Using Ounie

Capturing

A brain is only as good as what you put in it. Ounie gives you a front door on every surface you already use — and they all lead to the same place.

One pipeline#

However a source arrives — typed, uploaded, shared, posted by an agent, or copied from another brain — it joins the same path: it is read, synthesized into a wiki page (unless it is a verbatim note), linked into the graph, and made askable. Once a source is ready, where it came from no longer matters.

The one distinction that carries through is note vs. synthesized: a note is kept word for word, everything else is rewritten into a clean, citable page. See Concepts.

Synthesized or verbatim#

When you upload a file, you choose how it becomes a page:

Synthesize (default)

Ounie reads the source and writes a clean, interlinked wiki page. Best for most material. A synthesized page is capped at about 6,000 words; longer sources are distilled to fit.

Keep verbatim

The extracted text is stored word for word, in full, with no length limit and no synthesis — the same treatment a note gets. Best for reference docs you need preserved exactly: a long FAQ, a policy, a transcript.

Pick Keep verbatim when completeness matters more than a tidy summary — every line is still chunked, embedded, and citable. Synthesized pages stay editable, so you can always refine one by hand.

Every way in#

The surfaces below are all live. Many are different doors onto one engine, not separate systems.

Web app

the live product

Add a link

Paste a URL — Ounie fetches the page and synthesizes it into the wiki.

Add a note

Verbatim text saved as written, skipping synthesis.

Upload a file

PDFs, documents, images, audio, and video, read and synthesized.

Save a chat result

Keep an answer or any passage as a synthesized text source.

iOS app

native capture

Links and notes

Save a URL or jot a note straight from your phone.

Photos and videos

Pick from your library and push them into a brain.

Files

Import any document type from Files.

Record audio

Capture a voice clip; transcribe it on device, no upload.

iOS Share Extension

Save to Ounie, from any app

Share a link

Send a URL from Safari or any app via the share sheet.

Share text

Push a selection into a brain.

Share media or files

Hand off a photo, video, or document from elsewhere.

Chrome extension

save, clip, highlight

Save the page

One click saves the current tab.

Clip the article

Extract the main content to clean Markdown.

Save a selection

Keep just the text you highlighted.

Persistent highlights

Marks re-anchor when you revisit the page.

AI clients (MCP)

conversational capture

Add to a brain

Save text that runs through synthesis and joins the wiki.

Add a note or link

Save verbatim text or a URL from inside your assistant.

From Claude or ChatGPT

One-click connector, no API key to paste.

From Cursor and other hosts

Connect over the official MCP package.

Public REST API

key-authed, programmatic

Add a link

POST a source of type link; Ounie fetches and synthesizes it.

Add synthesized text

POST text content that is synthesized and made citable.

Add a verbatim note

POST a note stored exactly as sent.

Idempotent retries

Pass an external id so repeats return the same source.

Chat connectors

account-linked

Slack

Save with a message shortcut or /ounie save; ask with /ounie ask.

Discord

Save a message from the Apps menu or /ounie save; ask with /ounie ask.

Message the official bot to capture links and text, or to ask.

Forking

derived from a public brain

Fork a public brain

Copy its synthesized wiki and graph into a new brain of your own.

Capturing programmatically? See the REST API and MCP references.