Using Sidenote

Citations

Every answer Sidenote gives — chat, summaries, explanations — carries numbered citation chips. Click a chip and Sidenote scrolls the live document to the exact passage and pulses it in amber, in the tab you were already reading. When an answer draws on more than one sentence, each cited sentence is highlighted on its own and the unused middle stays plain.

Citations are validated server-side before you see them: each quote is matched against the passages actually retrieved from your document, and any claim that can't be matched has its citation dropped rather than invented. For uploaded files there's no browser tab to scroll, so chips highlight the passage in the upload's text inside the panel instead. See the citations feature page for the full story, or troubleshooting for why an answer might arrive uncited.

Collections

Collections let you chat, summarise and build glossaries across several documents at once, with a citation pointing at whichever document each claim came from. Build one from the Collections panel in the sidebar, then load it like a document.

Collections are a paid feature (included in the free 7-day Pro trial). Size caps by plan: 3 documents on trial, 5 on Pro, 10 on Pro+, and 25 on Pro Max — see pricing.

Glossary

The Glossary tab builds a glossary of the key terms in a document — or across a whole Collection — with each definition grounded in the source and cited. Click a term's citation to jump to where it's defined or used. Glossary builds count against your plan's monthly allowance (see usage limits).

Find in document

The Find tab searches the loaded document by meaning, not just exact words. Type what you're looking for and matching passages appear as you type; click a match to jump the document there with a persistent highlight, and click it again to clear the highlight. It's the fast way to locate a clause, figure or claim in a long document without guessing the exact phrasing Ctrl-F needs.

Export

The package icon on the loaded-document bar (and next to each library entry) exports a “document pack”: every summary length you've generated, the glossary if you've built one, and your chat threads for that document, assembled into a single file. Formats: Markdown, HTML, plain text, a printable page (for Save as PDF), or copy as rich text for pasting into a doc.

Note:exports only include what you've already generated — an export never spends an AI call. Sections you haven't generated are simply omitted.