Click a source to open it. It fills the screen, with a side panel beside it that has two tabs: Cards, the cards that cite it, and AI, the assistant. Drag the edge of the panel to make it wider or narrower, and the width you choose stays on this device. The X at the top of the panel closes it, and on a computer the Side panel button at the top hides it and shows it again. On a phone, the panel fills the screen, and Cards at the top opens it. Back at the top, or Esc, takes you back to where you opened it from.
PDFs
A PDF shows its pages one below the other. The bar at the bottom shows the page you’re on and goes to any other. Zoom with its buttons or with + and -, and fit the width again with 0. You can select text on a page and copy it into a card.
To keep just a part of a long PDF, such as one chapter of a book, choose Save pages as a source in the … menu. The pages become a source of their own, while the file is only stored once.
Other kinds of sources
- Word documents and Markdown are shown like the pages of a book. A Word document may look a little different than in Word. If it doesn’t look right, add it as a PDF instead.
- Images fit the screen. Click one to see it at its full size.
- YouTube videos show a picture from the video with a Play video button. Nothing is loaded from YouTube until you click it. Then the video plays right on the page.
- Other links open in a new tab, as most websites can’t be shown inside another app.
Edit a text
A text you typed or pasted into Memorics can be changed later: choose Edit. You see the text and how it will look side by side, or on tabs on a phone. Save it with Ctrl Enter (⌘ Enter on a Mac), or cancel with Esc.
Write cards from a source
On the Cards tab next to the source, choose New card from this source, or press N. Every card you write there cites the source. On a PDF, the card cites the page you’re looking at as you scroll, until you pick other pages yourself.
Below, you’ll find every card that cites the source. Click one to edit it, or click its citation to jump to the page it cites.
The … menu also has Rename, Download (or Open link) and Move to trash.
Ask the assistant while you read
The AI tab is the assistant, with the same chats as everywhere else. Assistant at the top opens it, and so does Ctrl . (⌘ . on a Mac). Whatever you ask goes with the source and, on a PDF, the page you’re looking at, so you can ask about “this page”. Its label above the box where you write can’t be removed.
Three buttons ask for the usual tasks in one click: Cards from this page and Cards from this source make cards for the source’s topic from the page you’re on or from all of it, and Explain this page explains the page you’re on. See Quick actions.