Distilled Notes and Review

Distillation transforms scattered thoughts accumulated around a highlight into a durable, structured takeaway—such as an analytical judgment, a conceptual framework, an unanswered question, or an actionable checklist. The distilled note remains permanently anchored to the original text, allowing you to return to the factual ground at any time.

Open the Distillation Window

From any annotation card, enter the discussion thread and click the Distill button. The distillation window opens with your working draft on the left and the review companion panel on the right.

You can craft the draft manually or invite review assistants to synthesize discussions and propose specific enhancements. Drafts support two lifecycle states:

• Draft: An editable workspace for drafting, reasoning, and iterative refinement.
• Published: Once published, the distilled note replaces the raw highlight in the sidebar. Unpublishing restores the original highlight while preserving your distillation draft and review history.

Structured Review Workflow

Select a specialized review assistant on the right panel and submit a review request. The assistant delivers actionable, structured evaluation rather than unorganized prose:

• Executive Verdict: A concise assessment of draft strength (e.g., “Solid foundation,” “Mixed evidence,” or “Logical gap detected”).
• Categorized Findings: Specific issues classified by Evidence, Logic, Coverage, Clarity, and Actionability, each tagged with severity levels and exact draft citations.
• Concrete Proposals: Targeted text modifications categorized into Insertions, Replacements, and Deletions.

Review feedback streams in real time so you can review points without waiting for full completion.

Proposal Validation Safeguards

Every modification proposal is cross-verified against your current draft before application, preventing unintended overrides or target misalignments:

• Warns if target text cannot be located or appears multiple times.
• Detects if proposed additions already exist in the text.
• Alerts if the proposal was based on an earlier revision whose text anchors have shifted.

Each proposal either applies cleanly or provides explicit guidance for manual intervention.

Inline Change Preview

Before accepting any suggestion, click Preview Change to view an inline diff within your draft: additions appear in green highlights, removals are struck through in red, and the editor enters a temporary read-only state.

You can accept or reject changes item by item. If proposals in a batch conflict or overlap, Yomitomo flags them for manual resolution.

Synthesize Discussion

Clicking Organize Discussion instructs the active review assistant to analyze the highlighted excerpt, your initial reactions, and the full multi-turn discussion to extract additive insights. This process generates additive proposals only—it never overwrites or deletes existing draft text without consent.

Each synthesized insight can be individually previewed and merged into your draft.

Dynamic Anchor Highlighting

Hovering over or focusing on any review finding or proposal highlights the exact corresponding passage in the draft. If the draft text has been modified after feedback generation, an adaptive color indicator warns that the anchor position may have drifted.