Open 14 Confluence tabs, ctrl-F through six runbooks.
Ask one question, get one answer, jump to the source line.
Sidenote sits in your browser and answers questions about Confluence pages, runbooks, PRDs — and any PDF, doc, or article you can open. Every answer cites the source passage.
Two retention modes per document, your choice. Store keeps the document indexed for the lifetime of your account so re-opening doesn't re-pay for indexing. Discard purges everything within 24 hours of upload via an hourly background sweep.
All embeddings live in Supabase pgvector in our UK (eu-west-2) region, partitioned per user. Row-level security policies enforce per-account isolation — no two accounts can ever read each other's chunks.
Confluence pages, Notion docs, runbooks, PRDs, PDFs, papers, articles, even Slack canvases — if it loads in your browser, Sidenote can read it.
If you live in your wiki and your browser, you want answers where you’re already reading — not in a separate “research workspace”.
Every answer carries inline N markers. Click one and Sidenote scrolls the page and pulses the exact passage. When the model bookends a topic by quoting first and last sentence, each cited sentence lights up on its own — try 7. If the document doesn’t say it, Sidenote doesn’t either.
Try clicking the chipsSidenote offers two retention modes per document. Store mode keeps the document indexed for the lifetime of your account[1], or until you delete it. Discard mode purges everything within 24 hours of upload[2] via an hourly background sweep.
All embeddings are stored in Supabase pgvector in our UK (eu-west-2) region[3], partitioned per user. Row-level security policies enforce per-account isolation[4] at the database layer — no two accounts can ever read each other’s chunks.
Chat answers stream over server-sent events; every claim is validated server-side against the retrieved passages before it leaves the API. Unsupported claims are dropped automatically[5], and the model’s verbatim quotes are rectified to the chunk’s exact text so citation chips land on the precise passage.
Documents are content-hashed and shared across users, so two people ingesting the same source only pay once for indexing. Re-opening a document from cache is free and doesn’t count against the monthly cap[6], and runs on a separate, more generous hourly bucket.
Sidenote relies on two AI sub-processors[7]. Anthropic provides Claude for chat, summaries, and explanations; Voyage AI provides the embedding engine. Anthropic retains prompts and responses for 30 days under their standard data policy, while Voyage AI does not retain embedding inputs. Both operate under no-training defaults on the API tiers we use[7].
How long do you keep my documents?
Store mode keeps the document while your account is open 1; Discard mode purges within 24 hours of upload2.
Where are embeddings stored, and is my data isolated?
Embeddings live in Supabase pgvector in our UK region 3, isolated per account by row-level security 4.
Can the model invent things the document doesn’t say?
No. Every answer is checked server-side and unsupported claims are dropped before the response leaves the API5.
Will I burn my quota re-opening a document I’ve already ingested?
No — re-opening from cache is free and doesn’t count against the monthly cap6.
Are my chats used to train AI models?
No — both of our AI sub-processors operate under no-training defaults on the API tiers we use7.
Every fast-growing team has the same dirty secret. Twelve thousand pages, half of them stale, the same five answers re-asked in standup every week. Sidenote doesn’t replace your wiki — it teaches it to answer. See the full pitch for Confluence →
Sidenote ingests the page you’re on, plus every other page you’ve opened. Ask it anything across the lot. Citations scroll you to the exact passage in the exact doc, so you can verify before you ship.
Open 14 Confluence tabs, ctrl-F through six runbooks.
Ask one question, get one answer, jump to the source line.
New engineer pings the team channel: “where do we deploy hotfixes?”
New engineer asks the wiki. The wiki answers. The team is at lunch.
Three pages disagree on retention. Which is current?
Sidenote surfaces the disagreement and lets you verify each claim.
A Confluence runbook, a PDF you just downloaded, an arXiv paper, a long Substack — Sidenote sits in the side-panel of every tab.
We extract, chunk, and embed the page in seconds. Re-opening the same doc is free — re-ingest from cache, no cap hit.
Summarise, chat, explain, build a glossary. Every claim links to the exact passage — click and the document scrolls and pulses.
Same product, different roles. The thing in common: you’re tired of re-reading the same documents to find one paragraph.
Runbooks, RFCs, on-call playbooks, postmortems. Ask the wiki what we did last time — get the link to the doc that says so.
PRDs, research transcripts, competitive notes. Synthesise across twenty docs without losing the receipts.
Knowledge-base articles, escalation runbooks, prior tickets. Get the answer with the source citation, ready to paste.
Policy docs, vendor contracts, compliance evidence. Quote the exact clause; never guess at it.
Long PDFs, arXiv papers, lit reviews. Pull supporting passages straight into your notes.
Substacks, Medium long-reads, that 14,000-word Stratechery post. Sidenote works on whatever loads in your browser.
NotebookLM is a research workspace you upload sources into. Sidenote lives on the page you're reading. We optimise for one thing: in-browser, with citations that scroll the source. We don't do audio overviews; we do “click this chip, see the paragraph”.
Yes. Confluence reads through the Chrome extension on the page you can already see — no integration to set up, no admin install, no SSO scopes to grant, and your wiki content goes through your own account, not a shared pipeline. Notion, Google Docs, Slack canvases, and SharePoint & OneDrive connect through each provider's official API with read-only access to the documents you choose to open, again through your own account. SharePoint and OneDrive sign in with Microsoft (delegated, read-only Graph scopes); on locked-down Microsoft 365 tenants a one-time admin approval may be needed.
No. Anthropic and Voyage AI run with no-training defaults on the API tier we use, and we never fine-tune models on user content. Your documents are used only to answer your own questions.
Web articles (Readability extraction) and browser-rendered PDFs work today, alongside dedicated integrations for Confluence, Notion, Google Docs, Slack canvases, and SharePoint & OneDrive. For everything else, drop a PDF, DOCX, PPTX, TXT, or MD file onto the side-panel and Sidenote ingests it the same way. Uploads chat headlessly — citation chips highlight passages in the upload's text rather than scrolling a tab you don't have.
Every answer is checked server-side against the retrieved passages before it leaves the API. If a claim has no source, the chip is dropped — you only ever see citations the model could actually back up. Click a chip and Sidenote scrolls the document to the exact passage and pulses it in amber. When the model bookends a multi-sentence topic by quoting first and last sentence, each cited sentence is highlighted on its own — the gap in the middle stays plain, so you see exactly what was used to ground the answer.
Chat runs on Anthropic Claude — Sonnet on Pro for fast multi-doc chat, Opus on Pro+ and Pro Max for sharper reasoning across long, dense docs. Chunk summaries and glossaries use Claude Haiku. Embeddings come from Voyage AI's voyage-3. We pick the model so you don't have to.
Data lives in Supabase's eu-west-2 (UK) region, encrypted at rest, with row-level security so no two accounts can read each other's chunks. Store mode keeps the document for the lifetime of your account, or until you delete it. Discard mode purges the document — including its chunks and any orphaned shared content — within 24 hours of upload via an hourly background sweep.
Sign up with email, click the magic link, and the 7-day Pro trial starts — no card required. Trial caps are 3 documents, 10 explanations, 3 glossary builds, and 10 chat turns across the week. We only ask for a card when you convert. After that, one click in the dashboard opens the Stripe Customer Portal — cancel, change plans, or update your payment method any time. You keep Pro access until the end of the current billing period.
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