Distilled Notes and Review

Distillation turns the scattered thoughts on a highlight into a judgment, framework, question, or action reminder worth keeping. The distilled note stays anchored to the source text, so you can return to the evidence instead of keeping a detached note.

Open the Distillation Window

From an annotation card, open its discussion, then open the distillation window. The draft is on the left and the review discussion on the right.

You can edit the draft by hand or lean on review assistants to organize the discussion and propose changes. Each draft has two states: “Draft” and “Published”. Publishing replaces the raw highlight with the distilled note in the sidebar; unpublishing keeps the draft and review records.

Review Flow

In the review discussion on the right, select one review assistant and send a review request about the draft. The assistant gives structured feedback instead of a generic block of prose:

• Overview: an overall verdict on the draft, such as “solid”, “mixed”, or “weak”.
• Findings: specific issues grouped by category—evidence, logic, coverage, clarity, and action—each with a severity label, sometimes quoting the related draft passage.
• Proposals: draft changes you can apply, split into insert, replace, and delete.

Review results stream in as they are generated, so you do not wait for the whole response.

Proposal Validation

Every proposal is checked against the current draft before it can be applied, so changes do not misfire or miss their target. Common cases give a clear reason, for example:

• The target text is not found in the draft, or appears more than once and needs manual placement.
• The inserted content already exists.
• The proposal was based on an older draft and its anchor can no longer be located.

Each proposal either lands precisely on the draft or tells you plainly that it needs manual handling.

Preview Changes

Before accepting a proposal, click “Preview change” to see the effect inline on the draft. During preview, insertions show in green, deletions show as red strikethrough, and the draft becomes read-only.

Preview is item by item: for each change you can choose “Keep” or “Discard”. If proposals in a batch overlap and cannot be previewed together, you are asked to handle them manually.

Organize Discussion

“Organize discussion” asks the current review assistant to read the highlight, your thoughts, and the whole review discussion, then turn them into additions you can drop straight into the draft. It only produces insert proposals; it never rewrites or deletes existing draft text.

After it finishes, each result can be “Add to draft” individually, reusing the preview flow before it is written.

Anchor Highlighting

When you hover or focus a finding or an organized result, the draft highlights the target location that proposal points at, so you can see where a change would land before accepting it. If the draft has changed since the proposal was generated, the highlight uses a different color to warn that the anchor may have drifted.