Getting started
Concepts
Ounie turns everything you save into a connected, citable wiki you can ask. A few ideas explain how the whole thing fits together.
Brains#
A brain is a knowledge base you own. It holds everything you save on one topic, project, or client, and it answers only from what is inside it. Brains are private by default. You can keep several — one per area of your life or work — or share one publicly when you want others to read and ask it.
Sources#
A source is anything you add to a brain: a file, a web link, a note you type, or a passage you save from a chat. Files and links are fetched and read for you; notes are kept exactly as written. Whatever the kind, the original is preserved — Ounie builds on top of it rather than replacing it.
Synthesis#
When you add a source, Ounie reads it in the background and writes a clean wiki page from it: a clear title, a readable summary, and [[wikilinks]] to the people, places, and ideas it mentions. Those linked ideas become pages of their own, so the more you add, the more your knowledge connects instead of piling up.
Notes are the exception
A note is stored verbatim and skips synthesis — useful when the exact wording matters. Files, links, and saved text are synthesized so they become searchable and citable. Both are fully part of the brain.The wiki#
The wiki is the readable layer of your brain — the synthesized pages and the concept pages that grow between them. You can open any page, follow its links, and edit it by hand if Ounie got something wrong. An edit re-indexes just that page; your original sources are never touched. See Wiki & graph for how it is built.
The knowledge graph#
Every [[wikilink]] is an edge. Together they form a graph you can see and explore — a map of how your ideas relate. It is not decoration: the same links let an answer pull in neighboring pages it would otherwise miss.
Asking#
When you ask a question, Ounie finds the most relevant pages, expands to their linked neighbors, and answers only from that material — citing every page it used. If the answer is not in your brain, it tells you so plainly instead of inventing one. That honest, cited response is what makes a brain trustworthy. Learn more in Asking.
Plans#
Free, Pro, and Team differ in how many brains and sources you can keep, how many questions you can ask per day, and which connectors and developer features are unlocked. See pricing for the current limits.