Sources & your library

Your library is everything a project reads: the PDFs, notes, recordings and references behind what you’re writing. Anything in it, the agent can read, search inside, teach from and cite. Sources belong to the project you added them to, so each project stays its own world.

How do I add a source?

• Upload from the Library. + Source, then pick what you’re adding: PDF, Markdown, images or audio.
• Drag files onto the project. Drop them anywhere on the canvas. PDFs and audio become sources, Word and Markdown files become documents you can write in, images become project images.
• Paste a link. Add a web page to your library by its URL. Skriptr fetches it, pulls out the readable content and indexes it like any other source, so you can cite it and the agent can search inside it. Good for reports, standards, documentation and news that were never going to be a PDF.
• Clip from the web. The Web Clipper is a Chrome extension that saves whatever you’re looking at straight into a project: a web page, an article, or the PDF itself from a publisher’s page. It works on sites you’re signed into, so a paper behind your university’s subscription comes across as the PDF rather than as a paywall notice. It’s the fastest way to get from a search result to a citable source.
• Let the agent find them. Ask it to research a topic and save what comes back.
• Import a reference list. Under Import references, bring in a .bib file from Zotero or Mendeley, or a .ris file from EndNote, PubMed or Web of Science. These arrive as reference entries: details, no file attached.
• Add one by hand. Custom Citation takes pasted BibTeX or fields you fill in yourself, for a work you have no file for.

What happens to a PDF after I upload it?

The row appears in your library straight away and the rest happens in the background.

Skriptr pulls the text out, falling back to character recognition when the PDF is a scan rather than real text, so a photographed chapter still becomes searchable. That text is split up and indexed, which is what lets the agent pull the one relevant passage instead of re-reading a 40-page paper every time you ask. Page numbers survive all of it, and that’s what lets a citation point at a page rather than at a whole document.

It also tries to work out the reference details on its own, looking the paper up from what it finds in the text. When that works, the source arrives ready to cite. When it doesn’t, you’ll be told, and you can fill the details in under References.

If processing fails outright the row says so, and Retry AI search setup in its menu runs it again. A source that failed to index is still there and still readable; the agent just can’t search inside it yet.

What is the difference between my project library and My Library?

A project library holds that project’s reading. My Library is yours across everything, a shelf for the sources you know you’ll use more than once.

On a PDF in a project, Save to My Library keeps a copy in your own collection so it outlives the project. That works even on a project someone else shared with you, and even if you’re only a viewer there. What you save is yours.

My Library lives in Settings → My Library, and you can add to it directly, uploading PDFs or importing .bib and .ris files without going through a project at all.

Is there a limit on what I can upload?

Yes, and they’re generous enough that most people never meet them:

If a file is refused, the message says which limit it hit. The usual culprit is a scanned book chapter, since a photographed page is many times the size of the same page as text.

There’s no cap on how many sources a project can hold, only on the storage they add up to.

Can I organise things into folders?

Yes. + Folder creates one, and a folder holds both documents and sources, so a chapter can sit with its own reading. Drag rows to move them, or select several and move, download or delete them together.

One quirk to know: a Markdown file you drop lands as a document at the top of your documents, not inside the folder you dropped it on. Move it afterwards if you want it elsewhere.

Where do I go next?

• Research & literature reviews. Finding sources you don’t have yet.
• Citations & references. Turning them into citations.
• Studying & learning. Being taught from what you’ve collected.

Still stuck?

If a source isn’t behaving the way this page describes, tell us. That’s usually a bug rather than something you’re doing wrong.