Capture & reading

Everything you drag, paste or drop into a note can do one of two things. It can become part of your knowledge — its text extracted, searchable, and woven into your Knowledge Graph so the people, projects and ideas inside it connect to the rest of your vault. Or it can simply live as an attachment: there when you need it, but out of the way of your thinking. You decide per item with a small brain toggle, and you can change your mind at any time.

Files as knowledge

Drop a file straight onto a note, or use the /files block and its folder dropzone to pull in a whole folder at once. Nomima copies each file into your vault, then reads the text inside it — PDFs, documents, slides, spreadsheets, and more.

By default, that extracted text is folded into your knowledge: the file shows up in full-text search, its entities light up in the Knowledge Graph, and it connects to related notes automatically. If you'd rather a file just sit there as a plain attachment, flip its brain toggle off — it stays fully usable, but its contents stop feeding search and the graph. Toggle it back on whenever you want it to rejoin the conversation.

• Attached vs. part of knowledge — every file carries this state on its pill, so you always know at a glance whether it's contributing to your vault or simply parked there.
• Open it in place — PDFs open in a clean in-app viewer, so you can read without launching another app. Any file can also be opened in its default app in one click.

Tip: the brain toggle is per file, so you can keep the signed contract as a quiet attachment while letting the research report you dropped next to it enrich your whole vault.

Bookmark a web page

To save a web page, add a bookmark block — type /bookmark (it's the “Embed / Bookmark / Video” block) and paste or type the URL into it. The bookmark card appears right away — you don't wait around. It shows the URL immediately, and Nomima fetches the page in the background, filling in the title, description and details as they arrive.

While it's at it, Nomima pulls the page's readable article text and, by default, folds it into your knowledge — same brain toggle as files, so you can opt any bookmark out and keep it as a plain link. This is where Nomima shines for research: the actual words of every page you save sit together in one searchable place, connected to everything else you're thinking about.

Read it here

Any bookmark whose article Nomima could parse gets a Read button. Click it and the page opens in a clean, distraction-free reader right inside the app — real structure preserved (headings, links, lists, quotes), none of the ads, popups or clutter of the open web. It's private, too: images are stripped, so nothing phones home while you read. If a page can't be parsed into an article, the reader falls back gracefully rather than showing you a broken view.

Some pages you want to see live and whole — a dashboard, an interactive tool, a site that refuses to be simplified. That's what Pop out is for: it opens the real page in a floating web-view window that works for any site, even ones that normally refuse to be embedded. Keep it on top beside your notes while you write.

Watch videos inline

Paste a YouTube link and it plays inside Nomima, not off in your browser. Nomima remembers where you stopped, so a progress bar sits under each video with Resume and Start over — pick up exactly where you left off, days later.

The best part is that the video follows you. Keep it playing while you scroll down the note or move to another view, and it tucks itself into a small picture-in-picture corner player so you never lose your place. Leave the app entirely and it becomes a native floating mini-player that stays on top of your other apps — with play/pause, volume, and a Back to video button to jump straight home. A paused video politely stays put and won't pop out.

Audio that outlives the app

Those two ways of following you aren't the same thing, and the difference is the whole trick. The corner picture-in-picture lives inside Nomima — it rides along as you scroll a note or hop between views, but it belongs to the app, so it's gone the moment Nomima isn't the window you're looking at. So when you genuinely leave — click into your browser, your terminal, a meeting — a playing video hands off to something sturdier: its own always-on-top window that floats above whatever you do next.

It's deliberately small — a slim bar carrying the video's thumbnail and title, a play/pause button, a volume slider, a Back to video button and a close (✕). The picture keeps playing underneath, but the bar sits over it, so it reads as a tidy audio mini-player rather than a floating video. Drag it anywhere on screen; it stays on top and keeps itself out of your taskbar and app switcher.

The handoff is seamless both directions. The float picks up at the exact second the in-app player reached, and stepping back into Nomima hands it straight back — the docked or corner player resumes from wherever the float got to. Only ever one player holds the audio, so the two never talk over each other. And Back to video does more than raise Nomima: it jumps to the very block the video lives in and re-docks the player right there in the page, still playing, rather than dropping you at a corner window.

Tip: two followers, on purpose. The corner picture-in-picture keeps a video with you inside Nomima as you scroll and navigate; the native floating mini-player keeps its audio going once you've stepped out of the app entirely.

Note: only a playing video floats. Pause it before you switch away and it simply waits in the note — nothing pops out over your other apps.

Note: Vimeo links play inline too, as a simple player — resume and the floating pop-out are YouTube-only for now.

Your privacy stays intact. Text extraction and reading all happen on your Mac; the only thing Nomima ever fetches from the web is the exact page you chose to bookmark. Nothing else is sent anywhere. For the full picture, see Settings & privacy.