Adding Sources

A source is anything you add to a brain. Ounie reads it, then synthesizes it into your wiki.

What Ounie can read

• Documents — PDFs and Word documents.
• Images — processed with OCR, so text inside an image becomes searchable, citable content.
• Audio and video — transcribed automatically, then synthesized like any other source. (Audio and video ingestion is a Pro feature.)
• Web pages — paste a URL and Ounie fetches the page, extracts the main content, and synthesizes it.
• YouTube videos — supported via link, so you can ask about a video later.
• Notes and plain text — paste text directly.

Notes vs. synthesized sources

A note is saved verbatim and bypasses synthesis — useful when you want the exact text preserved. Links, files, and text sources are read and synthesized into clean wiki pages. You choose: add text as a synthesized source, or keep it exactly as written as a note.

How to add a source on the web

From a brain's Sources tab, paste a link, jot a note, or upload a file. Ounie processes it in the background and the new pages appear when they're ready. Short text and links are typically quick; large files, long audio or video, and big PDFs take longer because of transcription and OCR.

Your originals are safe and immutable

Files are uploaded directly to secure cloud storage (AWS S3) through presigned URLs — the server never proxies your upload bytes. Your raw sources are kept exactly as you added them and are never altered. The synthesized wiki is a separate layer built on top of them.

Importing your existing knowledge

Ounie has a bulk-import wizard that brings in your existing knowledge from tools like Notion and Obsidian, among other formats. An empty brain shows an "Import from Notion/Obsidian…" entry point to get you started fast.

Deleting sources

Your brains are yours. You can delete any source — or a whole brain — at any time, which also frees up storage.