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.
• 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.