AI for SharePoint & OneDrive - chat with your files, cited.
Sidenote is a browser extension (Chrome, Edge and Firefox) that reads your SharePoint and OneDrive files through delegated, read-only Microsoft Graph access: Word docs, PDFs, decks. Ask a question and every answer carries a citation that takes you to the exact passage. No Copilot license required.
Delegated read-only Graph access · Works with SharePoint Online & OneDrive
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Everything's in SharePoint. Nothing's findable.
The runbook, the policy, the architecture decision, last quarter's deck - all there, all real, all buried under nested folders and three near-identical versions of the same file. SharePoint search ranks them about the same, and the deck's answer is sitting in a speaker note nobody opens.
Sidenote reads the file you're on and answers the question, then shows you the passage it used, so you can tell at a glance whether it's still true.
How Sidenote works on SharePoint & OneDrive.
Sign in with Microsoft.
A one-time, read-only sign-in with your own Microsoft 365 account. Most tenants need nothing more; locked-down tenants may need a single admin consent for the read-only Graph permissions.
Open a file, ask a question.
Open a Word doc, PDF, deck or site page from SharePoint or OneDrive. Sidenote pulls it through Microsoft Graph and answers - summary, plain-English explanation, or chat.
Click a citation, see the passage.
Every claim is grounded in a quoted chunk of the file. Click the chip and Sidenote takes you to the exact passage - including the right slide and its speaker notes.
Pulling an answer from several files? Bundle them into a Collection and ask once - each citation names its source file. Prefer the head-on pitch? See chat with documents.
What teams ask SharePoint - and how Sidenote answers.
“What's the rollback procedure?”
Sidenote reads the runbook in the doc library and quotes the exact step - not the superseded version filed next to it.
“Why did we choose this architecture?”
Decision records buried in a Word doc surface in seconds, with the trade-off paragraph quoted back to you.
“What did the QBR deck actually say?”
Sidenote reads the slides and the speaker notes, and cites the slide the number came from. Decks stop being write-only.
“What's our policy on data retention?”
It finds the clause in the policy document and quotes it, with the date it was last reviewed.
“Who owns this process, and how do I escalate?”
Reads the process page and the escalation matrix together, citing each source file.
“I'm new - where do I even start?”
New joiners query the team site directly instead of hunting through nested folders nobody can navigate.
Delegated, read-only, and only what you open.
Sidenote uses delegated Microsoft Graph access: it acts as you, sees only what your account can see, and only reads a file when you open it. There is no tenant-wide crawl and no third-party copy of every document. On tenants that require it, an administrator grants the read-only permissions once; after that, each person works within their own access.
Your files stay in your account.
Content lives behind row-level security in our UK (eu-west-2) Supabase region - your content stays scoped to your account. Anthropic and Voyage AI both run with no-training defaults on the API tiers we use; we never fine-tune models on user content.
Common questions about Sidenote for SharePoint & OneDrive.
Make SharePoint answer back.
Add Sidenote to your browser, sign in with Microsoft read-only, open a file, and ask. No Copilot license. Free tier forever, opt-in 7-day Pro trial, no card required.
Delegated read-only Graph access · Works with SharePoint Online & OneDrive