a layout, a colour, a piece of type, a frame from a video — and you save it. Into a bookmark folder you will never open, a tab you will lose, a screenshot on the desktop named Screenshot 2026-08-19 at 14.03.11.png. Six weeks later you know you have seen the thing. You cannot find it.
The tools that handle this well handle articles. They save the words, make them searchable, and give you them back to read. That is the right design for a queue of things to read, and it is the wrong one for a pile of pictures, because the thing you remember about a picture is never the words on the page it came from.
JayBoard is built for the pile of pictures.
Saving is a click#
Capture is an overlay you aim at the page. AltShiftS brings it up, you click the images you want, and one form at the end says where they go. Or AltShiftD, where each click sends what is under it straight to your active project with no form at all.
That is the part that has to be cheap. Clicking five images on a page should not be five dialogs, and if saving costs you a decision every time, you stop saving.
The extension also takes a video, a link, or a whole page — saved as one self-contained file, so it still opens after the site behind it is gone.
Then it describes what it saved#
Everything that arrives can be annotated: tags, a description, or both, written from the picture rather than from the page it came from. A screenshot of a dark navigation bar gets described as a dark navigation bar, so it comes back a month later for the words you would actually think of.
Search then runs in full text across titles, tags, those descriptions, your own notes, addresses, filenames, and the whole text of any page you saved offline.
And then you can lay it out#
The half that makes it a visual library rather than a tidy folder: every board is an infinite canvas. Drag things out of the library onto it, group them into frames, write on them, connect them, and export the result as PNG or SVG.
A pile of references is not useful until you can see it next to itself. That is what a canvas is for, and it is why a list of links was never going to be enough.
What it is not#
There is no feed. There is no algorithm, nothing recommended, and nobody else's material in your library. Every account gets its own store, and that separation is structural rather than a filter we remember to apply.
It is a hosted product with a Chrome extension, which means there is nothing to run and nothing to maintain — and it means it is not self-hosted. If that is a dealbreaker, it is an honest one.
Try it#
There is a live demo that needs no account: a read-only library with a moodboard in it, which is the fastest way to tell whether this is the thing you have been missing. The documentation covers the rest, and the changelog is where everything new shows up.