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How SumizAI actually works
No roadmap fiction and no borrowed buzzwords — every answer below describes behaviour that is in the application today: how a chat answer becomes a note, how the table of contents files it, what the duplicate check really measures, and what lands on your disk.
Why SumizAI is different from every other note editor
Every other editor hands you a blank page and wishes you luck. SumizAI starts from an answer you already decided was worth keeping.
9 questions · 6 min read Read the answers → Getting startedHow to work with SumizAI day to day
Create a vault, paste a key, ask a question. Everything after that is the app's job — here is the rhythm that makes it pay off.
9 questions · 5 min read Read the answers → ConceptsWhat a vault is, and why it is a boundary
A folder decides where a file sits. A vault decides what the model is allowed to know when it answers you.
8 questions · 4 min read Read the answers → Under the hoodHow a chat answer becomes a note
Four stages run between the last token of an answer and the file on your disk. Here is each one, and what it decides.
8 questions · 4 min read Read the answers → Under the hoodHow the table of contents files your notes
Filing is the part everyone abandons after three weeks. This is how it happens without you.
8 questions · 4 min read Read the answers → Under the hoodDuplicates, thresholds and the merge
The fourth note about the same idea is how knowledge bases die. Here is the check that runs before one is written.
8 questions · 4 min read Read the answers → Under the hoodLinks between notes, and what links back
Not a Related section at the bottom. A sentence that happens to contain a link — to a file that definitely exists.
8 questions · 4 min read Read the answers → Under the hoodSearch that reads the whole note
Most note search reads titles. This one reads the sentence you half-remember from the conversation that produced the note.
8 questions · 4 min read Read the answers → Your dataYour files: Markdown, on your disk
A folder you picked, files you can read, and a rule that settles every argument: in a conflict, the file wins.
8 questions · 4 min read Read the answers → AI modelsSeven providers, your own key
Bring your own key to one of seven providers. The model list comes from the provider, not from a catalogue that goes stale.
8 questions · 4 min read Read the answers → OutputExporting a vault to PDF and PowerPoint
The structure was decided forty conversations ago. Exporting is where that finally pays.
8 questions · 3 min read Read the answers → ComparisonSumizAI compared with Notion, Obsidian and a chat window
Three tools that get named in the same sentence and solve three different problems. Including when not to use this one.
8 questions · 4 min read Read the answers → Use casesSumizAI for students and researchers
A semester of asking questions turns into a document. The trick is asking them in a way that survives being reread in June.
8 questions · 4 min read Read the answers → Use casesSumizAI for developers
Six months later, "why did we do it this way?" has an answer instead of a guess.
8 questions · 3 min read Read the answers → PricingWhat one dollar a month actually buys
One plan, one price, no feature held back for a higher tier — and a clear answer to what happens if you stop paying.
8 questions · 4 min read Read the answers →