Sources

The Sources page is the matter's library: uploaded files (PDFs, DOCX, images, plain text), external URLs (articles, datasheets, references), and the patents you bookmarked during prior art search. Everything is one list, and clicking a row opens it in a reader beside the list — you never leave the page to read a source.

The list

One row per source: its type icon — a link shows the site's own favicon — its title, and underneath it the filename, the site it came from or the publication number, followed by the description. A file whose title is still its filename and that has no description shows what it is instead, like "PDF · 1.2 MB". Files also show their word count once the text has been extracted, and every row shows when it was added.

By default the rows are grouped by type, under headings that stay in view while you scroll ("Files 3", "Links 9", "Patents 18"). Turn grouping off in the View menu for one flat list. ↑ and ↓ move through the list, Enter opens a row, and Escape closes the reader.

Filter, search and sort

  • Type — the switch at the top left shows All, or only Files, Links or Patents. A single type is always a flat list.
  • Search — the field in the middle narrows the list as you type; press / from anywhere on the page to jump into it. Files match on title, filename and description; links on title, URL and description; patents on publication number, title and applicant.
  • Sort — the View menu offers Added date (newest first, the default), Name and Size (largest file first; links and patents have no size and sort after the files). The sort applies inside each group, and a non-default sort is named in the bar under the list.

The type, the sort and the grouping toggle are all kept in the address bar, so a particular view of the library can be bookmarked or shared.

Adding a source

New at the top right offers the two kinds of source: Link and File.

Link opens a blank form in the reader. Fill in the URL and press Enter (or click away): the link is saved — the app fetches the page's title and description if you left them empty — and the new row appears selected. You can also paste a URL anywhere on the page while no field is focused and it is saved straight away.

File opens your file picker straight away — no form in between. You can also drag files from your desktop onto the page: the whole surface is a drop target, whether or not a source is open beside it. Supported formats are PDF, DOCX, PNG, JPG, TXT and MD, up to 25 MB per file. A file that lands is opened and selected in the reader.

Reading a file

Open a file and the reader shows:

  • its title and description, which you can edit — changes save on their own as you leave a field, and the row updates with them;
  • its scanned text: whether the text has been extracted and how many words it holds (or the error if the scan failed) above the text itself, in a readable rendering or as raw markdown, with Rescan at the bottom of the section to run the scan again;
  • the document itself where the browser can show it — images and PDFs render inline;
  • any figures the scan lifted out of the document, as tiles; click one to see it full size.

The extracted text is what the assistant reads, which is why a failed scan is worth rescanning.

Download in the reader's toolbar saves the original file to your computer, Ask assistant hands the file to the assistant with the reference already inserted, and Delete removes it from the matter after a confirmation.

A saved link's reader shows its URL, title and description, all three editable and saved as you leave a field. The URL keeps a copy button at its right-hand edge, and a value you type without https:// gets it added. Clearing the URL puts the saved one back — a link has to point somewhere.

Open externally visits the page in a new tab, Ask assistant hands the link to the assistant, and Delete removes it after a confirmation.

Bookmarked patents

Patents you bookmark from the prior art search appear here. Open one and you get the same patent detail you see on the patents page — drawings, abstract, claims, description, citations, family and classifications — inside the pane. Removing the bookmark, either from that detail or from the row's menu, takes the patent out of this list and off the patents page's saved list too, since they are the same bookmarks. The expand button at the top of the reader (and Open in full page in the row's menu) hides the list and gives the patent the whole page, exactly as expanding it on the patents page does; collapse brings the list back with the row still selected and the reader on the same tab. Files and links are read whole in the pane, so their readers have no expand button.

Row shortcuts

Right-click any row for its shortcuts: opening it in a new tab (or in full page, for a patent), downloading a file, asking the assistant about it, copying the URL or the publication number, and deleting it. Everything in that menu is available somewhere else too — it is a shortcut list, not a hiding place.

Pending sources from the assistant

When the assistant proposes a link, it appears in the list marked Suggested, with buttons to keep or discard it. It becomes an ordinary source once you keep it.