Keep the sentence you just read on a web page, without leaving the page (This week in Graphium, Nov 2 - 8)

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This week I worked on three moments: picking things up while reading, keeping the knowledge in shape, and handing it to other people.

1. Keep an important sentence while you read an article

Select a sentence in Chrome and press the toolbar icon, and it becomes a memo in Graphium and is added as a quote to a note for that page. I want to catch as much as possible of what I read, so every clip from the same page goes into one note. It works with the desktop app. (v0.112.0)

2. Quote a paper open beside your note, straight into the note

Select text in a PDF opened beside your note and choose "Quote in note", and it goes in at the cursor. I wanted to drop the round trip to the material view. The quote remembers the selected sentence on its own, so even after you rewrite it into a comment, "Open source" takes you back to that sentence. (v0.121.0)

3. Look after your knowledge without deciding each item yourself

Press "Tidy up for me" and the AI runs the check and the source check, then merges duplicates and fixes unbacked sentences. Upkeep that asks you to decide each item one by one is hard to keep up. Where sources disagree, it writes both views down with their sources. Everything it does can be undone from the upkeep history. (v0.117.0, v0.118.0)

4. Share some things with everyone and keep others inside your team

You can now register several shared folders that different people can read, and pick where something goes the first time you share it. Templates may go to the whole organization while findings stay inside a department; what you share decides how far it should reach. Who can read what is left to the folder permissions. (v0.122.0)

5. Light work on a local model, only the hard work on a strong one

AI models can now be assigned in three tiers: default, standard and precise. When I measured the main AI features with five models, chat was fine even on a model running on my own machine, while extracting procedures and making plans fell apart without a strong one. Choosing by difficulty rather than by feature seemed easier to get right. (v0.125.0)