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Documents — overview

Documents are other people’s files: contracts, invoices, decks, scans, PDFs out of newsletters. Unlike notes, you don’t write them — you put them somewhere so you can find them and ask about them later.

The section lives inside the Notes module, under “All documents”.

What happens on upload

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  1. The file is saved into your data folder.
  2. Text is extracted — from PDFs, office formats, plain text. Images and scans go through text recognition.
  3. The text is split into fragments and indexed — full-text and vector.
  4. A document card appears: title, type, size, pages, language.

Parsing and indexing both carry a status. If the format isn’t supported or the file is broken, you can see it rather than having it hidden in a log.

Supported formats

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PDF, office documents and spreadsheets, presentations, plain text and Markdown, images. Video and audio are stored as files; for sound there is a separate Recordings module.

Organising

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The structure here is deliberately plain — two things, no hierarchies, no rules:

  • Collections — folders for documents. A document sits in one collection or outside all of them: on upload that’s the “Inbox”, in the move menu it’s “Uncategorised”.
  • Tags — flat labels, assigned at upload time.

The list searches by title, and picking a collection in the submenu narrows it to that collection. Each row shows the date, size, extension and the collection with its colour.