Synthesis

Let your notes combine themselves. Pick several pages and your local model reads them and writes a brand-new note that genuinely weaves them together — not a summary of each, but a synthesis across them, with every claim traced back to the page it came from. It's built for research and thinking: drop in five papers, get one connected note you can build on. Like the rest of MojoPad's AI, it runs entirely on your Mac (see Local AI).

Synthesize some notes

1. Pick the notes — three ways in:
   • In the Pages palette, turn on Select, tick two or more pages, and click ✦ Synthesize….
   • From anywhere, open the command palette (⇧⌘P) and run Synthesize Notes…, then choose the pages in the picker.
   • Right-click a collection in the sidebar and choose ✦ Synthesize these notes to fold a whole folder together.
2. Choose a lens — how the model should read them (below), an interpretive or aggregative stance, and, if you like, a focus to steer it ("for a literature review", "what this means for onboarding").
3. Watch it write — the draft streams into a preview you can Cancel anytime. When it's done, the synthesis is saved as a new page and opens.

Six lenses

• Thematic — organizes the sources around the ideas they share.
• Comparative — sets them side by side, with a dedicated section on where they disagree.
• Chronological — tells the story over time (and orders the sources oldest-to-newest when they carry a Year property).
• By method — groups them by how the work was done.
• By theoretical frame — groups them by the lens each one argues from.
• Find the gap — maps what the sources, taken together, leave unanswered: open questions, untested claims, unexplored contexts.

What you get back

A new page, titled by the model, that reads as one piece — and stays honest about where it came from:

• Cited as it goes. Every claim names its source inline, by page name — so the citations auto-link straight back to your notes, with a Sources section listing them all.
• Wired into the graph. The synthesis links to each source page, so it shows up in their backlinks and on the graph as a hub.
• Marked as a synthesis. A ❖ marker appears beside it in the page list and tabs, and the Info palette records how it was made — the model, the lens, the stance, and the source pages.

Re-cast it anytime. Open a synthesis note's Info palette and click ↻ Re-synthesize… to run the same sources through a different lens — compare a thematic and a comparative take on the same five papers without re-picking anything.

It reads the whole note. Long pages are read in full (split into parts behind the scenes), so a synthesis over book-length sources still draws on all of them — which means a big one can take a minute or two on a local model. And like all of MojoPad's AI, it only ever sees the pages you chose: nothing leaves your Mac.