a chatasks your notes; under each answer, the notes it read
Discoveryour feeds read into stories; ask about one, or save it to the Inbox as a note
Explorea map of your notes: similar notes sit close, links draw lines
Memorizequestions on your notes; what you miss comes back. Study plans are made and kept here
Calendarevents, deadlines, and the day each study plan is due; click or drag an empty time to add an event
My Wikisyour wikis, each a folder of your vault, Off, Public or Private; Publish puts one out, Ask to list offers it to everyone once it is reviewed, Private sends it to the readers you name
Examinethe vault's health: its shape, what to fix, what changed
a new notethe chat reads it and Explore draws it at once. It never changes a plan, and Memorize suggests it only when a plan covers it, or when you have no plan yet
keyboard
↵send the message
⇧ ↵new line instead of sending
/open the command palette, then ↑↓ to pick
alt nwrite a note
ctrl ffind in the note you are writing
escclose the note drawer or an open panel
ctrl ,settings
?this panel, from anywhere you are not typing
the vault
drop a fileanywhere on the window: it joins the chat, and its "add to vault" copies it into Inbox/; the vault's + puts files and folders at the top of the vault, and a link to a web page in Inbox/
downloadthe SILICA menu downloads the whole vault as a zip, or only the notes Silica added since the last download, in one folder to put at the top of your Obsidian vault
New chatat the top of the sidebar starts one; the old one stays in Chats
every writegets a card in the transcript with its own revert
Notes, Chatsthe sidebar shows one of its two lists; the switch above them picks it, and the filter reads both
the micdictates into the message; on your own machine it needs a transcription endpoint, set in settings
explore
3Dspatial layout of the whole vault; a node names itself when you hover it
2Da map of the areas: each note owns the ground nearest it, and zooming in names the sub-areas, then the notes; a note's links show when you point at it
the tabstop of explore: Graph and Path draw the links (a click on a note in the Graph lays it out as its map), Folders, Areas and Read read the shape. The line under them is the key, and on the graph the panel at the right says how to read it
working
dictation is off
It needs a transcriber on this machine. The simplest runs inside silica, about 480 MB downloaded on first use:
pip install 'silica-agent[stt]'
Or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint; with the second line set, silica starts it on the next launch:
The browser's own recognizer also takes dictation: settings, Language, browser speech.
Settings
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