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Guides for people who collect once and create with any AI.

Guides on capturing ChatGPT and Claude conversations as Markdown, connecting your context to any AI over MCP, and Sensefold product updates.

How to Bookmark a PDF, and Save It Where Your AI Can Read It
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How to Bookmark a PDF, and Save It Where Your AI Can Read It

Two ways to bookmark a PDF: build a clickable outline inside the file, or save the PDF into your personal context so search and your own AI can find it.

Pocket is gone: alternatives and how to keep data portable
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Pocket is gone: alternatives and how to keep data portable

Pocket shut down on July 8, 2025; export closed November 12, 2025. Ten alternatives compared, plus the export test that keeps your next library portable.

Personal Research Assistant: Your Own AI on Your Own Library
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Personal Research Assistant: Your Own AI on Your Own Library

A personal research assistant is the AI you already use, reading a private library of everything you saved. How to capture, synthesize, and verify with it, and what to check before you trust one.

9 Knowledge Management Best Practices for 2026
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9 Knowledge Management Best Practices for 2026

Nine knowledge management best practices for 2026: capture-first, automatic enrichment, unified search, agent access over MCP, provenance, and portability.

How to Search and Summarize PDFs: One, Many, Scanned (2026)
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How to Search and Summarize PDFs: One, Many, Scanned (2026)

How to search PDF files (one, many, and scanned with OCR), extract their text, summarize them with a prompt that works, verify the result, and make them readable by your own AI.

How to Organize Notes for Clarity and Instant Recall
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How to Organize Notes for Clarity and Instant Recall

A practical guide to organizing notes: PARA, Zettelkasten and Cornell, a capture-to-recall workflow, and keeping notes readable by the AI you use.

How to Summarize a YouTube Video Accurately and Fast
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How to Summarize a YouTube Video Accurately and Fast

A transcript-first workflow to summarize any YouTube video, verify the claims that matter, and save the transcript as Markdown your own AI reads over MCP.

Best Read-It-Later Apps in 2026 (After Pocket)
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Best Read-It-Later Apps in 2026 (After Pocket)

Best read-it-later apps and bookmark managers in 2026, compared on capture, Markdown portability, and whether your own AI can read what you save. Pocket and Omnivore as context.

Why your AI's answers should cite your own saved sources
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Why your AI's answers should cite your own saved sources

An answer you cannot trace to a saved source is a guess. How your AI, connected over MCP, cites the items it read in your library, and how rivals compare.