Sources

The Sources page is where you keep the raw material the assistant can read while it works on your matter: uploaded files (PDFs, DOCX, images, plain text), external URLs (articles, datasheets, references), and the patents you bookmarked during prior art search. Everything lives in a single grid of cards and you can filter to one kind when you need to.

Filter

Open the View menu and pick a filter: All, Files, Links, or Patents. The active filter is reflected in the URL (?type=files, ?type=links, ?type=patents) so you can deep-link to a particular view.

The search box in the page header narrows the grid as you type. Files match on title, filename, and description; links on title, URL, and description; patents on publication number, title, and applicant. The query is kept in the URL as ?q=.

Sort

Open the View menu and pick a sort under Sort by: Date added (newest first, the default), Name (alphabetical), or Size (largest files first; links and patents have no size and sort after the files). Picking the sort that is already active flips the direction. The sort is URL-backed via ?sort=name or ?sort=size, with ?dir= for the direction.

Adding a file

Click Edit in the top-left corner and choose Upload file, or drag files directly onto the page from your desktop. As soon as you drag a file over the browser window, a large drop zone appears covering the content area; release anywhere inside it to upload. You can drop multiple files at once. Supported formats are PDF, DOCX, PNG, JPG, TXT, and MD, up to 25 MB per file.

How files are read

After a PDF or DOCX upload, the text is extracted to markdown in the background so the assistant can read the content (plain text and markdown files are read directly; images are passed through as-is). A scan row under the file shows the status and word count once it finishes, and View scan in the row menu lets you read the extracted text. Any figures pulled out of a document are listed alongside it. If a scan fails, use Retry scan to run it again.

Click Edit and choose Add link. A new row appears with an empty URL field. Type or paste the URL and press Enter (or click elsewhere). The app fetches metadata from the page (title and description) and saves them alongside the URL. You can also just paste a URL anywhere on the page while no field is focused, and it is saved as a link straight away.

Bookmarked patents

Patents you bookmark from the prior art search appear here as cards showing the publication number, title, applicant, and publication date, alongside the date you bookmarked them. They are the same bookmarks the patents page shows, so removing one here removes it there too. Bookmark details load a moment after the page does, and a patent whose details cannot be retrieved still shows its publication number.

Opening a source

Click anywhere on a card to open it: files open inline in a new browser tab, links open the URL in a new tab, and patents open their detail page in the app.

Per-card actions

Each card has a menu with the actions available for that source:

  • Right-click anywhere on the card to open the context menu at the cursor.
  • Hover the card and click the three-dot button in its top-right corner.

Files offer Open, Download (force-download to disk), and Delete. Links offer Open and Delete. Patents offer Open and Remove bookmark.

Pending sources from the assistant

When the AI assistant suggests adding a link or attaching a file from the web, it appears as a pending change in the list. You can accept or reject each suggestion individually.