Facts, sources, and citations

Facts

A fact is one short, self-contained statement:

Allergic to shellfish. Ships product updates on Fridays. Prefers async over meetings.

Facts are best for preferences, decisions, and details. Short notes and Q&A captures become facts. They are instantly searchable and easy to correct.

Phrase important facts the way you would want them repeated. The AI tends to echo your wording.

Sources

A source is longer material: an article, a transcript, a PDF, a pasted document. Mindola splits it into chunks, indexes them, and can quote them back with a citation that links to the exact spot. Links, files, audio, images, and long pasted text become sources.

Which one you get

It comes down to length. A brief note becomes a fact; anything substantial becomes a source. The small confirmation message that appears after you capture tells you which happened.

Reach for a fact when you want the AI to know something, like a rule, a preference, or a name. Reach for a source when you want the AI to be able to reference something: a document it can search and quote. See Adding knowledge for how to capture both.

Grounded, not guessed

When you ask a question, Mindola pulls the most relevant facts and source chunks from your knowledge and answers from those. It is not guessing or making loose connections; it is reading your brain.

Citations

When an answer leans on a source, it shows a citation. Click it to jump to the exact chunk it used, so you can check the original yourself. This is what makes a shared lens trustworthy: visitors can see the answer is real, not invented.

When it doesn’t know

If your knowledge does not cover something, Mindola says so plainly instead of making it up. That is by design. A second brain you can’t trust is not worth sharing.

If you expected an answer and did not get one, the knowledge probably is not captured yet, or it lives in a space your current view or lens can’t see.

Try this

After a big document upload, ask a question only that document could answer, then click the citation to confirm it indexed correctly.