Quick Start

Yomitomo is a local-first AI reading companion for desktop. It does not read instead of you. It helps you highlight, annotate, question, and discuss while you read. Articles, annotations, discussions, provider settings, and API keys stay on your computer.

First Run

1. Open Yomitomo and read the onboarding introduction.
2. Go to Settings, then Models and Routing.
3. Add a model provider, enter its API key, and test the connection.
4. Assign task routes for reading assistants and review assistants.
5. Return to the Library and import a web article, EPUB book, or PDF document.

You can switch the app language in Settings. Website docs are available in Chinese and English. To sync highlights, thoughts, and reading progress from WeRead, first read “Get a WeRead API Key”.

Product Areas

Yomitomo is organized around a few core areas:

• Library manages web articles, EPUB books, and PDF documents.
• Reader handles reading, highlights, annotations, discussions, and distilled notes.
• Assistants manages AI reading assistants and review assistants.
• Stats reviews local reading activity and WeRead statistics.
• Settings configures language, models, themes, sound effects, shortcuts, data management, and updates.
• WeRead syncs highlights, thoughts, and reading progress through an API key.

Reading Model

Yomitomo is not built around summaries. It is built around keeping your chain of judgment:

• Highlights are evidence anchors in the source text.
• Notes are the smallest durable output of reading.
• Comments keep a note open to questioning and revision.
• AI assistants join only when you need them in a discussion or co-reading flow.

Continue with “Library and Import” to bring in your first reading item.