Sources

The inbox each board keeps for material you have not sorted yet — screenshots, documents, recordings, pasted text and notes from your phone.

Sources holds what you have brought in for a board until you decide where it goes. Each board has its own. On the web, open it from Sources on the bar, beside Ask (or ⌘J); it switches the board to Edit if you were reading. Dropping or pasting onto the board opens it too.

What lands in it#

• Drops and pastes. Drag screenshots, PDFs, Word documents or recordings onto the board, or use + File, twenty at a time. Pasted text or a pasted screenshot becomes an item; + Text lets you type one.
• PDFs and Word documents are read in your browser. Pick PDF pages twenty at a time; a scanned page is read by the AI. Word documents keep their pictures.
• Recordings. Audio or video up to an hour long is transcribed into a text item.
• Another board. + Board brings in a board's notes, yours or shared, as one item. Merging it skips what this board already covers, so repeat it to pull later updates.
• Papers. + Papers searches PubMed on the topic; tick results to add them.
• Your Mac. The Mac app's Send to MySummaries, dock drops and quick notes land here.

Sifting#

Items wait under To sift and move to Processed once dealt with.

Merge into board has the AI suggest where each part of the item goes on the board. You see a diff with a tick beside each line, and only what you keep is applied.

Add as-is puts the item on the board word for word, as its own card, at no cost.

Keep as image puts a picture on the board. On a paid plan the AI then describes it, so cards, papers and Ask can use it; on the free plan, press Describe this picture on the card. Lift text reads a screenshot's words into the item, and a diagram it finds can be cropped out and kept. Lift table is for a picture that is nothing but a table: it is read as a grid, every cell into a row, in strips large enough to read the small print — use it when Lift text has flattened a table. A PDF's page picker has the same under Lift as table. Either way the item then shows what was read as it will land; if the reading got something wrong, say what in the box under it — "the top row is missing" — and press Lift again, then add it once it is right.

Mark an item Done, Reprocess one you have dealt with, or delete it with any file it holds. The stack holds a hundred items waiting; processed ones are cleared after 30 days. On the free plan, lifting, merging, describing, PubMed, a recording and a scanned page each use one of your five AI imports; taking material in as it is costs nothing.

From your phone#

The iPhone app adds to the same stack. Share pictures, documents, recordings or text into a board; in a board's Sources, Write a note takes a typed or spoken note, or pictures and files from the camera, photo library or Files; and the note button while you read, drill, sit a paper or station, or listen writes a note that remembers where you wrote it.

Sources on the phone also edits text items, transcribes voice notes, lifts text, and adds or merges items through the same review; a change to a section edited since the plan was made is skipped, never written over. PDFs, Word documents and long recordings wait for Import on the web, which also crops diagrams.

A note that remembers where you wrote it gets Suggest, on either: it offers to fix that card, write a new one, rewrite the section, set a paper or write a station. Or merge it in like any other item. A subject's dashboard on the web lists what is waiting, under Study.