Reading Sources
Notes capture what you think. Sources are what you think about — papers, articles, PDFs. Relinkia treats reading as part of thinking: you import a source, read it with your questions in view, react to it in place, and grow your own notes from those reactions. The source stays intact; your thinking layers on top.
Import a source
From the Sources area, import in two ways:
Paste a URL
An article or paper link (an arXiv page, a blog post). Relinkia fetches the content and prepares it for reading.
Upload a PDF
A paper, report, or book chapter from your files. The full document opens in the built-in reader — original layout, formulas, and figures preserved.
While the source is processed, Relinkia extracts its structure and indexes its content so search and chat can reach it. If you import something already in your library, Relinkia detects the duplicate and takes you to the existing copy instead of creating a second one.
Every imported source comes with a companion note — the place where your own words about this material will live. From the import dialog you can jump straight to the reader or to that note.
Content captured with the web clipper lands in the same place, ready for the same reading flow.
Read with your questions
The reader is built for engaged reading, not just display. A table of contents keeps the document's structure in reach, a page indicator tracks where you are, and zoom adapts the layout to your screen.
The difference is the reading context panel. Before or during reading, pin the questions you want this source to answer — "Does this contradict my note on multitasking?", "What evidence supports the main claim?". They stay visible while you read, so the text does not carry you away from what you came for.
Read with intent. A source read without a question produces highlights you never revisit. A source read against your own questions produces answers, objections, and new notes.
Annotate as you read
Select any passage to highlight it (several colors, so you can keep your own code — agreement, doubt, key evidence) or to attach a comment. Comments are not sticky notes: they are small pieces of writing — multi-line, with references to your concepts and tags, exactly like in the note editor.
The source itself stays read-only. Your annotations live as a layer on top of it — you can edit or delete them at any time, and a side panel lists everything you have marked, with one click back to the exact passage.
Concepts join your graph
Concepts mentioned in your comments are extracted and connected to the rest of your knowledge — a highlight about "optionality" links to every note where you already think about it.
Annotations become searchable
Every highlight and comment is indexed. Semantic search and chat see them, so a passage you marked six months ago resurfaces when it becomes relevant.
Leads suggest what to explore
Relinkia reads your annotations and proposes leads — threads worth pulling, tensions with your existing notes, questions your reading opened but did not close.
From reading to your own note
Reading is finished when it has changed your notes. The companion note is where that happens: it is linked to the source, so you can switch between your words and the original text in one click — quote-check while writing, or jump from a highlight back into your own argument.
Because the note is a first-class note, everything you already know applies: wikilinks to other notes, concepts, typed relations. The source enriches your graph through your reactions to it — not by being dumped into it.
Write in your own words. Highlights mark what the author said; the companion note holds what you think about it. A short paragraph in your own words connects to the rest of your thinking — a copied quote does not.