Advanced — Learn Omphalis

Power features and control.

• Scope Ask to the smallest trustworthy source — When you Ask over your own material, choose the smallest scope that holds the answer: the current item, the current Space, or all your Spaces. Ask can also answer how Omphalis works from the guide. A narrower scope gives a more checkable answer, and every answer cites its sources. Searching all your Spaces is part of the higher plans; the item and Space scopes are always there.
• How a Bridge links two Spaces — A Bridge is a private suggestion that your work in two of your own Spaces meets at a shared subject, surfacing a link across a boundary you keep apart. Nothing is shared with anyone and no permissions change; you can open both sides or dismiss it. It is reversible and descriptive.
• Adopt a Thread as a Trail — A Thread is a concentration Omphalis has noticed. When you recognize it as an inquiry worth continuing, adopt it as a Trail inside one Space.
• Operate a large Library — A large Library stays usable through stable metadata, lightweight tags, purposeful Collections, scoped retrieval, and periodic removal of structures that no longer help return.
• Follow provenance before you rely on a suggestion — Every mark and connection links back to its exact passage and source item, so you can inspect provenance before relying on it. Omphalis does not display a confidence score or label; it keeps an internal sense of certainty, stays quiet on thin signal, and leaves the judgement to you.
• Export and data ownership — Export supports custody and portability of your data while preserving third-party source rights. Current privacy, export, and deletion controls live in Settings.
• Build cross-format workflows — Cross-format workflows place articles, PDFs, recordings, meetings, and your own notes in one comprehension stream while preserving format-specific provenance.
• Use Settings as the control plane — Settings is the control plane for preferences, subscription, voice choice, integrations, privacy controls, and help.
• What a save costs — Omphalis meters processing in comprehension units. Settings, under Billing, shows your plan allowance and cycle usage. Costs depend on source size, save level and the work performed, including cleaning, structure, annotations, transcription and narration. A unit is not a fixed number of articles, pages or minutes. On unified billing, processing records fractional usage. The combined cycle total is rounded up once. Temporary reservations can reduce available capacity while a run is in progress; they are not final charges. For a document run with a quote, the quoted processing can settle lower and is capped at that quote. Additional operations are separate. An active grandfathered grant retains legacy size-based pricing until the grant expires; your Usage panel shows which meter applies. Clean keeps the readable source; Structure adds Strata; Full adds Annotations and Connections. Estimates help you choose a level, but actual work and reuse affect the result. Raising a level adds missing processing rather than quoting extraction again. Check the current controls and estimates rather than converting an allowance into a guaranteed item count. Reading saved material and writing notes do not use more units. Keeping a recording uses storage; transcribing it uses units according to its transcription quote. New model processing, narration or Ask work can use units separately. Ask voice also has its own minute allowance. Your monthly included units reset with the billing cycle. Purchased units do not expire. You can choose a unit pack or a larger plan when you need more capacity; automatic top-ups require opt-in on an eligible plan. Available balance and plan entitlements both matter when starting work.
• Keep and Dismiss calibrate the system — Keep and Dismiss on marks and connections are calibration signals: Omphalis slowly adjusts what it surfaces to match what you've shown is useful, without rewriting your stated interests.
• Read the notifications bell — One bell in the app shell has two tabs. Activity is your in-product stream: processing finishing, an export ready, or something needing attention. Updates is a product-announcement inbox rendered as cards. The two are separated so the working signal is not buried under announcements.