Can I edit the notes?

Yes. Notes are plain Markdown files you own and edit freely. The derived document from each PDF stays read-only, and your own notes live alongside it — linking into it wherever you cite.

Do the notes work with tools like Obsidian?

Notes are plain Markdown with wiki-style links, stored in an ordinary folder structure. You can copy them out and open them in Obsidian or any Markdown editor — there is no proprietary note format.

How do citations in notes work?

A citation in a note is a Markdown link to one passage in the source: a section, a paragraph, or, with the default Docling extractor, a table row. Opening it highlights that passage, and for a PDF shows the original page beside it. The in-app agent can write these links when it saves a note for you.

Can I take notes across many PDFs at once?

Yes. A Space holds a whole folder tree of documents, and notes can link across all of them. Search covers your notes and your sources together, so a half-remembered idea is findable whether you wrote it or read it.

Turn PDFs into notes that cite their source

Notes taken from a PDF usually lose the trail back: two weeks later you have a claim in your notes and no idea which page — or which paper — it came from. Mempipe turns PDFs into structured Markdown you can read and quote in your own notes, where a citation opens the exact source location.

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From research paper to working notes

Drop a paper, report, or contract into a Space and Mempipe extracts it into a readable, structured document — headings, paragraphs, and tables as Markdown, each block anchored to its page in the PDF. From there, note-taking works the way it should:

→Read in a clean reading view instead of squinting at a two-column PDF layout.
→Write notes as plain Markdown files that link to documents and to each other with wiki-style links.
→Keep excerpts cited. A citation in your notes points to the section or paragraph it came from, or to the table row with the default extractor. Open the citation to see that passage highlighted, with the original PDF page beside it.

Notes you can trust months later

The value of a note is what it lets you do later: defend a claim, re-check a number, pick up a thread. That only works if the note carries its evidence with it. Mempipe notes cite source-mapped documents, so a valid citation answers “where did this come from?” in one click: the exact passage, highlighted, with its page in the PDF beside it.

And because notes and sources live in the same searchable Space, your future self — or your AI agent — can find both. Ask a question and the answer can draw on your notes and the underlying documents together, with citations to each.

Plain Markdown, not a note silo

Notes apps have a habit of becoming one-way doors. Mempipe notes are ordinary Markdown files in an ordinary folder tree — the same open-format substrate as everything else in a Space. Copy them out and they open in any Markdown editor, though a citation opens its passage only in Mempipe. What Mempipe adds — search, citations, grounded Q&A, agent access — is layered on top of your files, never baked into a format you can’t leave.

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Frequently asked questions

Can I edit the notes?: Yes. Notes are plain Markdown files you own and edit freely. The derived document from each PDF stays read-only, and your own notes live alongside it — linking into it wherever you cite.
Do the notes work with tools like Obsidian?: Notes are plain Markdown with wiki-style links, stored in an ordinary folder structure. You can copy them out and open them in Obsidian or any Markdown editor — there is no proprietary note format.
How do citations in notes work?: A citation in a note is a Markdown link to one passage in the source: a section, a paragraph, or, with the default Docling extractor, a table row. Opening it highlights that passage, and for a PDF shows the original page beside it. The in-app agent can write these links when it saves a note for you.
Can I take notes across many PDFs at once?: Yes. A Space holds a whole folder tree of documents, and notes can link across all of them. Search covers your notes and your sources together, so a half-remembered idea is findable whether you wrote it or read it.

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