Show HN: Tangents – Non-linear LLM chat with hands-on context control

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5 months ago

LLM chat breaks when you're learning. Side questions either clutter the main chat, or you copy/paste into a new chat and lose the context.

Tangents makes the workflow explicit. You can branch off any message to chase a rabbit hole, then merge the findings back without polluting the main thread.

Key Features:

  - Branching: Select text in any message to fork a new chat.

  - The Collector: Highlight snippets across different branches to build a "shopping cart" of context.

  - Compose: Send a prompt using only what is in your Collector (explicit context control).

  - Console: Inspect exactly what context is being sent to the LLM before you hit enter.

How it's different:

It is not a node-graph canvas. It keeps the linear chat UI but allows inline branching. It is not an agent framework; it is a tool for humans who want manual control over the LLM's context window.

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View it here: https://tangents.chat/hn

Note: Currently supports OpenAI (BYOK supported).

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