Meet commonplot
commonplot brings reading, saving, AI research, and writing together. Learn how Notebooks, saved resources, and the AI assistant fit together.
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Create your first notebook, add sources, and have AI write a cited document.
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commonplot is a reading and research tool. Read curated articles, papers, videos, and posts in Discover, save what matters, collect it in a notebook, and ask AI to answer questions, write documents, or make audio overviews from those sources.
It is more than a read-later list and more than an AI chat. The point of commonplot is that what you read and save stays useful for your next research or writing project.
A typical workflow
Read in Discover → Save resources → Add them to a notebook
→ Summarize, compare, and research with AI → Write a document or audio overview → Choose whether to publishYou can browse Discover without signing in. Sign in to save content, create notebooks, use AI, and write documents.
Core concepts
| Name | What it is | When to use it |
|---|---|---|
| Resource | An article, paper, video, post, PDF, or image | Anything you want to read, keep, or give to AI |
| Saved resources | Everything you save, listed on your profile | Read later and long-term saving |
| Notebook | A topic or research project holding resources, documents, and AI chats | When you research, organize, or produce something about one topic |
| Document | Long-form writing by you or AI inside a notebook | Research notes, reports, articles |
| Library | PDFs and images you upload, generated audio, and chat attachments | Managing files and storage |
A notebook can be public or private. Public notebooks appear on your profile, which suits a shared reading list. Private notebooks are visible only to you, which suits work in progress.
What commonplot can do for you
- Read blogs, news, X posts, Hacker News threads, YouTube videos, and academic papers in one place.
- Paste links or upload PDFs and images to get automatic summaries and full-text translation.
- Keep everything one topic needs together in a notebook.
- Ask AI to answer and compare from the sources you choose, with citations.
- Let AI draft and edit documents, with version history.
- Turn a notebook into a two-host audio overview.
- Save reads recommended in ChatGPT or Claude, and ask about your saves there or in Hermes Agent.
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