Working with topics

A topic is one reusable piece of knowledge — the unit everything else is built from. Topics live inside knowledge bases, get vectored the moment they're saved, and are cited by name when a chat draws on them.

Where topics come from

Five ways in: import a file (documents, PDFs), capture a page with the browser helper, pull a transcript from a video, promote a chat or a chat answer, or just write a note. Whatever the source, the result is the same shape: a markdown body with provenance attached, indexed into its KB.

Images are vectored too

When you import a document, Om-E doesn't stop at the text. The images inside — diagrams, screenshots, figures — are embedded into the same vector store as the words. Ask about "the network diagram" and the diagram itself surfaces, through the same search that finds sentences. Architecture documents, slide exports and illustrated guides keep their full value.

Transcripts from video

Search YouTube from a chat and the results come back as a numbered list. Reply with the numbers you want and Om-E opens those videos, pulls their transcripts, converts everything — images included — and saves each one as a clean markdown topic, vectored and searchable. A conference talk becomes a source you can cite in the same afternoon.

Format topics

A topic doesn't have to hold knowledge — it can hold instructions about output. Save a topic that defines how you want information presented (structure, headings, tone, markup) and attach it to a chat: answers arrive in your format. One topic, and every report comes out house-style.

Organising the library

Topics move by drag: reorder them inside a knowledge base or drag them into a different KB as the work evolves. Rename and edit freely — the index keeps up.

Sharing topics and KBs

Any topic exports as clean HTML or PDF. HTML round-trips: send it to a teammate, they import it, and you're both working from the same source. PDF is for the world that reads but doesn't import — clients, reviews, records. Whole knowledge bases export too: every topic in a browsable HTML site with an index. Knowledge sharing without a platform in between — files you own, passed hand to hand.

Provenance

Every topic keeps its origin: the source URL or file, and the capture date. Citations point back to it, so anything a topic contributes to an answer can be checked at the source.

Using topics in chats

Attach a topic for retrieval or load it whole into context — the two gears are covered in Working with chats.