Use it — Learn Omphalis

Last updated 2026-07-31, from the Learn Omphalis edition.

Real, step-by-step scenarios.

Get through a dense paper

Get through a dense paper you keep reopening — Getting through a dense paper starts by seeing its length and shape, not by shortening it. The density map shows where the paper's weight sits before you read.
One clean reading surface — A saved PDF becomes one clean reading surface with Strata showing its entities and typed sections, and marks appear as passive dotted underlines. The paper stays whole.
Listen, and pick up where you left off — Listen reads the paper aloud and holds your place, and Today brings you back where you stopped. Omphalis makes the whole paper reachable without shortening it.
Try it: the shape of getting through — The four moves of getting through a dense paper are: open it clean, see the shape in Strata, mark the claim that matters, then listen and return.

Turn a long podcast into retention, not fragments — A long podcast usually leaves you with fragments, not the argument. The job is to keep what the episode gave you, so a valued moment stays findable.
See the episode's shape before you press play — Strata maps a podcast into typed moments and speakers, and the diarized transcript makes any line findable. You can start at the argument instead of drifting.
Listen, and save the moment that shifts your thinking — Saving a moment in your own words turns a passing line into a mark you own, and Today brings it back when returning is useful.
Try it: keep what mattered — Deliberately kept material lives in Library, the surface of accumulated understanding.

Finish the pile you keep meaning to get to — A read-later pile grows because saving is easy and finishing is hard. Omphalis turns the pile into items you can actually finish one at a time.
Open one, and it stops being a wall — Each saved item opens as one clean reading surface with Strata showing its shape, so the pile stops feeling like a wall.
Mark what mattered, keep it, and it comes back — Keeping a mark from an item saves what mattered, and Today brings it back later, so finishing means keeping, not just accumulating.
Try it: finishing versus piling — Finishing a read-later item follows an order: open it clean, see its shape, mark what matters, then keep it so it returns through Today.

Get the substance out of a talk without watching all of it — Learning from a talk starts by turning it into something readable and structured, not by watching all of it. Omphalis transcribes the talk and shows its shape.
A talk becomes a readable, structured page — Clean turns a talk into a readable page and Video Strata marks its typed moments, so you can see the shape and jump to what matters instead of scrubbing the timeline.
Follow a moment, keep what matters — Video Strata's typed sections are entry points; you follow a claim, mark the moment that matters, and keep it, while the original video stays one tap away.
Try it: from watch-later to understood — The four moves are: open it clean as a transcript, see the shape in Video Strata, mark the moment that matters, then keep it and return.

Follow one question across several sources — A research question usually lives across several sources. The job is to hold them together as one inquiry and see how they relate.
Gather the sources into a Collection — A Collection is a deliberate, curated set you choose, gathering sources on one question across formats into a single project.
Let Connections point out how they relate — Connections surfaces echoes, tensions, and bridges across the sources you keep, as invitations to compare passages. You keep a link only when it sharpens the question.
Try it: what holds a project together — A Collection is the deliberate, curated set you choose yourself, which is what holds a research project together.