Books and PDFs
A vault holds more than notes. PDFs and EPUBs sitting in the folder are read as documents: their text is searched along with everything else, and a result opens the book at the page the words are on.
Reading one
Section titled “Reading one”Open a document in a tab as you would a note. It opens at the page a search sent you to, and the passage that matched is shown where it stands on the page — in the book, not lifted out of it.
Page numbers are positions in the file. An EPUB has no pages of its own, so where the file carries the page breaks of the printed edition it was set from, those are the names its pages have.
The controls float over the page rather than taking a strip of the window for themselves: back and forward a page, the number of the page you are on — type another and press Enter to go there — and closer and further. The page starts at the size that fits the room, each press draws it a quarter larger, and six times that is as close as it goes.
Scanned books
Section titled “Scanned books”A book that is scans of paper carries no text to read. Ask the agent to read it, and the pages are read here on your machine: nothing is uploaded, no account is involved.
It runs behind the window and shows its progress in the corner. The book answers searches over the pages already read while the rest are still being read, so a long book becomes useful before it is finished.
What comes out is kept inside the vault’s own .numen/ folder, named after the bytes of the
document. Move or rename the book and its reading follows it; keep two copies of the same book
in a vault and they share one reading.
Quoting into a note
Section titled “Quoting into a note”The agent can read a run of a document’s text and write it into a note. It can also put a passage in front of you — the document opens at that page, at the words in question.