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Sidenote is an AI summarizer for the documents in your browser: PDFs, Word docs, research papers, wikis and web pages. Pick a length, get a clean summary, and click any point to see the exact passage it came from. No copy-paste, no upload, nothing taken on trust.

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Remote-work policy

Updated 2 Jun · people-team · all staff

Everyone can work from home, but the whole company comes into the office on Tuesdays and Wednesdays so teams have reliable overlap.

You can claim up to £500 a year for a desk, chair or monitor through the home-office stipend. Working abroad is allowed for up to 30 days a year with manager sign-off, as long as your hours still cover core meeting times.

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Tuesdays and Wednesdays are in-office days for the whole company 1
A £500/year stipend covers home desk, chair or monitor 2
Working abroad: up to 30 days a year with manager sign-off 3
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Why cited summaries

Most summarizers ask for your trust.

A fluent paragraph is easy. A fluent paragraph that's actually true to a 40-page document is the hard part, and the part most AI summarizers skip. Sidenote forces every point to cite the passage it came from, checks those citations server-side, and drops anything it can't ground. So instead of re-reading the whole thing to make sure the summary is right, you click a citation and land on the exact line.

And it works across everything you read, not just uploaded PDFs. Summarize a Confluence runbook, a Notion spec, a SharePoint deck or a long article the same way, or bundle several into a collection and summarize across all of them at once.

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How it works

A summary you can check.

01

Open & pick a length

Open any PDF, doc or page, open the side panel, and pick a length on the Summarise tab: TL;DR, Standard or Detailed.

02

Get a cited summary

Sidenote reads the document in place and returns the summary, every point carrying a numbered citation to the passage it came from.

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Verify in a click

Click any citation and the document scrolls to the exact source passage and highlights it. No re-reading, no taking it on trust.

Then take it with you: export any summary as Markdown, HTML, plain text or PDF, copy it as rich text, or send it as a share link anyone can open, no account needed.

FAQ

AI summarizer questions, answered

The best summarizer is one you can trust, which means one that shows its work. Sidenote summarizes any PDF, document or page open in your browser and attaches a citation to every point, so you can click and see the exact passage it came from. Generic summarizers give you a fluent paragraph with no way to check it; Sidenote gives you a summary you can verify in a click.
Open the PDF in your browser, open the Sidenote side panel, and pick a length on the Summarise tab: TL;DR, Standard or Detailed. Sidenote reads the document in place (no upload, no copy-paste) and returns a summary where every claim cites the passage it came from. Click any citation and the PDF scrolls to that line and highlights it.
Yes. Long PDFs, arXiv papers, contracts and reports are where a cited summary matters most. Sidenote handles the whole document, pulls out the key points, and links each one back to its source passage so you can jump straight to the part that matters instead of re-reading 40 pages.
Yes: scanned or image-only PDFs are OCR'd first, so even a document with no text layer can be summarized and cited.
Any model can drift from the source. Sidenote is built against that: every summary is checked server-side against the passages actually retrieved from your document, and anything it can't ground is dropped before you see it. If the document doesn't support a point, it won't appear with a citation. See how citations work for the full detail.
Word documents, PowerPoint decks, text, Markdown, MDX and RTF files, web articles, and pages in Confluence, Notion, SharePoint and Google Docs. Anything you can open in your browser or connect read-only, one summarizer across every source you read.
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Add Sidenote to your browser, open the longest document on your plate, and pick a length on the Summarise tab. Every point arrives with its citation.

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