Sources are the material you study from: a lecture’s slides, a paper, a chapter of a book, your notes, a web page or a video. Each source belongs to a topic, and you can read it in Memorics while you write cards from it. Cards can cite their sources, so you can always look up where something came from, even in the middle of a session.
Your sources are only yours. If you share or publish a topic, others see its cards and subtopics, but never its sources. See Share a topic by link.
What you can add
- PDFs, up to 50 MB
- Word documents (.docx), up to 50 MB
- text and Markdown files
- images, up to 10 MB
- links to web pages and YouTube videos
- text you type or paste into Memorics
A large image, such as a photo from your phone, is made smaller before it’s added, so it uploads faster and the assistant can read it.
All your files together, in sources, on cards and in chats, can take up 500 MB on Free and 10 GB on Plus. Files in the trash count until they’re deleted for good. Once they use 80%, Add sources says so. If yours are full, a new file isn’t added: delete files you no longer need to make room (see Your files and storage).
PowerPoint slides can’t be added directly. Export them as a PDF from PowerPoint first, which also keeps them looking exactly as they do in your lecture.
Word documents with equations, charts, SmartArt or embedded objects don’t show those parts in Memorics. When you add one, Memorics tells you, and you can leave it out to add it as a PDF instead, or add it anyway.
How to add them
On a topic’s Sources tab, choose Add sources, or press N. Then:
- drop files on the dialog or pick them, several at once if you like
- or switch to the tab for a link and paste its address
- or switch to the tab for a text and type or paste it
You can also drop files anywhere on the Sources tab, or add a source while writing a card (see Cite sources on cards).
Files upload in the background, each with a placeholder until it’s done. After that, Memorics gets PDFs and Word documents ready for the assistant to read, also in the background: while it does, the source says so, such as “Preparing pages 12 of 80”. You can keep working in the meantime. If you close Memorics before it’s done, it carries on the next time you open the source. When you upload a great many files in a short time, Memorics slows down and adds the rest a little later. A source’s title starts as the file’s name. A YouTube video gets its own title, other links their address, and a text its first line, unless you give it a title yourself.
The Sources tab
Each source shows a preview, its title, what it is (such as “PDF · 24 pages” or a link’s site) and how many cards cite it. Click a source to read it. Its … menu, or a right-click, has Open, Rename, Download (or Open link) and Move to trash.
A YouTube video’s preview is a picture from the video, which Memorics gets once when you add the link, so nothing is loaded from YouTube until you play the video. The picture is kept with your files and counts toward your storage, like the previews of your files. If Memorics can’t get it, the video shows its icon instead.
Sources in the trash stay there for 30 days, and the cards that cited them cite them again once you restore them. If you delete a source for good, its cards stay, but no longer cite it.