The Archive
How the Archive makes your content work for you
Your threads become pages, word for word, attached to the topics they’re about. Here’s exactly what gets pulled, what ends up on the page, and what you can do with it once it’s yours.
Search through all of your pieces
Every query a reader types here is a question your Archive answers — and you get to see what they searched for.
Your thread, as a titled page
8 posts become one credited, linkable page — something a reader can send, cite, and find again.
Terms people can read more about
Each defined term links deeper into the reference layer — internal links are part of why the page indexes better than a thread ever can.
The rest of your Archive, one address
Readers who arrive for one thread find the others — including the ones drafted after you claimed.
Your call to action, on every page
Booking, subscribing, whatever you point people at — pinned to the bottom where a reader who just finished the piece can act on it. The Archive isn’t only somewhere to publish.
Elie Jarrouge, MD
@ElieJarrougeMD · Book · Subscribe
GLP-1 Medications vs. Nutrition: A Twin Thought Experiment2
ltrl.com/providers/elie-jarrouge/glp-1-vs-nutrition · 8 posts
You can build a lighter body with medication.
You can only build a healthier body with better building materials.
Most people don’t understand the difference.
Defined terms3
More from this Archive4
ApoB and Cardiovascular Risk: A Mental Model
Type 2 Diabetes and Muscle Loss
What Happens, Step by Step
- 01
We pull your public posts
Only what’s already public. Recent posts come from the timeline; older ones come from search, which is how the Archive reaches back years rather than weeks. Nothing private, nothing from your DMs, and no access to your account.
- 02
Each thread is rebuilt as one readable page
In order, word for word, with the timestamps kept and every post linked back to the original. Nothing is rewritten, summarised or paraphrased — a thread that took nine posts reads as one page instead of nine. It gets a title and a real URL, and the charts and images come with it, stored on our side so the page doesn’t rot when a link dies.
- 03
The page is attached to the topics it’s about
A thread about taurine attaches to the taurine page — the reference data, the studies, the lab test. Where you cited research, the citation is attached to the page rather than left as a bare link. It turns up when somebody searches the topic instead of sitting on an island, and readers who arrive for the topic find your writing on it.
- 04
You claim it, and it becomes yours
Your name, your bio and your links at the top, in place of the unclaimed notice. Later, if you want, any thread can be rebuilt in the Publishing Studio — but that’s optional and it happens after, not now.
Where It Pulls From
X first, because threads are the format that suffers most from a feed. The rest follow the same pipeline.
X
Threads and standalone posts, back as far as search reaches.
Substack
Posts import the same way. The thing Substack doesn’t give you is search across your own back catalogue by author — that’s what the Archive adds.
YouTube — beta
Downloaded, transcribed and timecoded, so what you said out loud becomes text somebody can search — and each answer links back to the moment in the video it came from. Podcasts work the same way.
What Claiming Actually Involves
It takes about two minutes
Start to finish, once. There is nothing to install, nothing to migrate and nothing to maintain afterwards.
One acceptance covers everything under your handle
You don’t do this page by page. One click covers what’s already there and anything added later.
There is no permissions screen
We are not asking to connect to your X account, and claiming gives us no access to it. No OAuth grant, no posting on your behalf, no reading your DMs. The account exists so the pages have an owner, and so your links and your numbers have somewhere to live.
You get a clean address
ltrl.com/providers/your-name — one link for a bio, holding everything you’ve written.
We check it’s actually you
Quick, but real. Creators confirm through a DM from the account; clinicians confirm through the practice the NPI is attached to. It’s there so nobody can claim your name, which is the same reason it takes a moment rather than none at all.
For what changes on the page once it’s yours, the side-by-side is on the creator overview →
What You Do With It Once It’s Yours
Claiming is the first step. Everything here opens up after it.
Answer with it, instead of retyping
Somebody asks the question you already answered eighteen months ago. Search your own Archive by subject, and reply with the page rather than the thread nobody can find. The same applies in DMs.
Turn the strongest threads into full articles
The Publishing Studio automatically suggests candidate posts and enriches what’s already in your Archive — citations, defined terms and links to the rest of your work, the things that make a page rank rather than just exist. Nothing is rewritten without your approval, and the thread stays as it is.
One link that covers all of it
The address in your bio stops being a choice between one post and a homepage nobody updates. It points at everything you have written, sorted by subject, and it keeps working as you add to it.
Know which ones are worth it
Most people don’t want to convert a whole back catalogue. Suggestions point at the handful of posts with a real chance of ranking for something people search.
Let Archive Respond for You Beta
Someone replies to a two-year-old thread on X
They want to know whether you ever wrote more about it. You will probably never see it, and if you do it is weeks late. Your Archive answers for you — in public, under the post on X, from your account, pointing at the thing they asked for.
Dalton (Analyze & Optimize)
The aspirin advice changed and almost nobody noticed why. Here’s the actual evidence.
Show this thread
Priya Raman
Replying to @Outdoctrination
do you have anything more on aspirin?
Dalton (Analyze & Optimize)
Replying to @priyaraman
Everything I’ve written on aspirin, in one place: ltrl.com/providers/dalton-graham?q=aspirin
ltrl.comDalton Graham — LtrlSearch everything Dalton has written.Target state · the reply feature is in beta · illustrative account activity
The reader gets the answer they asked for. You get a reader you would otherwise never have known about — from writing you finished two years ago and have not thought about since.
Common Archive Questions
Does publishing a full article get me more traffic?
It gives you more to be found with. An Archived Post is already a real page. An Ltrl Article adds the things search engines and AI answers weigh when they decide what to show — citations, defined terms, and links into the rest of your work.
Nobody can promise you a position, and anyone who does is selling you something. What changes is that you have a page eligible for questions a thread was never going to answer. What that looks like for a creator →
Is it public?
Yes — public the same way your posts already are. Anyone can read it and search engines can find it. That’s the point of it.
Every post is word for word what you wrote, credited to you, timestamped, and linked back to the original. Until you claim it the page is marked unclaimed, so nobody assumes you had anything to do with putting it there.
Public is the part that pays you back. A page anyone can reach is a page that keeps introducing you — to readers searching the subject, months after you wrote about it. Claim it and that introduction carries your name, your bio and wherever you want people to go next.
Who owns the writing?
You do. We’re displaying your posts, not acquiring them — there’s no transfer of rights, no exclusivity, and nothing stopping you publishing the same material anywhere else. Claiming a page doesn’t change that; it just puts your name and your links on it.
What you gain is a second life for writing you have already done. The same posts, on pages built to be found, gathered under your name at one address — still yours, and now working for you long after the feed has moved on.
Claiming turns writing you have already done into pages that keep working for you.
The longer someone stays with your writing, the more they trust you.
Claiming takes about two minutes.