Chat across multiple documents, with citations that name their source.
Bundle documents from your library into a collection, then chat, summarize and build glossaries across all of them at once. Every citation names the document it came from, one click from the passage.
Aurora Rollout Runbook
Overview
Releases leave the main branch every Wednesday at 14:00 UTC. A release candidate is cut automatically, tagged RC, and deployed to the staging cluster within fifteen minutes. Nothing reaches production without passing the full staging suite twice in a row.
Approvals
Every production rollout needs two approvals: the release captain on duty and one engineer from the owning team. The release captain checks the error budget before signing off; if more than 25 percent of the monthly error budget has been burned, the rollout is deferred to the next window.
Canary stage
The canary stage routes 5 percent of production traffic to the new build for 45 minutes. The canary cohort is selected by session hash, so a returning user stays on the same build for the whole window.
Rollback
Rollback is one command: aurora rollback --to-last-good. It repoints the fleet at the previous build and completes in under four minutes. Run it from the deploy bastion, never from a laptop.
This runbook describes how the Meridian web app ships to production through the Aurora pipeline: a weekly release cut , a two-approval gate , an automated canary stage , and a single-command rollback path .
The question you actually have rarely fits in one document.
Single-document chat is great when the answer lives on one page. But most real questions don't. Have we ever discounted X by more than 10%? spans pricing pages, customer contracts, and a case study or two. Why did we pick Postgres? spans an ADR, an RFC, and a six-month-old PRD.
Collections let you stop opening tabs. Group the documents that belong to a question, then ask the question once. Sidenote queries across every member document and tags each citation with the doc it came from.
Build it, open it, query it.
Build from your library.
Open the Collections drawer in the side panel, name the collection, and add documents you’ve already stored. A document can belong to many collections: they reference your library, they don’t copy it.
Open it like a document.
No active tab required. The side panel treats the collection as the document, and Chat, Summarise and Glossary all switch to collection mode.
Query across the lot.
Ask once. Sidenote retrieves the top chunks globally across every member document, generates the answer, and tags each citation with the source doc.
Citations that name their source.
In single-document mode, clicking a citation chip scrolls the current tab to the highlighted passage. In collection mode, the chip carries the source document with it.
Sidenote checks whether that document is already open in one of your tabs. If it is, the highlight happens there in place, no new tab. If it isn't, Sidenote opens the document in a new tab (the Sidenote viewer for uploaded PDFs and DOCX renders, the original URL for articles and live wiki pages) and highlights the passage once the page is ready. Either way, one click gets you to the source.
When teams reach for a Collection.
Research projects
Bundle a set of arXiv papers, conference talks, or working drafts and ask synthesizing questions across them. Each citation names the paper, so you can trace every claim back to a single author.
RFP and proposal responses
PRDs, case studies, the pricing page, the security overview: all in one collection. When a prospect asks a question, query the bundle once and cite the doc.
Codebase context
Architecture decision records, RFCs, runbooks, the deploy doc. Ask “why did we choose Postgres over DynamoDB?” and Sidenote pulls the answer from the ADR while citing the design doc that informed it.
Support knowledge base
A curated collection of policy pages and help docs. When a complex ticket comes in, query the bundle as one: fewer tabs, faster answer, every claim quoted.
How many documents fit in one collection.
You can have any number of collections; the limit is per collection. See full pricing for the rest of each tier's allowances.
Common questions about collections.
Ask AI across your library.
Add Sidenote to your browser, store a few documents, then bundle them into a collection. Collections start on Pro, with up to 5 documents each.
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