Articles, papers, podcasts, talks
Omphalis cleans up what you save and explains the hard parts on the page. Notes, questions, and listen stay with the source.
From a pasted link to the note you come back for.
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Where to start
Here’s one article in Omphalis: Mattering That It’s You by Chelsea Rosenthal.
The article opens in a reading view. Use the section list to find a part you want to spend time on.
Here, an explanation unpacks why routine work can feel less meaningful. It is written for this passage, which stays in view, so you read the two together.
Here, we selected “judgment calls or personal styles” and chose a deeper explanation. It looks at why having room to use your own judgment matters to the author’s argument.
Learn more starts from a passage you select. Highlight the part you don’t follow and the explanation opens beside it, so you don’t leave the piece to go and look it up.
Keep the passage and write down what caught your attention. Your note stays with the highlight, and you can find it again in Marks.
Captured in Omphalis. Select an image to see the detail.
Try the reader →See it in motion
Pasting in a link and getting back something you can read.
Why can work be useful without feeling meaningful? The answer points at Rosenthal’s paragraphs. Open a citation or ask a follow-up.
Ask starts from a question you type, or say out loud in the web app. You choose what it draws on, either just this piece or everything in your library, and the answer links back to the passages it used.
Select the image to see the detail.
Why build around the source? Read the case for comprehension.
Short and easy things do not need much help. Long and dense ones do.
Articles, PDFs, EPUBs, Word docs, podcasts, YouTube, newsletters and your own voice notes all run through the same pipeline. Subscribe to Substack or any publication with a feed right in your Inbox, alongside your podcasts.
Start with one thing you saved.
Drop in the piece you keep postponing. Give it a few minutes.
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Then take it with you
Omphalis is a reading app for the articles, papers, podcasts and videos you save because you want to understand them. Each one opens as a clean page built for reading, in type you can size and space to suit you: articles without ads or pop-ups, an episode or talk as a transcript with speakers and timestamps, and, during the trial or on a paid plan, a PDF's columns and footnotes in one reading order. A section map shows the shape of the piece, difficult terms and claims are explained beside the passage, and your highlights and notes stay where you made them. Away from the screen, you can listen instead.
Web articles and newsletters, PDFs, EPUBs and Word documents, podcast episodes and YouTube videos, plus your own notes and voice notes. Save a link from the browser extension or your phone's share sheet, upload a file, or subscribe to a feed, and what you keep sits together in one Library. On Free, a PDF is stored with its name and page count but not turned into a readable page; that takes the trial or a paid plan.
In any modern browser at app.omphalis.ai, and in the iPhone and Android apps, all sharing one Library. The Chrome and Firefox extensions bring the clean reading view and section map to the page you are on, and the Omphalis app in ChatGPT lets you read from your Library in a conversation. The web app is the most complete, and the phone apps let you download any item to read or listen offline.