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Synthesis

Pro Feature

Turn your scattered bookmarks into cohesive, structured research reports.

Topic-Based Synthesis

While Chat is great for quick Q&A, Synthesis is designed for deep research. Type a topic or a phrase like "summarize what I know about LLMs" into the Omnibar and press Synthesize. Relink finds up to 8 of the most relevant articles in your archive and generates a structured report — then opens it directly in the Chat interface so you can continue the conversation.

How it works

  1. You type a topic in the Omnibar and click Synthesize.
  2. A new conversation is created and you are navigated to /dashboard/chat/:id.
  3. The topic is embedded via OpenAI and the top 8 matches (min similarity 0.3) are retrieved.
  4. A structured context prompt is built from the TL;DRs, insights, highlights, and raw text of all sources.
  5. The LLM streams a strictly formatted markdown report directly into the chat thread.
  6. You can then ask follow-up questions — the synthesis result stays as conversation history.
Trigger phrases — the Omnibar auto-detects synthesis intent for phrases like: summarize, synthesize, what do I know about…, overview of…, give me a summary of…. These phrases are stripped from the topic before synthesis begins.

Structured Markdown Output

To ensure consistency and quality, the LLM is prompted to strictly adhere to four markdown headers. The dashboard UI parses these headers in real-time as the stream arrives to render distinct UI sections.

Overview

A 2–3 sentence executive summary of the consensus across the retrieved articles.

Key Themes

3–5 bullet points organizing the information categorically. Every bullet point is required to contain an inline citation pointing to the source it was derived from.

Notable Quotes

The most impactful verbatim quotes from the authors, properly cited.

Gaps & What to Explore Next

Relink analyzes the articles and identifies questions that remain unanswered by the current archive context.

Error Handling

If Relink cannot find at least 2 highly relevant articles related to your topic in your personal database, the synthesis will safely abort and prompt you to save more related articles first. It will not attempt to hallucinate a report without source material.