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Bring an article, PDF, podcast, or video into Omphalis. Open the text, get help with a difficult passage, and keep your own notes. The web app holds that reading and the work you build around it.

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In Chelsea Rosenthal’s Mattering That It’s You, an explanation opens over the phrase “little usually hinges”. Read it, compare it with the surrounding paragraph, and continue. You can highlight a passage, add a note, or choose Listen for natural-voice narration.

An explanation opened beside a passage in Mattering That It's You — An explanation opens inside Rosenthal’s article, with actions to keep it, add a note, or put it in a notebook.

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Put your sources beside your own thinking

Make a notebook for a question you are working on. Add the relevant sources and write your own notes between them. You can keep an Ask answer there too, with citations to check when you return.

Finding our first users notebook with two Paul Graham essays, a note, and a question answered from the startup ideas essay — Finding our first users contains two Paul Graham essays, a working note, and an Ask answer. The answer cites How to Get Startup Ideas.

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Library holds the pieces you save. Inbox brings in the sources you follow. Today gives you a place to return to your reading, and Connections helps you explore related material in your Library. Set your voice and reading preferences in Settings.

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Written by Omphalis teamLast updated 5 September 2026