I found Unriddle a few weeks ago because I saw this post. A note app better than
Obsidian or Roam? That sounds intriguing. So I gave it a try. While it might not be
better than Obsidian or Roam yet, I can see a lot of potential. It's a very new product and
naturally there are some rough edges. But it has some unique features that I really like.
In a nutshell, Unriddle is a note app that links ideas and notes automatically. It can
do that because it's powered by GPT-4. What it means is that, for example, you
can start writing about a topic and then Unriddle will start suggesting related ideas and notes you
have in your knowledge base. If I'm writing about controlling your glucose levels, it finds relevant
things from all of the files and notes I have. This means that 1) you don't have to manually
link everything with double square brackets like you do in other note apps which can take lots of
time. This is great because a common issue with many modern note apps is that you need to remember
to link things which can be a bit tedious. And 2), when you're writing something,
you don't have to manually find resources for the topic because Unriddle does this automatically.
This is all great, but it's not perfect. For example, here I'm writing about how
fasting can help control glucose levels. Even though I do have some documents about fasting,
it doesn't seem to recognise them as being relevant to the topic which is
strange. Maybe it needs some time to process. Anyway, once you get a bunch of suggestions,
you can just click on them to read the content. On the left side,
you have the document. In the middle, you have a ChatGPT-like interface where you can ask AI
anything about the document as well as unrelated things. Then on the right, you have your note.
You can probably guess how to use it. You can choose to read the document on your own,
but if you're tired of reading it or have specific questions or things you need to know, you can
ask AI. A nice thing is that when you upload a document, it generates a list of questions you can
ask. So you can pick one from there or type your own question. So if you have a pile of articles
to go through, this can save you tons of time. And its responses come with references too so
you know where exactly the information came from. It's very important especially for
students and researchers who need to cite sources. In fact, Unriddle seems to be
designed mostly for students and researchers. But I think everyone can benefit from this too.
Using this AI chatbot, you can learn and write faster. If you highlight your text,
it also has options to improve your writing, expand or explain.
But also you can type your own prompt too. So far so good, right? But here's the catch.
You can upload only PDF files - nothing else. Not even Markdown. I guess this is perfectly
fine from students and academics' points of view because they're going to be reading
lots of research papers which are mostly in PDF format. But it might be frustrating for
people who mostly write in Markdown because they cannot upload their work directly.
Also if you want to upload a webpage or an article, you have to save it as PDF
first and then upload it which is not really convenient. Once it's uploaded, it works really
well and I do enjoy using it. But it'd be a lie if I said I didn't have any complaints.
It does have a chrome extension, and I was hoping I could use it to directly import
an article or webpage, but for now it can only summarise the current webpage you're looking at,
but there are lots of tools like that already. I know it's still a work in progress so I hope
they will improve this browser extension to make it easier to import things.
In the meantime, you can just use your browser's Print option to convert any webpage to PDF and
then upload it. If you read only academic articles, this won't be a problem though.
A fun thing I did was that I exported all of my reading highlights from Readwise as a CSV file,
convert it to PDF in Google Sheets, then upload it to Unriddle. Now I can
ask AI anything about books, articles I read before and podcasts I listened to,
which is actually pretty useful. It might sound cumbersome,
but you can do this in just 5 minutes, so give it a try if you're interested.
Unriddle may not have the most beautiful UI or as many features as other note apps, but I think it's
a really promising product that has the potential to be many people's favourite note app. IF there's
going to be markdown support and a better browser extension, I can see lots of people switching
to it. But even without those, it's already a great tool if you're a student or a researcher.
But it might be hard for students to afford this tool because it costs at least $16 a month,
which isn't much more expensive than other AI tools. Still, it might be a lot for students.
I guess Mem would be a slightly cheaper alternative that has similar features.
But I feel Mem is more like a team collaboration tool whereas Unriddle is more for individual use
like learning and writing. Anyway, you should give them both a try because they are great AI tools.
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